Anniversary Party at the Press Club and other locations

Patsy Cline

20 x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

four hundred dollars,

from the show "Pop Goes the Cowboy" (see info below.)

It's coming folks, the mad craft shoppe will celebrate their 4rth Anniversary at The Press Club (850 Dundas West, between Euclid and Manning) on the 9th of May from 7-10 with a "Salon" style show of many works old and new and incredible celebratory prices. Lil' Jimmys Chicken Pickers will be playing. It's gonna be a hootenanny, stay tuned to this space for more news.

Pop Goes the Cowboy at the Cameron House, March 29th - May 4rth, Opening Reception April First from 6-9, with Col. Tom Parker and The Rattlesnake Choir.

Grateful Head, new and old works, April 1rst - May 29th, right across from Trinity Bellwoods Park on Dundas, see posted hours below.

The Done Right Inn, works from Silver, hanging there until they come down, which may be never, Queen West right across from Trinity Bellwoods Park.

Grateful Head, showing in April and May

Scissors I & II

24 x20 inches, acrylic on canvas

$400.00 each

showing at "Grateful Head" April 1rst- May (?)

Dundas & Montrose (right across from Trinity Bellwoods Park)
1006 Dundas Street WestToronto, ON

Hours of operation:Monday: 1pm - 7pm Tuesday: 12pm - 8 pmWednesday: 12 - 6Thursday: 12pm - 8pmFriday: 12pm - 8pmSaturday: 11am - 6pmSunday: closed

I'll be showing work from, "Silver", "Fables" and a few new pieces at Grateful Head for the month of April and also May (I think), there won't be an Opening for this exhibition, but feel free to drop in to have a look around and get your hair cut at the cool salon, cds by local artists are also available here.

madcraftshoppe@live.com

see you at Pop Goes the Cowboy on Wednesday, 6-9 pm.

And God Created...Redux

And God Created...The Cow

And God Created...The Horse

acrylic on canvas, twenty four x twenty four inches

$400.00

from the series, "Pop Goes the Cowboy" at the Cameron House,

Opening Reception, April 1rst, 6-9 pm

I was never happy with these two pieces, never had the right focus for either piece (See tag to the right) so I thought it would be great to pull them out for this show and fix them up, The skies were too blue, the figures were too blurry, the hands looked like really cheap, knock offs of (insert artist's name I forgot here) hands. This is when I enjoy myself most as a painter, I have so many cheap plastic dollar store animals lying around I just pick them up, figured out a reasonable hand position and did them. Originally I'd wanted to do an entire series of them but got sidetracked with other things. I

Two Hundred and Fifty Posts.

I don't usually just blog for blogging's sake, but I'm just having a bitch of a day. I'm pretty lucky/disciplined when it comes to my time at the easel. Today it just isn't happening, nothing is going as planned, I find myself distracted and bothered etc. So I will go have a bath and then maybe work on some things that are completely unrelated to Any How Town, Pop Goes the Cowboy or anything else, maybe that will dislodge this fist sized tumour that has lodged itself in my head.

Had a hot bath, had supper, went for a quick,brisk freeze my ass off walk, met a friend for a pint, asked friends to send me some random words to construct a drawing around, starting drawing, was enjoying that and just messed the board, this day is a total write off. This kind of shit should not be happening right now.

A.S Hahn

Fringe Kids submissions

This was a pleasant distraction for a couple of days, these were submitted to the Toronto Fringe for their "Fringe Kids" poster contest, which is probably painfully obvious and not worth typing, but I did anyway. Not sure when the winner will be announced. I like them both.

Little People, Large Animals

Untitled (Ostrich), Untitled (Pig) SOLD Ares (third) Desperado SOLD

acrylic on canvas16 x 20 inches

two hundred and fifty dollars

From the series, "Pop Goes the Cowboy" at the Cameron House,

Opening Reception, Wed, April 1rst, 6-8 pm

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Still haven't fixed the email link, so copy and paste in your provider to contact me.

Here's a link to the Rattlesnake Choir myspace page.

http://www.myspace.com/rattlesnakechoir

Col. Tom Parker will also be playing. It's gonna be a party folks.

A.S Hahn

More Liberty ( I like the way that sounds)

from top

Royal Eagle, Sunflower, Opium, Killaz 2, Butterfly '06 2

27.5 x 20 inchesmixed media on illy board$500.00from the series, "Pop Goes the Cowboy" at the Cameron House, March 29-30.

Opening Reception, Wed, April 1rst, 6-8 pm

UPDATE I guess I should note here that these are NOT finished pieces, I've continued working on all the boards for the show so things have improved greatly. The finished boards will be posted at the end of the week before I hang the show. I would not hang any of these in their current state.

Liberty Boots, POP GOES THE COWBOY, cont'd

This was the first piece that I started when the idea of the show was proposed, it feels like an overdone sketch, but really isn't very successful, I doubt that it will be included in the show. It's pretty immature, but you have to start somewhere and since I don't usually sketch this is where I began. I like the lettering and will use them in the next "Killaz" piece, which I"m starting now (5:15am) .That hat, which is based on the "Killaz" toe design looks fucking ridiculous and I'm punching myself in the balls for even conceiving of it.

A.S.H

I can't be happy with the work, until I'm happy with the work, so there may be some big changes to these pieces the closer we get to the date of hanging the show, I thought originally I would do nine pieces and be done, but since I"m working in a different way than usual I have to keep coming back to the pieces and changing them and doing new ones. I had to get this far with the work, in order to break the rules.

Killaz,

Psychedelic Devil

Butterfly '06

27.5 x 20 inches, mixed media on illy board

$500.00

Matchbox Rooster

27.5 x 20 inches, mixed media on illy board

$500.00

Here's four more, read all about it below.

POP GOES THE COWBOY at the Cameron House

Brody Rocks

27.5 x 20 inches, mixed media on illy board

$500.00

Classical Bugs

27.5 x 20 inches, mixed media on illy board

$500.00

The Opening party for "Pop Goes the Cowboy" at the Cameron House will be on April 1rst from 6-8 pm, there will be a band, maybe Rattlesnake Choir and perhaps we'll be blesses with catering by Mimi. Pop Goes the Cowboy is the Liberty Boot Co.'s yearly show of Tony Bennatar's amazing cowboy boots, this year he is joined by yours truly, A.Shay Hahn, I'm illustrating nine or ten different styles of Liberty Boots for you to marvel at.

A.S Hahn