Woman with Wings IVThe Woman who Loved her Piano III
both 20 x 20 inches, acrylic on canvas
$400.00 each
A.Shay Hahn
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Canadian Girl Project, ctd....
Newfound Land Girl,
Canadian Girl, Change in the Weather
Canadian Girl, at the break water
12 x 12inches, acrylic on canvas
from the ongoing series, "The Canadian Girl Project"
$120.00 each
Yes, I know that I write "info to come" more often than not and don't ever return, so once more from the top, "info to come". Expect the flag of Newfound land to appear here soon, it's the only Provincial flag that I really think is visually appealing, there is the Fleur de Lis but...well, we'll see.
UPDATE: Here's the Newfoundlander.
Commission any flag you like by contacting me below.
A.Shay Hahn
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The Angel of Carpenters
The Angel of Carpenters,
12 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas
$400.00
I completed this piece last night, sometime after midnight, I'd been working off and on with it for a couple of weeks, people ask how I paint so fast, the answer is that I don't, I usually have about eight or nine concepts, block ins, backgrounds, sketches etc. that I'm working on all at once, smaller things have a better chance of getting finished first, so if you finish three and post them on the day they are done people tend to imagine you did all three in one day, this simply is not true. A good way to track this (not that anyone cares) would be to follow some of the process shots I post here and then see when they pop up as finished, to make this easier for you folks at home I have recently deleted several of the process shot entries.
Actually I did that because I'm pretty damn sure those paintings were crap and I would just destroy them anyway, I destroy alot of my work, it doesn't upset me in the least, I keep the ones that are good, I'll keep them for two years or so, I'll even negotiate the price, but I refuse to be one of those painters with a house full of old work, if it isn't a success I'll kill it off or donate it to a theatre auction.
I'm not worried about, The Angel of Carpenters, it will sell, probably by the end of the week. That's not bragging, but what do I know, I've been awake for twenty hours.
A.S Hahn
Email works, contact me to purchase/order. I have no idea who reads this thing anyways.
Oh yes, if you read do this and are also on facebook feel free to join my group, "The mad craft alphabet shoppe" and you can just look at the pictures and not have to be distracted by all this naughty text.
Canadian/ Colombian Girl and some tiny red airplanes
Three Red Airplanes,acrylic on canvas, 22,5 x 1o inches
three 6 x6 canvases in reclaimed wood frame
$100.00
Canadian / Colombian Girl, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, commission
from the ongoing series, "The Canadian Girl Project"
Good Morning Shoppers it's 4:30 am and I'm wide awake. Let me tell you something, if you don't know me personally, for the past four years I've been a morning person, I will gladly and happily get up at 7 am if it means having more hours of good light during the day to paint and go for my daily walks. The night life holds little interest to me, I've been out and done that, I'd rather be working or going to the Theatre, or catching a band in the early evening, that's just how I am, no fighting it.
So I should be thrilled to be awake at this hour, correct ? Wrong , what accompanies getting up early is going to bed early and that hasn't happened yet, not without a couple of (failed) attempts. Tonight, I failed "sleeping", that has got to be bad news.
Recently there have been a couple of changes in my life that have skewed my schedule, personal things that I won't get into here (go to my links section and read the blog, "Adventures in Schnooville" if you want real emotional honesty) my problems are like that game you played during the obstacle course on Play Day in Public School where you'd put your fore head on a baseball bat and spin around in a circle and then have to run in a straight line, but imagine that there is a phrase written on the ground that I read as I'm spinning, I'll let you guess what that is. I had no other choice but to change something, it made me look like an a** to someone but better now than later when it will really hurt or worse, it remains a situation that drags on and does not change. I'll take my lumps and be referred to as a bad person, it's not the first time that's happened (ask anyone) , this was the right thing to do, no amount of talking would change it, like I said before, that's the way I am, no fightin' it.
Anyways, the above image of red airplanes would be great for a kid's room, (I am now playing interior decorator and telling you where to put things in order to speed Sales along - on that note, the long"Small Towns" would look great beside a dining room table above the sideboard or whatever that piece of furniture is called where stuff for the table is kept) and the new "Canadian Girl" was a commission from a friend for his daughter's first birthday, she is Can/ombian, I love the primary colours of the Colombian Flag they really pop and I think it will be great for the child's room, I also imagine this is an image that will stay with her as she grows up, I'm sure of it - and that makes me very happy. Please don't make me explain "commissions" again.
A.S. Hahn
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The Woman Who Slept 1-4
The Woman who Slept 1-412 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas
$140.00 each/ set of four $500.00
Notes to come, but I have got to get back to work.
A.S.Hahn
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Small Towns, the march to myopia
Small Town, Red Roof /Yellow Roof2 @ 18 x 18 inches, acrylic on canvas
$400.00 each/ diptych $700.00
Small Towns, Cobblestones,2 @ 12 x24 inches, acrylic on canvas
$700.00
from the series,"Small Towns"
Small Towns, Blue Roof2 @ 12 x24 inches, acrylic on canvas
$700.00
from the series,"Small Towns"
To really see, with clarity, the colours involved in each piece, I encourage you to click on the image.
These are an incredible amount of work, no scenic artist tricks, every mark hand applied and every colour hand mixed, nothing from straight out the tube.
A.S.Hahn
A.S.Hahn
Monday, September 14, 2009
The Man Who Loved/ The Woman Who Loved
The Woman Who Loved Her Piano III, 20 x 20 inches, acrylic on canvas
$400.00
The Woman Who Loved the Classics, 16 x20 inches, acrylic on canvas
$250.00
Will Repost the "Piano" piece after a few more touch ups, that shot was taken "wet" so it's got too much bounce
A.S.Hahn
Small Towns
Small Town (after Seurat)2 @ 16x20 inches, acrylic on canvas $800.00
from the series, "Small Towns"
To see the work and colours involved in the image, please click on the photo.
I will add some updates and thoughts here in a couple of days but I have three more Small Towns that I would like to get posted before midweek, they take a long time and you can go a little cross eyed while working on them.
A.S Hahn
Friday, September 11, 2009
The End of An Era, but it really wasn't that long
This is incredibly eerie, after three years of occupying this space on the back patio at the Cloak and Dagger the mural has come down. It would have been great to line up another sponsor to use the wall, as the construction of the piece is quite solid but we were unable to find someone willing to pay the fee. I'd like to thank Guinness for the oppurtunity and C and B for letting me do the piece. It's a little like phantom limb syndrome looking at this photo. You can see the mural if you click on the label "murals".A.S.Hahn
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The Girl Who Lived...or How I learned to stop worrying and paint anyways
The Girl Who Lived in A Chicken,
The Girl Who Lived in A Robot's Head
10 x 10 inch canvas, in reclaimed wood frame, acrylic on canvas
$120.00 each
from the series, "The Girl Who Lived..."
This is how I cheer myself up.
A.Shay Hahn
Monday, September 07, 2009
Commissions
Top is the finished image, bottom was a process shotThis was a great collaborative piece to do for a client who wanted something specific but also as filtered through my style/subject matter. To contact me about commissions contact me at the address below which may not immediately work so (sorry to keep saying this) copy and paste the address with your email provider and I'll get back to you. This is a great time of year, things get a little crazy around Christmas, upcoming show, higher volume of commissions etc. so talk to me now.
If you're in Toronto I hope your pets survived the stress of the air show.
A.S.Hahn
Thursday, September 03, 2009
New Styles for the Alphabet Shoppe
Here are two new variations on the quilted letters, let's called the one of the left, "Night Quilt" and the one on the right "Spring Quilt" as always letters are sixty dollars each and three for one hundred and fifty available by contacting me here, also go to the links area to click yourself on over to the alphabet shoppe. And believe me, now would be a great time to do it!A.S.Hahn
Small Towns, Ice and Blue
Small Town, blue roof24 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas
$400.00
from the series, "Small Towns"
The icy texture of the ground really appeals to me, it informed the more "rough" looking treatment that I gave the piece as opposed to the more "clean" appeal of the others in the series. These remind me more of roughly built ice fishing huts. I also like the unfinished house that is just the rough-in.
A.S.Hahn
madcraftshoppe@live.com
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Small Towns in the Fall
Small Towns in the Fall (diptych)
Two 20 x 2o inch canvases, acrylic on canvas
SOLD.
This was a ton of work and turned out beautifully.
A.S.Hahn
Fancy Wagons, the return
Fancy WagonsTwo pieces, twenty x twenty inches each, acrylic on canvas
$350.00 ea / Diptych $600.00
A couple of fancy wagons that I did while working on some new Small Towns, stay tuned for more work.
A.S.Hahn
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