The Wilson 96 and sketching....

I just wanted to write a few notes about my process,preferences, artistic peccadilloes etc. this came up out of a conversation I was having at the Wilson 96 while the Steelers killed the Jets in the ground game. I was talking about why I love to do posters for bars/bands/ TShirts etc. (see the label "Pub Life Sketches or the blog ANY HOW TOWN) why I don't charge that much for it, why it doesn't seem to happen enough. The main reason I love doing these poster is that it's a chance to really draw, my friend S.Power said, "but when you're here, you draw all the time". No, no I don't.

A comparison is in order. The Top illustration "Exhibit A" is a drawing of a Tiger playing guitar in the reeds, this fulfills my criteria of what a drawing is, I rarely if ever, get do to drawings because when I go out to sketch I produce about seven pages of "Exhibit B" in about 2-3 hours. This short hand is much like a comic book artist's "Thumbnail" pages, which are breakdowns of what size panels, what action goes onto one comic page, for me this is how I compose my paintings. What you see above are several sketches of people sitting in trees, mostly trees that have fallen into the water, or are growing out of the side of a river bank.

If there is a check mark, chances are I'll give it a shot when I'm in the studio. These sketches were done on Wednesday of last week I hope to be posting at least three of the finished works at the end of this week. I wanted to do something different from my usual grounds, introduce some new colours and character to my palette/language, these "tree folk" have been running around in my head for awhile and I couldn't concentrate on any Tom Waits project stuff. Any notes included on these pages either relate to what the images should feel like or make absolutely no sense at all.

Why don't I spend more time on sketches ? Then you'd get to draw more ! These thumbnails get me to where I'm going really fast, since I usually work in series if I can draw about 40 of these squares I have a bunch of stuff to choose from, drawing takes too much time and I'll probably change something in the composition when I'm painting anyway so these guides are all I need.

When I finally get some time to draw it will be for my Graphic Novel/ Kids series, "ANY HOW TOWN" which you can read about if you follow the link, in the links section. I've been going crazy looking at Peterson's "Mouse Guard" series and the comic,"The Stuff of Legend" that size of comic would be perfect for Any How Town.

The sketchbook size that this page is from is 8 x 11 " which is so cool looking it has become a favourite, the pens are micron 0.3 I think, I grind those poor bastards down into nubs, but really they're $3.00 each, so who's the real poor bastard ?

Expect alot of posts this week, for warm ups I am painting a skeleton mariachi band, so expect one of those a day and hopefully at the end of this week I'll have three or five nice 16x16 or 18 x 18's to show you, that will be hung at the Cameron House for the month of February.

(If sometimes these posts make no sense it is because I never go back and reread or edit them.)

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Aflockalypse, Apocafish, etc

Here are some scans I did a couple of weeks ago when all the birds were falling from the sky and the fish were washing up all over, I'm going to add a new scan every couple of weeks, developing positions and scenes etc. it's good fun.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Tom Waits project, palettes and fun

The Shadow Boys (are breakin' all the laws)

10 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

$160.00

I currently don't have any 10 x 12 frames, I'll be building them at the end of the month and then transporting everything to the Cameron or the Press Club or wherever it looks best, I am sure that this type of stain won't be used with pieces that have this palette because it looks like balls. I'm thinking something in a deep ebony for stain colours, hint of red maybe, or cobalt, oh I like that idea.

I am enjoying this palette immensely, it brings me way back to when I was painting in oil at the Blyth Festival, I would do grounds of black/blue bushes with extreme yellow/white flowers in them, I'll probably do a bunch for this show, which will have it's preview at the Cameron in Feb. and then an Opening at the Cameron in May.

Of course I intend to sell all of this work before I even show it, so maybe I should go with the idea of a subscription series, that I'd discussed so long ago with my friend A.Yates (let's see if he's still following me on Twitter) . order your Tom Waits painting now for $160.00 and pick it up Feb. 1rst. just like my girl Sam Phillips http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/sam-phillips-changes-the-music-game-with-online-experiment/article1872767/ or read about how Amanda Palmer made $11,000 on Twitter in two hours http://www.webinknow.com/2009/07/yesterday-i-enjoyed-spending-some-time-with-amanda-palmer-lead-singer-of-the-dresden-dolls-and-punk-cabaret-force-of-nature.html .

I need people to invest in me like this, the work is there, You can order 10 framed 10 x12's, (which would be $1600.00) and I'd do them for $1500.00 (half in advance/ half on delivery in May) , if five people did this I would be out of debt and working steadily, go go Internet!

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Tom Waits Project, 500 Posts

"Dontcha Know There Ain't No Devil..."

10 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

$160.00

"Heart Attack and Vine" was my introducion to Tom Waits so long ago at University, because of that I've always preferred his more simple and straight forward blues/ folkish work and especially the percussive stuff.

I am at home this weekend working pretty bloody hard on a number of paintings so I celebrate this 500th post at the mad craft shoppe alone, can of Grolsch in one hand, brush in the other.

cheers,

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

(p.s. if you add the alphabet shoppe blogposts and ANY HOW TOWN together, the total is actually 614 posts over three blogs, but five hundred, though a smaller number, does sound better.)

Mitzi's Sister Extension, Theatre in the city this weekend

Fisherman (Pisces)

11 x 14 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

$180.00

I really like paintings and photos of fishermen/people, I've done two women carrying gigantic fish in the past and I thought it would be nice to do another, this time a man, it's not going to be all Tom Waits Project all the time here, I call myself a "diarist" painter, if while I'm sketching a certain idea takes over I just follow it, chances are it has something to do with my moods. I believe this was inspired by the artist's life, alone out on the sea, making your own way, canned tuna etc. I had thought at one point of doing a series inspired by the Zodiac, but so many of the signs are just so stupid looking, I passed, I'll just stick with the fish.

We have been extended at Mitzi's Sister until the end of January, so you have two more weeks to see my work there, and then in February we're moving to the Cameron House for a month.I am currently working on about eight new pieces for the Cameron, hope to get up to ten finished for the end of the month, so I am spending the weekend inside working. I will have to extensively photograph the Cameron House and the Press Club fow what is going to be at either location, it may get confusing.

If you want to get out and see some theatre go check out the Fringe Next Stage Festival happening right now at the Factory Theatre, I saw, "Tom's A-Cold" it was a whip smart 65minute. show with strong performances from Matt MacFadzean and Shane Carty, here's a link to the Next Stage site,since I have to do everything.

http://www.fringetoronto.com/nstf/nstf_shows.html

If you really want to go bananas, you have got to see "Assasins" at the Theatre Centre, it was so incredible, it's the kind of theatre that I love, bare brick walls and just a minimum of props (not great if you're a scenic artist trying to make a living, but aesthetically what I like) and some amazing performances, here's a link to that too, because once you start you have to add links for everything.

http://www.birdlandtheatre.com/

You can see my work for the month of January at The Wilson 96 (615 College), Mitzi's Sister (1554 Queen West) and the Press Club (850 Dundas) if I am unable to meet with you and you want to purchase from the bartender you must pay cash, you can see what is posted where by scrolling down to other posts.

there you go,

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Tom Waits Project and other news

Time I & II

12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

SOLD.
Here are the first two pieces from the T.Waits project based around the song "Time" from Rain dogs, I've been reading and sketching Tom Waits lyrics for a couple of hours every day now and have gotten things started. When going through the songs I first plotted key words and images that reoccured in his work, trying to find a good starting point. the dominant words being, "Sleep", "Memory" and "Dream"and "Time" so I think if people start to float around in the air in the work ala Chagall that's just fine.

SHOW STUFF These two pieces are hanging at the Wilson 96 (615 College Str. across from the Royal Cinema) until the end of January. This is the final week for the "Unframed and On Sale" show at Mitzi's Sister, that work comes down on the 17th of January, you can see what's there if you scroll down a bit.

UPCOMING I will be showing work at the Cameron House for the month of February, there was a cancellation and yes, I did ask a couple of other artists if they were interested but both weren't quite prepared. I am going to move some work from the Press Club, reframe some of the work from Mitzi's and the Wilson 96 and also add about eight new pieces, so it should be a pretty cool looking room.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

The Wilson 96

Here ya go folks, if you want to go somewhere for a drink after work that's so lovely it makes your knees hurt, I reccomend hitting up the Wilson 96.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Grand Trunk Winnipeg

Here's a design commissioned from Winnipeg, once I get the full info on what it's for and where you can get it, I will post that here.

cheers,

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Pilots at the Wilson 96 Group Show

Pilot I & Pilot II

16 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas $260.00 each

Hey there we're getting back in the swing of things at the studio just completed the final highlights on these two Pilots which will be hanging at the Wilson 96 (615College) for the month of January as part of a group show, after that if they don't sell, I'll move them down to the Press Club. I really love this 16 x 16 inch size and also the "boy and his dog" posture that the figures have. Here's the info, love that it's called, "the Group of 96"

Sunday, January 9 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
the Wilson 96 , 615 College Street
Our first group show is up and it is quite something. Please come on by to check out some beautiful work by our artist friends and stick around to hear Danica Leigh bring us some Sunday night jazz at 9:30.

the Group of 96 Art Show- painting and photography ,January 4-31, Shannon Blackie, Therese Cilia , Andrew Shay Hahn, Meaghan Lynch, Farid Rezzaoui, Hieram Wientraub, Sean Waisglass

In other news we've been reading pages and pages of Tom Waits lyrics and writing copious notes for "the Tom Waits Project" which is my next series of paintings that I will be working on from now at least until April, there will be other work but the T.Waits stuff will be a regular weekly posting.

Expect a couple of designs to pop up here soon, lots to do.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Last Year's Resolutions...oh those, right.

Instead of making a bunch of new resolutions, here is the follow up on my super smart resolutions from last year....

1. Buy a ukelele, perhaps learn to play it (record ep):

FAILURE

Despite the good natured reminders from my friend K.Hudson, I did not buy a ukelele and learn to play it, I think building models filled that "new hobby" part of my brain.

2. Dig out Spanish Language Cd Rom and get back at it:

FAILURE

"This is the resolution that I drop every year, I say I'll do it and then I don't, hopefully this year, since I spend so much time "listening" to movies, I'll be able to get back into learning Spanish." That's what I said last year, I'm obviously never going to teach myself Spanish, it's a CD-Rom for god's sake, who even uses those any more ?

3. Reduce Smoking 50% by April:

FAILURE

My smoking has not increased, I'm pretty sure it's gone done a bit, not too much but some.

4. Go to Montreal for the weekend.

FAILURE

Had plans to do this,completely forgot,we were also going to go to the Finger Lakes,we are going to Cuba in March and I resolve to add another vacation in the Spring.

5. Finish One of Three Illustrated Books for Children: I am committed to getting three of them finished and published by the time I'm Forty.

HALF WAY THERE

All the notes and rough sketches are done, I still have some time to achieve this goal and I will

6.Buy More Plants:

FAILURE

We did, they died,moving on...

7.Reduce Clothes, DVD's and Books by 30% by the Spring:

SORT OF SUCCESS

This is no problem, I've given away three boxes full of DVDs and a bags of clothes to the Scott Mission,this spring I will work on the CD's and Books, Idon't know if I want tohave a garage sale, I don't mind just giving the stuff away.

8.Spend More Time with My Friends Children:

SUCCESS!!!!!

9.DON'T Explain/Apologize for the shitty habits of others.

SUCCESS!!!

so there you go, come back soon I am finishing a couple of NEW paintings to hang at the Wilson 96 for a Group Showing, I'll post pics here on Tuesday. New boards on the easel, new warm up canvases ready, 2011, let's make some money.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

P.S Art is still up at Mitzi's Sister and my show at the Press Club is up until the end of February,I have to post an update photo soon as lots of stuff has been changed and moved around,I'll do that later this eve.

Stolen December 20th from the Press Club

Fall Fashions, 10 x 12 inches acrylic on canvas, framed

Stolen

I've already had my rant about this, I'm not here for that, just to post some info. this piece was stolen from the Press Club on December 20th some time after 10pm. From some information gathered the thief may be a bike courier or have a courier style bag big enough for this framed piece to fit in. The Thief may be associated with a new bike shop on Dundas West, "Ride Away Bikes" that has recently opened, I do not mean that the shop is in any way involved with the theft of this piece.

Any information can be emailed to me at the address below, there is no reward, you're just doing the right thing by contacting me, many thanks.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Location, Location, Location, where to find me...

Where you can see my work in Toronto, and where you can find me online...

SALE at Mitzi's Sister, December 15th - January 15th
Okay for those of you who dont' know, Mitzi's Sister is located deep in Parkdale at 1554 Queen Street West. it's West of Lansdowne, but not that far West, it's on the North side of the street and opens at 4pm. Monday it's $3.00 bottles and half price nachos, I think kids eat free for a short time on Wednesdays here's a link to their website. http://www.mitzis.ca/sister.html

(50) Paintings at the Press Club, December 1rst- February 28th
The Press Club is located at 850 Dundas West, which is West of Bathurst, between Euclid and Manning on the North side of the street they open at 7pm most nights, live music begins around 10pm.

It is perfectly all right to buy work from the bartenders at either location, provided that you pay cash. I make a superior effort to meet with people when they are buying work, but I know it can't always happen with these busy holiday shopping days, so it's okay, just ask the bartender. I do not reserve work, due to folks in the past standing me up or changing their mind, you have to be there to get it.

If you are interested in the Alphabet Kids letters that I do you can click on this link to go to that blog

http://thealphabetshoppe.blogspot.com/

If you want to check out Any How Town, which is the dumping area for my models, sketches and character portraits for the graphic novel/comic book stuff I hope to get around to finishing some day click here.

http://anyhowtown.blogspot.com/

I'm also on tumblr, but I usually add a link to come here, I think I'm "madcraftshoppe" on Tumblr, I can't remember what my Twitter thingy is I just link in from this blog and add posts that take you to this blog, so it's a pretty closed loop.

And of course you can find me on Facebook at the group, "the mad craft shoppe"

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=7504818668

So, for those new to the area, here's my stuff, hope you enjoy it,

A.Shay Hahn

and finally all email transfers/ requests/ compliments/ etc. are sent here

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Mitzi's Sister, December - January Sale

Campfire Dolls $340.00, Last of the Snake Killin' Girls $340.00

All Tomorrow's Parties $340.00, Woman with Scissors $340.00,

Woman with Lanterns SOLD.

The Winsor Series, alphabet letters $40.00 each

Blue Houses $380.00, Prometheus $340.00, The Fencer $120.00, The Diver $120.00

Raised by Plastic Wolves $340.00, The Gulliver Tales $280.00, Last Adventure of the Dog Faced Boys $340.00

I was asked to hang work at Mitzi's Sister from today until Jan. 15th or so, I have hung the work unframed and at a lower price for those interested in funding my next couple of projects with your holiday purchases.

As always the show at the Press Club is up and awaits your attendance.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

The Press Club, back wall

All 6 x6 framed pieces Crows, Snakes, Foxes etc. are $40.00 each. Fox SOLD, Snake SOLD, Some Crows SOLD.A Quiet Place to Call My Own $160.00, Deep Sea Diver $220.00, Deep Sea Diver $220.00

Piano (New Big Oceans) $260.00, 6x6's $40.00 each, Goon I & Goon II SOLD Deep Sea Diver SOLD Baseball Goon $160.00

And here's the back wall, Goons can be ordered in the Team of your choice, the Jersey style will be chosen by me to fit the painting, Deep Sea Divers can be ordered playing any instrument you like except the Saxophone because that would look ridiculous.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

The Press Club, East Wall

Top to bottom, Morning SOLD (Replaced with, "A Cup of Crows" $160.00) , Morning II SOLD the Invisible Men SOLD Dress (Julie Andrews without Julie Andrews )SOLD

Fox with Fiddle $180.00, Fall Fashions (skeletons) STOLEN, Crow with Drum $180.00, Pilot SOLD (replaced with "Man with Hammer" $220.00)

Orange Two SOLD (replaced with Man with Hammer II SOLD), Grapefruit $260.00, the Night Tree $340.00

Lady with an Axe $220.00, Pencils (Blonde Chignon) SOLD, Prometheus $260.00, Canadian Girl $180.00

Yes, kind of pain to not have new photos of the current work that is hanging, but I will get to it eventually, if you scroll down to the Wilson 96 (or click the label) you should be able to see the paintings that I have replaced the "SOLD" work with.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

The show at the Press Club, West Wall

( from Top to Bottom) Eveready SOLD, First Look at the Stars, both $260.00, Dubble Bubble, Popeye, Orange, $260.00 each, Pilgrim SOLD, The White Rowboat $440.00

all works acrylic on canvas, framed.

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted, I'd originally made one long post with all the images but quickly realized it was just too big, so it was deleted. I've been spending most of time over at the Any How Town blog, posting photos of new things that I've made. My current attitude is that Any How Town is play and Painting is work, so after going nonstop to get the show ready for the Cameron (this past May) to going all the way to now I just really don't want to do any more painting until the New Year.

There will be things popping up here of course as the show changes, ( I already need to reshoot the East Wall), but I'm in full on "rest" mode from painting. What does "rest" mean you ask ? It means I'm writing pages for my graphic novel, working on two kids books that are based on Any How Town characters and designing a series of movie/band posters.

I am available for appointments to meet at the Press Club by contacting me here, the Press Club is located at 850 Dundas West, North side of the street, between Euclid and Manning.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

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.

madcraftshoppe@live.com

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

madcraftshoppe@live.com

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

madcraftshoppe@live.com

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

madcraftshoppe@live.com

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

madcraftshoppe@live.com

The Wilson 96 Flying Squad

The Pilot

10 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas framed

SOLD.

So there's this one spot on the wall at the Wilson 96, it's above the bar and to the left and any time I put a painting of a pilot there, it sells. I've sold four pilot paintings from that spot in two months and here's the last one, if it's there when I go by the bar on Sunday, I'll be stunned. If it's there where I take down the work on Monday, I'll be gob smacked,you heard me, gobsmacked.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

GOONS!

Goon 1 and 2 (Studies In Grey)

10 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

SOLD.

So, getting closer to being caught up on all the work that has been here for the past two weeks, if I can finish two more pieces for (50) today, then I can get back to the commissions. Sure it sounds a little backwards doing your own work before finishing commissions, but hey folks, it's not about the money. But just in case it is this is the last weekend to see my stuff at the Wilson 96 and it would be great to sell four paintings, seriously. Some of this work will move to Shampoo Hair Salon in Kensington Market for the month of November and the rest will come home with me, I don't have much luck selling work out of hair salons, probably a karma thing, I haven't paid for a haircut in at least seven years but it's nice to have the work out there.

These pond Goons turned out really well, regardless what these photos look like.

I don't think I've done any sports related pieces in awhile, maybe the Joan of Arc fencer, anyways I put these up yesterday at the Wilson around 6 pm, and one of the tenants who lives upstairs came in to get change or whatever and he immediately walked right over to where the were hung, didn't look at the pieces along the way, just went right to da goons.

A.S.H

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Oh those crazy Sisters.

The White Glove Test (#40)

11 x 14 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

$180.00

There's something about the minimal events that take place between these two that cheers me up to no end, as seen in "The Light Sleepers" and "The Sisters", I can't wait to see what they're going to do next.

Thoughts on this series called, (50), it's like Canadiana via Smiths album covers.

The Opening at the Press Club will be Sunday,Dec. 5th, work is already selling from this show, this is both encouraging and a bit frightening.

A.Shay Hahn

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(50) some progress.

Morning (#42) SOLD, Morning (#41) SOLD

10 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed

Trying to get caught up, really bloody trying.

A.Shay Hahn

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