We continue our mad march to Christmas, with three more images for the series MOST DYNAMIC, we are going to switch over for a little while and do some kids letters. They will grace the walls at Kahawa for the month of January.
Let's get in touch, madcraftshoppe@live.com
A.S Hahn
"We Salute You Sky Pig, The World Salutes You"Leading up to Christmas I am painting one piece a day to publish at this site. Here are two to get us started, there may be more publised today to give me a head start, so I won't have to do this again until the 5th of Dec. each piece is available for the Most Dynamic price of One Hundred Dollars, I can't believe it either, that truly is Most Dynamic!
A.S Hahn
The show "Silver" comes down on Sat am, so the last day to see the work at the Cameron House is this Friday. If you would like to meet me to discuss a piece, contact me here madcraftshoppe@live.com to arrange a time. I promise to write all the notes and impressions of the work sometime soon, I just can't get into this, I'd rather be out living than blogging.
A.S Hahn
SOLD
SOLD.
Apparently my yearly bout of insomnia has come early this year, leaving me with migraines and a general feeling of living in a fugue state, yet we soldier on and painted these wonderful beasties just to keep a smile on my face.
Woman With Violin,The show at the Cameron House is extended until the 5th of December to be followed by Sam Ferrara's yearly show of metal sculpture. Sales are still going well so if you're interested in a piece I suggest you contact me sooner than later.
So the old email has been hacked and if you are on my contact list you will receive an email addressed to "Undisclosed Recipient" asking you to send me Three Thousand dollars, DO NOT REPLY, it isn't me.
new email is
best,
A.S Hahn
Silver will be up Saturday at the Cameron House, the Cameron opens at 4 pm, the Opening is next Sunday from 4-7:30 pm, if you are interested in purchasing work I reccomend buying or reserving before the Opening as work disappears mostly in the first week of the show being hung.
Here's the poster for the Billy Norman Trio who played at the Cloak and Dagger last night, Billy is probably the best upright bass player I have ever seen, Greg Haddow was brilliant on guitar and their drummer was pretty boss too. If you need a poster for your band, contact me here
Woman with City {for Jane Jacobs}
Last of the Milkmen {Hermes}
Last of the Airmen
Woman with Wooden Airplane (Icarus)
Here are two other pieces that I am going bat shit crazy trying to conquer for the show "Silver" which will be at the Cameron House for the month of November, the Opening Reception is Sunday, November 9th from 4-7:30 ish pm. The first is titled, "Prometheus - for my Mother" and the second is titled, "This is Not Quite Right Is It?". If you have any comments or advice on the work, they would be appreciated.
SCATTERED NEWS OF ALL KINDSHere is my new tea towel, you may think it odd to post it, but I think it's incredible as a piece of art. You have to be able to see it everywhere. If you're feeling out of practice go lie down outside and pick some shapes out of the clouds, before the ground gets too cold, if this fails spit juice on a piece of paper and let it dry.
FAVOURITE RECENT QUOTE A FRIEND OF MINE SHOULD READ
"The only thing worse than bad health, is a bad name" from Love in the Time of Cholera
FAVOURITE RECENT MESSAGE LEFT ON MY PHONE
"Hey Picasso, it's DeNiro, are we meeting up tonight or what?" from Tony Nappo
FAVOURITE PASSAGE IN A BOOK
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 14, page 150, a breathtaking piece of writing, just read that page.
FAVOURITE THING OVERHEARD SAID OUT LOUD TO NO ONE AT ALL
"Susan Sarandon"
I was there, I know the guy, he wasn't talking to anyone, maybe just a fan, who knows. In fact he may not have even been aware he said it out loud. I've been puzzling over this for days.
FAVOURITE WAY TO PAY ATTENTION
"To hear what other people are thinking" I can't recall where I picked this up, but it is very helpful.
I have no idea, if any of that was worth posting, but I haven't been here for a week or so and wanted to let you Shoppers know that more work is coming soon.
All the best,
A.S.Hahn
As most of you may know, (or check the "murals" tab in the column to your left),about twelve years ago I was commissioned to create a mural for Theatre Passe Muraille's bar area, this was probably my second or third contracted mural. This one project started a relationship with the Theatre that continues to this day, under Layne Coleman's stewardship and Jonathan Rooke's steady friendship, I became the resident scenic artist,painting almost all of their shows for the next five or six years, and every wall in the building except the ceiling. I was playwright in Residence for a year, that play went on to become the show "St.Christopher" which was produced on the mainstage in association with DVxT theatre and another show of mine, "Lemon Water" was produced by Greg Thomas and his partner Liz Dalgleish at Summerworks on the mainstage. 
Here are some additions to the mural at the Done Right Inn, people there love the Spy Vs. Spy and I didn't want to cover it completley so I decided to continue the Mad Magazine theme by adding characters by the great Don Martin. I feel there are enough, I couldn't have done any more that day as I was thick in the head with a cold and had to get home to freebase some neo citran.
World's Tallest Love Letter {Forever}
I mean Jesus Christ, look at the size of that fish.
{I always feel I should write more, but also the image should speak for itself, whether it's a painting or a picture from the newspaper. Also, I don't like posting links, I enjoy visually the way the newspaper looks with the scan, it remind me of M.Ellis and I working together in University on Media projects, we'd pile chains and all kinds of stuff on the scanner to make our backgrounds, a good memory. Also their is an Arnaud Maggs feeling to it, that I enjoy, his work is amazing, I will own some of it before I'm forty.}
This is when we're happiest Shoppers, just take a moment to drink in the majesty of a guy firing on all cylinders.
Woman with ScissorsThe weekends really aren't weekends at the Shoppe right now friends, the weekends consist of at least eighteen hours of painting and sketching. As I've also been working another job I manage to do about twelve hours of painting during the week, so the light math is thirty hours of painting a week, plus an average thirty five hour work week. The man has some stamina folks.
Q. Why is that ?
A. I wait all year for this, as soon as I have the hard dates for my Cameron House show, I take all the notes, photos and sketches that I"ve been jamming into moleskines and cramming into sketchbooks and I start laying it out. It's all about preparation, some people may think that I paint quickly, it does look that way, but it's the preparation that gets me there. Once I'm ready it's time to get it all out.
Q. But wait, I thought you despised sketching !
A. Oh yes that I do, I can't stand it, if you've see me at any of the local pubs, you'll know that I take the first pint to scrawl a whole bunch of stuff down and then can relax to read the paper and chat.
If you want to research something great and Canadian and spooky (see First Image) look up "The Battlefords" on Google.
I do have more to say about this, but I need to go for my daily constitutional, take care
A.S Hahn
