On Monday I'll be heading down to hang at least twenty pieces at Mitzi's Sister, come on down Mondays for $3.00 beers and half price nachos, I should be there from 6-8pm most Mondays for pick ups, sales, questions. I will of course post photos once the show is hung.
thanks to T.Thompson for the hook up.
A.Shay Hahn
Ran up to Fringe HQ today to get some detail shots of the 4 x 8 for you to see, also here's a Dodge Fiasco Gig Poster hanging in the window of the Dakota. 
So I decided work upright instead of horizontally, this follows my usual pattern of write one thing here and then do the exact opposite thing the next day ie: I won't be able to finish, I have to paint horizontally etc. I'm still pretty sure I won't be able to finish this thing.
A.Shay Hahn
So at the top of the second row from left, I added a "War Pig" ($80.00) and at the bottom by the antique fan that is affectionately known as "the Chopper" I've hung, "A Quiet Place to Call My Own" ($160.00) which I'd reccomend picking up if you're interested in the piece, it won't last. The rest of the wall is the same, actually, the muppets may vanish, I'm going to try to sell them all off quickly at the Fringe, they were fun to do for a spell but it's time to move away from figures protected by copyright, so if you want a Muppet I'll have them with me in my knapsack while I'm at the Fringe, 6-9 pm July 1 rst and July 2nd, $40.00 each.see you at the Fringe,
A.Shay Hahn
War Pig II (top) War Pig I, 8 x10 inches, acrylic on canvas, framedA.Shay Hahn
This is just straight up functional, Press Fest is three days of music with anywhere between five and eight bands playing through the day, no room to get cutesy here. Not the most exciting work, but you can see it from a distance, which is the most important aspect, and everything is spelled correctly, which is also important.
Here are two variants for the "Between the Hammer and the Anvil" DJ night at the Press Club, Burke Broadway and I figured that if I just focused the poster on what kinds of music was being played we could skip the name of the night and instead replace it with a six armed female bodybuilder in a luchadore mask. I'll probably do a variant poster at some point that has the name of the event stencilled over the stamps, but this is good for now. Come to think of it, this event is tonight at the Press Club.
Currently I've been on the hunt for two of the most elusive items in the city of Toronto, an ink stamp pad and a backgammon board, finally I bought an inkpad at DeSerre's and guess how must it cost ? EIGHT DOLLARS! I remember those things were everywhere when I was kid and cost nothing, but due to the scrapbooking fad they can now charge whatever they want for them. 
Here's a poster for I. Philp's rockin' good time musical enterprise, "Milk Run", this was the first poster I'd done in awhile, but it got my line work/ ink skills back in line pretty quickly.I'll be putting up another one later on this eve. These are done on a commission basis, price negotiable.
Rescue Dog (Siberian Husky) 11 x 14 inches, acrylic on canvas framedNot much to say today, big day of working on a Deep Sea Diver commission ( a whole band!) and touching up a couple of smaller things, there will be a couple of band/gig posters that I'll put up today too.
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A.Shay Hahn
from left top to bottom I Cannot Tell A Lie $160.00, Artemis $160.00, Here is the June 16th layout of the A.Shay Hahn wall at the Press Club, to locate this wall go to The Press Club which is on Dundas West, between Euclid and Manning on the North Side of the street. Their summer hours are 6 pm - 2 am, enter the bar walk to the back to order a drink and look East. I will be changing and updating things as they sell, new work is created, my moods change, etc. So if there is a piece you're interested in please contact me here to gurantee you get it.
I'm currently on a huge Gainsborough kick, leading me towards my own take on his work and the paintings of other British painters from the late 1700's, so expect that influence to show up in the new stuff. Who knew that looking at all those paintings of hunting parties, royalty, horses and landscapes when I was in England as a chilod, would resurface as such a strong impulse thirty years later. Thanks Dad, Mom and the British Mockridges.
I just spent a few days building frames, I've got about 35 of them now taking up most of the space in my studio, I also have the same amount of canvases, so I am more than prepared for these new ideas to start floppin' out. Currently I am taking commissions and also, please contact me if you need to still pick up your work from, "Come On Pilgrim" at the Cameron House.
I don't have much to say today, really, I just wanted you to see a picture of the wall
A.Shay Hahn
Rescue Dog (Scuba Gear), Rescue Dog (Deep Sea Diver)Let's get to the good news first, I have very happily negotiated an agreement with the fine folks at the Press Club to have the back wall near the bar be a permanent exhibition place for my work. I am building a hanging system on Monday and will be able to display multiple pieces of different sizes without pounding holes in their walls as I rotate work when it sells, and it will sell, mark my words, it will sell.
I have quite a few (too many ) paintings in my home studio right now, and they don't do me any good here, so you will be able to purchase from an ever rotating collection of beer pigs, muppets, assorted 12 x 12's, ladies with axes, and others ephemera by mid week, next week. I will of course post a photo as soon as the work is hung. I would like to thank M. & A. Hickery, V. Schwartz, I. Philp in advance for all the work that they will be doing for me, it's like my own musical boutique full of beer, couldn't be happier.
Some bad news, the BP oil spill, I'm 100% certain that's where the inspiration for the Whales of Safety and these fine Rescue Dogs has come from, man has gone so far past accountability in this life that now it's up to the animals to save their own, since we are hell bent on wiping everything off the planet, including ourselves, I'd say in the next eighty years or so. One of the "radical" environmentalists and original scientists work worked on the White House Report on Global Warming was quoted once as saying, "The human mind cannot comprehend how bad the situation has become on this planet (paraphrasing) if we did we'd go running into the streets screaming and beating our brains in.". That being said, the World Cup starts this week, it will be a fine distraction. Go Germany!
I had some crazy dreams last night, in one I was part of a misfit group of WW II Superheroes, like the JSA or the Invaders and we just couldn't get it together, all along the most powerful member of our group was this older female scientist, whos skin was charcoal grey with white blond hair. I imagine in the movie adaptation of the comic she will be played by Kate Blanchett ,as a Post Face Lift Joan Allen is too creepy to consider, why'd you have to do it Joan ? The Contender is one of my favourite films!
The Second dream was like a plot from a foreign film you'd read the review of in NOW magazine but never see, I was a US Soldier during the Vietnam War, next to our barracks in Saigon was a textile factory, there was a group of women who worked the same shifts as me and a couple of my buddies rotation and... you know what, this is actually too good to write here. I know folks download my paintings all the time and use the photos for their own pleasure, so I'll just keep this dream to myself, it would make a great screenplay.
A final word, I would like to wish a very, very Happy 3000th Birthday to the Rev. Matthew Ellis, who has been a great friend of mine for over 15 years or so, go see him and George Brown at Seven Crown's Tattoo (see links) they are the best in the city. Happy Birthday Matt.
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Easily one of the best bands that this city has ever produced, Dodge Fiasco have been my favourite rock band in this town since I first saw them, man that must be eight (nine?) years ago, just the damn best. I'd promised S.Dignan a gig poster about a year ago and finally got to it. I think it rocks.There is one more "Pub Life Sketch" but I'll have to track down a copy, I gave the original to I.Philp of Milk Run before I took a shot, look for it sometime in the next two weeks.
A.Shay Hahn
I don't know what's been on my mind for the past few days, but I've been in a pretty foul mood, maybe it's just the crash after the show coming down, but I've been pretty irritable and sensitive, small things set me off. I decided I would take the week and do anything, anything that I wanted, buy anything, paint anything, don't do any commissioned work, just try to get cheered up. so I decided to draw some more band posters, which I haven't done in over a year. Here are "The Big City Hicks"
