Apparitions: Watercolor Paintings by Moira Hahn

California-based painter Moira Hahn's meticulously detailed watercolor paintings are inspired by nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints ('Ukiyo-e', also known as the 'Art of the Floating World') and animation. She worked as an animator in Hollywood before embarking on careers in illustration, and later, fine art. Many of her compositions draw from classical Japanese Kabuki theater and Bunraku puppet performances, which she attended in Japan, and observation of interactions between birds and animals in her back yard.

Moira Hahn's art has been featured in Time Magazine (including on a cover), Juxtapoz, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times, in BoingBoing, and in numerous exhibitions at galleries and museums in the United States, Canada and Japan. This is her first book, featuring 36 pages of color reproductions of some of her best paintings, creatively recombined and beautifully printed in a handsome, small-format art book.

Paperback: 36 pages
Publisher: Moira Hahn; 2nd edition (2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615991645
ISBN-13: 978-0615991641
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5 x 0.2 inches
Weight: 4 ounces

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“Ukiyo-e Re-Mix Series/ Attack of the Tengu II”. 24” x 18” poster of a cat samurai swordsman vs. four feisty tengu. Beautifully printed, limited color poster, with pale grey borders. Hand-signed in ink.

Image size is 18 3/4” x 13”.

Text reads, left to right, ‘Damn Tengu !’; ‘Moira Hahn’; ‘(Year of the) Rooster’.

$40, including packing and shipping, within continental US (sorry, not available internationally).

Image size: 18 3/4” x 13”
Paper Size: 24” x 18”
Made in the USA.

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Hand made Japanese Woodblock Print of 'Blue Moon' from the Year of the Dog Series. Limited, closed, signed edition of 200, hand signed by the artist.

Produced in Tokyo by Takumi Mokuhanga Kobo, a small (two artist) woodblock print atelier. Its principal carver, Mr. Motoharu Asaka, has over forty years experience carving traditional woodblock prints in Japan, and also produces them for Masami Teraoka. The inker, Mr.Satoshi Nishimura, also has over forty years experience in printing ukiyo-e prints. They co-founded the atelier in 1999.

Both sides of 15 woodblocks (mostly cherry wood) were carved to make the print. On some sides, two or three separate colors were inked. When two colors are used on one side, Takumi counts it as two blocks. Therefore, 42 blocks means 42 colors were used.

Some colors also required different tones (different hues or values), so extra printings were needed to achieve the range in the original painting. The finished image totaled 71 inkings per woodblock print. The paper it's printed on is Japanese washi, a traditional printmaking paper made from mulberry bark. This paper was produced in Japan by a 9th generation Japanese National Treasure Mr. Ichibei Iwano, of Fukui Prefecture. It's an Oban format print, the traditional size popular in the 18th and 19th century. The unframed size is 15" x 10". The edition was made in Japan in 2009 and 2010.

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"Raijin Tiger" 20" x 16", full color, hand-signed art poster. The image is centered on a solid black background. He is a tiger version of Raijin, the Shinto God of lightning and thunder. Raijin tiger is carrying traditional, Edo period taiko drum sticks that look like barbells. The text says “Raijin Tiger”.

Hand-signed in ink.

Made in the USA.

$30 within continental US.

Image Size: 13 3/4” x 11.5”

Paper Size (includes black background): 20” x 16”

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