Leah in the Belmont

This is the apartment building my friend Leah & I live in. It's over 100 years old and parts of it get pretty weird.

Yupo Models

As a supplement to some of my sketches, I started playing around with Yupo.

Sheet of Yupo on the right 

For the uninformed, Yupo is a thin, semi-opaque sheet of plastic material that can act as tracing paper. You can draw on it with most mediums, but it does not absorb ink. This allows for paint or ink to remain workable for longer periods.

Watercolor & Graphite on Yupo

Originally Illustrated July 2013

Villains Back Patch

These were some back patches I had screenprinted. Inspired by metal & punk culture, I chose the word Villains and ran with it. It's not a real band or gang or anything at all. Just a word, open to interpretation.

E.E. U.U. is Spanish for Estados Unidos (USA for all you laymen) and signifies Villains' country of origin. Duh.

Originally printed June 2013

Art-a-Whirl GIF

Lizzie & Maru somewhere @ Art-a-Whirl

Everybody 12

Newly produced is the winter edition of my just-for-fun biannual Mix CD: Everybody 12.

Cover Art

Track List!

I encourage all who did not receive a physical copy to check out the songs on iTunes or Soundcloud, cause these are these are like, some choice cuts, man.

S.O.S. Save Our Sage

Just wanted to quick post this up; despite the event having long since past. I designed and screen printed a poster to promote and be sold for a benefit event on behalf of Sage Ugstad & her medical costs.

 

It printed nicely with a border on a few different colored stocks.

Mind the blur.

Chasm

As mentioned in my GIGI x CLICHE x KID JERF post, I had debuted three new prints. I titled these three prints "Chasm eras I II & III." Here they are in a larger format:

They each measure 12"x12"

Currently these are not available for purchase online anywhere but please feel free to contact me directly if interested.

Lizzo Bangers Logo

Back in August, longtime friend and local rapper Lizzo asked me to come up with a logo for her debut album. After a lot of deliberation, we decided to go with this one:

As seen on various merch:

Congrats to Lizzo on all the critical acclaim she's been receiving as of late!

BONUS ROUND:
Some logo drafts from the brainstorming process:

UPDATE

Rescued from the file catacombs:

Research at Urban Bean

GIGI x CLICHE x KID JERF

 Gigi Z. and I had a joint effort that took place at Cliche Minneapolis. I had the pleasure of displaying some of my artwork; six screenprints including three new ones.

Six models were chosen to showcase clothes that were not only from Cliche but also were interpretations of the six prints I had on display. Gigi did an amazing job styling:

Eleza | Chasm

Yasmin | Coven

Tasha | Lust

Gigi | Deckay

DJ Jim Frick (of WAKLYF) was also nice enough to spin for the show.

All photographs by the visionary SERENESUPREME.

Thanks to everyone who came out & was involved!
My pieces will be up through November so if you missed the opening night feel free to stop into Cliche anytime in the next month or so!

SERENESUPREME x KidJerf

Moshi moshi (^o^) ! 

This week I am flattered to be featured by lovely and prestigious SereneSupreme. 

Serene Supreme Herself: Fastest Instax in the Midwest

These are some outtakes from the shoot:

w/ Gigi Z

w/ Gigi Z

Uh huh, uh huh BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE: Check out these new prints of my Hipster Trash series for sale on my BigCartel:

kidjerf.bigcartel.com : sure to be a hit with children

Until next time; See you around ;) !

Foolish September

A flyer I designed

Prints For Sale !!

Woop Woop! If you've ever thought "Gee whiz, my walls sure look cold" or "By golly, my eyes are bored!" then boy do I have the website for you!

  

Prints by Jeffrey L. Barr

Gone will be the days where you and your loved ones weep endlessly at a barren slat of drywall. Adorn your walls, because they deserve a gift and they sure can't eat ice cream!!

But yeah, that's where I'll be posting my original, hand-screenprinted art & designs as they come along. Take a gander, you won't regret it ;) ;) ;*

Lust

So, I'm good with paint streaks.
I turned a painting of mine into a screenprint. I call it 'Lust'.

It's a three color print, as you can see, manually printed. Pretty abstract and available for purchase here.

Hipster Trash

Y'all remember my post waaay back? Sure you do. Well I finally transferred the idea from my computer to THE 4TH DIMENSION by way of silkscreen.

Behold!

I guess I call it Hipster Trash. I'm doing another (new object) to be part of the series in the next week or so.

One color down.

Tah-Dah!

These were all manually screenprinted by yours truly on 20"x23" French Paper Co. Pop-Tone Blu Raspberry cover stock. There's also a variant! Yellow! Mmm like butter.

Or Lemonade!

Yellow Variant: edition of 6 (only SIX!) and Teal: edition of 18.

Just to be clear about this:

KID JERF IN NO WAY CONDONES using a dinky digital camera in poor lighting to convey pieces of art. Sorry about that.

Available for purchase here.

Foolish February

Monthly flyer I did for a night at the Kitty Cat Klub featuring members of MPLS digital supa-crew, Foolish Bastard Family.

Listen to:
Connie Hawkins 
Enron Hubbard 
Diamondeye 
Adora Tokyo 
and 1990 doesn't have a Soundcloud (?)

Go check it out. Good music and free and drinks.

Everybody 10

Oh yeah, I made a new mix CD for everybody. Except for only 25 of everybody, since it is a limited edition out of 25.

The front cover.

Contact me if interested.

Sing About Me

Ay! Made some album artwork for a new single by 1990 & the Larva Ink.

Check the track out the sveltly sexy Drum n' Bass track here.

Sun Mountain

This is a piece that I made a while ago, which will tentatively be used for a pal's album artwork, but for now I just had it printed on canvas. 

Industry!

Disclaimer: The symbolism represented in the following images do not necessarily reflect the feelings or opinions of Kid Jerf nor any of the domesticated animals owned and cared for by Kid Jerf.

Color Variants

Update:

Eventually this became a screenprint!