Friday, Dec. 3rd at the Press Club.

Pilot

12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

SOLD.

Not much to say today except come on out to the Press Club onFriday, Dec. 3rd, 6:30- 9:30pm to have a drink and see the paintings, all the other info you need to read is on these pages.

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A.Shay Hahn

Countdown

Orange Two, Grapefruit

14 x 18 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

$260.00 each

So the promo cards are ready and I'm wandering around town personally delivering them to fine folks who I'd like to attend, dropping them in mailboxes of businesses I like and leaving little piles in pubs and in washrooms for people to pick up. I have yet to annoy too many people on facebook and am just including the smallest bits of info on Tumblr.

I have about seven more pieces in various states of completion (most are most than half finished, luckily) and am just trying to keep a good groove and not lose my head.

The show goes up on the 1rst of December and I'll be there from 6-8pm, tweaking and labelling. Friday Dec. 3rd you can come by for a Reception from 6:30- 9:30pm and have some nosh and hang out.

As usual work is already selling, so get to me soon if there is a piece you'd like to secure.

hope all is well,

A.Shay Hahn

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Dates and les Anniversaires

The Done Right Inn, 12 year anniversary mural

"The Trinity Belles Reunion Tour"

(see the label "murals" for more info)

So sorry folks, I feel like I haven't been here for years, I also think I should have more to post but looking over at "the stack" I realize that most of the things I've been working on have been commissioned pieces or incredibly top secret so even though I've been doing a ton of stuff, I haven't been able to post it, but will at a later date, when it's ready to be loosed upon the world.

Date for the OPENING RECEPTION, that's right, we've got this figured out,

Opening reception for (50) at the Press Club on Friday, December 3rd from 6-9pm, feel free to stick around after Alun Pigguns is playing that night and he is boss, not sure who's opening for him, but he usually starts by midnight, god that seems late, man I'm getting old. I am not having a band for the Opening Reception, but am planning something cool for a closing party. I hang the show on December 1rst and that's when I would reccomend you get your advance peek at what's going up if there's something you want. The Press Club is usually open by 6:30 and I will be there December 1rst from 6-8pm, that evening The Pivot Reading Series will be on and they usually have some good authors reading their stuff and by stuff I mean words.

As always for the December show you will be able to take the work home with you that night, so you can do your Christmas wrappin' or whatever, but you have to pay me first, this is a lesson I am trying to teach the entire Internet at the same time, it's going very slowly.

On Sunday, November 28 at the upstairs cabaret at Theatre Passe Muraille I will be sketching with the National Theatre of The World as they perform "Angels In America 3" a tribute to Tony Kushner, I'm not going to explain this, just go to their website, http://www.thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com/NTOW.html and check them out. I missed sketching for the first one due to the goddam flu and I am attending this to sketch them irregardless of how much sleep I will lose getting caught up on finishing paintings, these guys are amazing and you can't miss them. I think I just said "can't miss them" four times in this short paragraph. But hey it's 6:05 AM, what's a fella to do.

Alright, I've got a huge day, hope to have something else posted later on in the afternoon/early evening. Now I'm going to jump over to the Any How Town blog and put up some pictures of buildings.

all the best,

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

GOONS.

Goon (Baseball)

10 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

$160.00

I'm not a fan of baseball, but I am a fan of the vintage baseball uniforms and the poses on old cards. I expect that there will be another baseball goon or two showing up at the Press Club also a couple of soccer goons and a football goon or two, probably ten in total. I'd like to get started on them, but nobody seems to be paying me on time for my other work, so they have to wait.

If you'd like to order a GOON playing for your favourite time, I'd be more than happy to do that for you.

If you'd like to remedy this situation and help a fella get to his Goons

madcraftshoppe@live.com is now accepting your timely email transfers

A.Shay Hahn

Vintage

Eveready SOLD, Dubble Bubble, Popeye

each piece is 14 x 18 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

$260.00 each

If you go all the way back to the beginning of this blog, maybe the third enty or so you can see the "water polo" players that I used to do standing in front of signs, I thought I'd come back to it for the Press Club show, I'm going through a vintage phase. I think it started with the Pond Goons, now I have plans to do baseball and football goons and also finish a bunch of the green army men as musicians and maybe a couple more of these ladies. It will make for a great looking wall at the Press Club. The show will go up Wed. December 1rst, and the Opening will be that weekend, we just have to decide which date. I was originally considering Sunday eve, but I think I'd rather start the weekend off with a reception, people may be too tired by Sunday.

This is a terrible blog entry, my head is cloudy and the upstairs neighbour is in the shower, please, get out of the shower, I want to go in the shower.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Piano (#36, new big oceans)

Piano (#36, new big oceans)

14 x 18 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

$240.00

Like the orange from Chardin, this figure is supplied courtesy of Mr.Winslow Homer's piece, "Breezing Up" from 1876, with changes of course.

Mural photos to be posted today.

A.Shay Hahn

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Press Club "SALE" Wall a "SALE" Wall no more

I sold two more pieces from the SALE wall and decided to take everything down from it, partially because I didn't have any work to sell at a reduced price, but mostly because my house is rapidly fillng up with new work alongside my older work and it's getting a little cramped in here. So I moved these eight pieces over to the Press Club, each is 10 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas and framed for $160.00 each.

Off to finish the 12 year Anniversary mural at the Done Right Inn, still having studio visits right up until the end of November.

cheers,

A.Shay Hahn

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New Favourite Painting.

Orange (#37)

14 x 18 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

$280.00

Things assemble themselves in the strangest ways sometimes, what was originally going to be a piece based on a photo of Sylvia Plath (don't worry, it's coming) morphed into a painting of a woman sitting on an orange. When Balfour books changed location I bought a wonderful book on Chardin, a man who is considered a bit of a painter's painter, his still life work is mind blowing, so I borrowed one of his oranges.

I'd been getting a little tired of the usual format and have been looking for new avenues in my work, painting this orange was a great way to go, when combined with the strange teal/brown elements in the sky and then tying all the colours into the figure I really feel that I hit something.

Lovers of Neo Rauche's work will no doubt thing I'm trying to pull from his palette, but nothing could be further from the truth.

I love this painting, it joins "Tantrum" ( I don't think I have the piece on the blog) and "Last of the Snake Killing Girls" (see label "Silver") as paintings that I am very proud of and also found new things within old patterns and nothing makes me happier than that.

So there's 24 days until I hang the show at the Press Club for the Annual December Exhibition, in that time I am painting a mural this week, working on 4 or 5 new pages for the graphic novel (see link Any How Town) and generally making a brand new mess of the place.

Lots of news and images to come.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Big News over at Any How Town

Hey folks, hop on over to the "Any How Town" blog, we've got good news.

A.S.Hahn

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