Hello, my name is Sabina Hahn,
and I'm a doodle addict. brooklyn NY

Sabina Hahn is a Brooklyn based illustrator, animator and sculptor who loves stories and tall tales. Sabina is a master of capturing subtle fleeting expressions and the most elusive of gestures.

I specialize in children illustration, illustration, kid lit art, watercolour.

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Omens and Superstitions. In Japan there is a superstition that if a cup or glass containing medicine for a sick person is accidentally upset, then it is an omen of that person's speedy recovery. From "A DICTIONARY OF OMENS AND SUPERSTITIONS" by Philippa Waring

Advice from fairy tales. Whatever is worth doing, is worth overdoing. https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVA1fNhByP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I shall not tell you than two woods. Só vôs dirêi ôu lhê dirêi dúas palavras. "English as She is Spoke" by Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolina. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ6NOMVBnS_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

nyc subway. N is for napping

Live as you once did; if this is not possible, live twice. - Mary Ruefle #poetry #maryRuefle #watercolor

Undress you to. "English as She is Spoke" is a delightful example of incompetence and bad judgement. Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolina set out to write a Portuguese-English phrasebook. The only problem was that they didn't speak any English. They did know some French and armed with French-English phrasebook, dictionaries and enthusiasm they brought forth this book. Mark Twain was an early admirer of this book. "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect, it must and will stand alone: its immortality is secure."

"I think I know how to get my soul back," I said. From “Tacky Goblin” by T. Sean Steele. https://instagram.com/p/B1jOw5OhHNe/

Gramma Polly packs quite a pinch. See more images from the series: https://www.instagram.com/p/CT7rVNgLezM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart In a 1782 letter to his sister, he gave a detailed account of these hectic days in Vienna: "My hair is always done by six o’clock in the morning and by seven I am fully dressed. I then compose until nine. From nine to one I give lessons. Then I lunch..." From "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work", edited and with text by Mason Currey.

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) “I get up at about eight, do physical exercises, then work without a break from nine till one,” Stravinsky told an interviewer in 1924. Generally, three hours of composition were the most he could manage in a day, although he would do less demanding tasks—writing letters, copying scores, practicing the piano—in the afternoon. Unless he was touring, Stravinsky worked on his compositions daily, with or without inspiration, he said. He required solitude for the task, and always closed the windows of his studio before he began: “I have never been able to compose unless sure that no one could hear me.” If he felt blocked, the composer might execute a brief headstand, which, he said, “rests the head and clears the brain.” - From Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey

Beginning. The Unforgiving Tree. Once there was a tree... https://www.instagram.com/p/CQeBCxghBtm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Yours parents does exist yet? Aínda vivem ôs vóssos ôu sêus páes? "English as She is Spoke" by Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolina.

Curl up with a good book. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPbQ7xp8AD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Catty corner or kitty corner or also cater cornered. Such a weird expression that today I learned is to be identified with obsolete cater “four”, from Middle French quatre. Favorite words. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq8Dw2QO_Vr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

16. Dangerous drops. Prompts are from @janelle.shane generated using the OpenAI net GPT-3. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQpHCvraU-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The hows of how to balance. https://www.instagram.com/p/CanaXjjlhRy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Mark Twain (1835–1910) In the 1870s and ’80s, the Twain family spent their summers at Quarry Farm in New York, about two hundred miles west of their Hartford, Connecticut, home. Twain found those summers the most productive time for his literary work, especially after 1874, when the farm owners built him a small private study on the property. That same summer, Twain began writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. His routine was simple: he would go to the study in the morning after a hearty breakfast and stay there until dinner at about 5:00. Since he skipped lunch, and since his family would not venture near the study—they would blow a horn if they needed him—he could usually work uninterruptedly for several hours. “On hot days,” he wrote to a friend, “I spread the study wide open, anchor my papers down with brickbats, and write in the midst of the hurricane, clothed in the same thin linen we make shirts of.” Whether or not he was working, he smoked cigars constantly. One of his closest friends, the writer William Dean Howells, recalled that after a visit from Twain, “the whole house had to be aired, for he smoked all over it from breakfast to bedtime.” - From Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” ― Mark Twain #dailyrituals #inktober #MarkTwain @masoncurrey

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Collage with found words.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." Marie Curie From a prompt for Transmundane Tuesdays by Carson Ellis.

This is how you have the cake and eat it too. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXef5Nnpkuy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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