The Man Who Loved/ The Woman Who Loved

The Woman Who Loved Writing

12 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas

$300.00

from the series, "The Man Who Loved/ The Woman Who Loved"

The first piece in the series involving, "writng" depicted a man who is leaping into the air, perhaps celebrating by throwing the finished piece into the air and being celebratory, he may have come to a realization what he is working on isn't working and is tossing it to be carried off by the winds or maybe he is trying to grab the initial beginnings of an idea out of the air. With this piece I wanted to keep those many possibilities alive, are the birds in service of the author ? Are they plucking the papers away from her ? Perhaps they represent that chaos in the mind when ideas compete.

A.S Hahn

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I Just can't stop painting this kid.

top, The Boy Who Loved the Water III, The Boy Who Loved the Water II

12 x 12 inches, acyrlic on canvas

$140.00

I am still strangely fixated on this figure in the water, I think of my nephews at our cottage, myself spending my young summers in Muskoka and Hastings. I have powerful associations with the water, from almost drowning while sailing to the fact I swim beneath it more comfortably than above. I can smell that life jacket, I wore one identical to it when I was that age, with a chubby little belly, pushing against the too tight ropes. I see my brother and I leaving the water to get shelter in the boathouse before a storm hits.

I'd like you to tell me what you see.

A.S.Hahn
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Canadian Girl

Canadian Girl

12 x12 inches, acrylic on canvas

commission

I would like to thank T.Pelletier for sending this to me via Fb, these are her thoughts on,"What is a Canadian Girl?".

"A Canadian Girl is proud to be vulnerable.For if there is one single thing she feels certain about,it is the certaintly of uncertainty.

A Canadian Girl seeks comfort in change.For she knows to stay stagnant would deny her of her independance.

A Canadian Girl is a dreamer.For she understands the nature of her restlessness.

A Canadian Girl wanders.For she has learned that taking risks satisfies her wonderous yearnings.

A Canadian Girl reaches out.For it is in her nature to nurture.

A Canadian Girl politely declines her label.For a branding would undermine her integrity.

A Canadian Girl picks up a 'Timmies' on her way over.For she knew that you were a 'double double' the first day you met.

A Canadian Girl will replace her bedhead with her multi coloured toque.For she'd prefer to share a pint and a smile than time in the mirror.

A Canadian Girl knows that carpets will get dirty...and will also get you down a snowy hillside.For she is playfully realistic.

A Canadian Girl will grasp a paintbrush in one hand and a hammer in the other.For her multi-culturalism has lead to great multi-tasking.

A Canadian Girl appreciates the 'little' things.For it is her sensitivity which breeds her insightfulness.

This woman loves her country and all within it .

For growing up a Canadian Girl...She is Free."

To commission a Canadian Girl of your own, contact me here,

A.S.Hahn

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Four People with Hammers

Four People with Hammers

series of four, 12 x16 inches ea. acrylic on canvas

$250.00 each, set of four $800.00

I had originally thought of doing a "Four Seasons" piece, something that I've been struggling with for some time, I believe one of the "process" labels goes to an entry where I was designing a "Four Seasons" series, anyways, it never succeeds. Instead I thought just doing some tone work with linking clouds would be enough and of course to give everyone a hammer.

I think as a foursome they look incredible together either in a line, or perhaps hung two above, two below.

A.S.Hahn

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The Man Who Loved...vertical

The Man Who Loved Writing

12 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas

$300.00

from the series, "The Man/ The Woman Who Loved"

When I was buying the loads and loads of 12 x 12's I also purchased other variant 12 x sizes (16, 24 etc.) I had planned on using them for horizontal triptychs, of course that still will happen but I thought I would, for a little while at least move into a more vertical format and see what I could do with that. Friends have asked me to design a 12 x 36 or 18 x 36 piece for their house and I hadn't come up with anything, working in this format should help with that conundrum (we hope).

A.S.H

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The Woman Who loved....

The Woman Who Loved Her Piano II

12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas

SOLD

available by contacting me

madcraftshoppe@live.com

enjoy the weather,

A.S.Hahn

News, Announcements, links etc.

We are currently exhibiting some work at Fleur de Lis Interior Design which is located at 294 Eglinton West, near Avenue road, if the name is familiar it is the firm owned by Peter Lunney and Eric McClelland whose work and advice frequently appear on City Line.

Here is a link to their site

http://www.fleurdelis.ca/

Here's a link to a "view it.ca" site that features one of my murals as a selling point to rent the apartment, who knew. Thanks to Sarah Uyede for the link

http://www.viewit.ca/vwExpandView.aspx?ViT=54694

A.S Hahn

more to come

The Man Who Loved...cont'd

The Boy Who Loved Airplanes

12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas

$140.00

It's been a marathon day in the studio, actually the entire weekend has been wonderful. Lots of work coming quickly and feeling great as I lay it in, the being said I do have to tweak the head on this guy a little bit, but no big deal. There is also a second, "Man Who Loved Guitars" that I thought I could finish but his suit and pose was driving me to distraction and a very complicated 12 x 36 with many figures that is going to take some time. Grey suits, summer weight seem to be on my mind, it was one thing I wanted to buy for myself this summer, a nice weight summer suit, with beige shoes, but that money has since been allocated to other purchases, and this summer has been the dogs breakfast, so maybe next year.

I've been taking my breaks and going through a recent purchase which collects all of Norman Rockwell's covers for the Saturday Evening Post and looking through his sketches, photos of his second studio and getting into his work, not for the subject but I do dress my figures in 30's - 4o's styled clothes for the most part. Of course I gasp at the detail in the work, but consisitently remind myself that the average size of his work was around 48 x 36 inches, and he had lots of room to paint every dint and scuff on a leather shoe, where the average size of a man's head in my paintings is 1 inch. So maybe I'm asking for some sympathy after these long days.

Tuesday, I'll have some more news and info about where you can see some work in Toronto.

enjoy the storm,

A.S.H

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The Man Who Loved/ The Woman Who Loved

The Boy Who Loved the Water,

The Woman Who Loved Her Piano,

The Man Who Loved Guitars SOLD

each image is 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas

$140.00

This titles for this series occurred to me awhile ago, prior to the Desolation Row project, it doesn't take much to get me started when I want to paint, I do get stuck sometimes but when I ran into the concept of "The Man who loved...." or "The Woman who loved..." I just started writing down titles, I was sitting on the wonderful back patio at the Press Club surrounded by grape vines and a pear tree and I thought, "I love this...I love these grape vines..." and that was all it took.

I may be posting one or two (perhaps three) by the end of the day, I began working on this last week and then each day noodle around and let the images come out, I did do a prelim for the Guitar series but after that it was just research to find the right guitar.

If you've been familiar with my work since I began this blog you'll recognize the boy in the lifejacket as he was part of my visual vocabulary about four years ago and featured prominently in several paintings, I thought I'd bring him back to participate in these paintings.

I'll be adding a couple more links this week, keep an eye out for them, great blog sites to follow with your morning coffee.

best,
A.S.H
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The Wolves, The Sun, Words Pt.II & III

The Wolves

from the tritych, "The Sun, The Moon and the Wolves"

each piece 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas

$160.00 each / $400.00 for the Triptych

info in the previous post.

A.S.Hahn

Words.

The Moon, from the Tryptych, "The Sun, The Moon and The Wolves"

acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches

$140.00 each. Tryptych $400.00

Taking a short break from the "Desolation Row" series to explore some other recent thoughts. As always I return to my Theatrical background - over the years as a scenic artist I painted many back drops and scrims, I always loved the more artificial aspects of the Theatre, large props, backdrops, heightened costume so I thought I'd spend some time here indulging that love, most contemporary Theatre I did was just "brown wash" work, I probably made new wood look like old more times than I care to count - it's what most strongly identified to the audience that it was a Canadian project - it was brown, usually involved a secret from the past and there was a joke every three lines of dialogue or so, Daniel McIvor wrote a short piece crucyfying this mode, though I forget what the piece was called.

Recently Curry's had a huge sale, spend $50.00 get $10.00 off, I cleaned out the Queen location and the Dundas location of their 12 x 12 canvases as it's my favourite size, (see top photo) this is where they reside. I posted a photo on Fbook and was contacted by a friend in Vancouver who said to write her name on the back of the 10 th and the 18 th canvases and when I got to them I would mail them to her. This, I think is a great way to do business, so feel free to request a number. It also led to a new extension, which is popular on some blogs that illustrators frequent called, "Illustration Friday" where a word is given and then people illustrate and post to the blog. I don't participate as I have never been one to join anything, this sometimes is a disadvantage, but I prefer just managing my own blogs. If you would like a word illustrated, similar to the above image you may contact me here with the word, it will be painted in a different alphabet, but it will be our secret. Each piece will be $140.00, triptychs $400.00

enjoy your long weekend,

A.S.Hahn

as alwasy copy this email address into your email message, as I still can't get it to work, balls.

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