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

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.

Foolish September

A flyer I designed

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.

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.

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!

Redlands Reprise

Quite a while ago I created a quick composition of a photo I had taken for use as a Facebook profile picture.

ugh is he talking about fb? lame

 It got lost in the shuffle and I rediscovered it, deciding I'd like to prepare it for screen printing posters.  
They haven't been printed yet, but if you're interested keep your eyes on the blog, they'll show up sooner or later.

REMIIIIX

Variant

Leo Trio

Star signs are weird. Leos are, in my experience, pretty cool though.

Hail Rock Selfy

Self portrait: Rock & Roll style !!

Bonus Inversion Version:

What Time Is It?

ADVENTURE TIME! C'mon grab your friends. 

I have a lot of obsessions (I call them hobbies) but one of the bigger ones is Adventure Time. What a show! Of course you've already seen it and agree that it is flat out impressive, so just for fun I threw together a little illustration of Jake and Lady Rainicorn.

Jake must be seeing through his MIND's eye.

It's rough but maybe someday I'll clean it up and screenprint it? Who knows.

VietZom Grrl

I've been working on this one for a long time. I think I'm finally satisfied with the final product:

Close-up

It went through a million iterations. Here's some pictures to convey (part of) my process:

Layers: Not just for Adobe

Trying to find a good color scheme.

Supermarket Model

It's amazing where you can find beauty.

Everybody 8

So I make this mix CD every winter and summer and hand them out to worthy music fanatics. Just kidding I give them out to basically anyone. If you want one let me know. I said I'd send a lot out in the mail to all you out-of-towners, but please remind me. Here is the cover & tracklist I designed for the latest one.

A. Leo Collab 1

I recently had the proposition to collaborate with a photographer I know in Chicago. She was open to any interpretation that I could think of involving of her photos, so it has been a very open-ended & as-of-yet ongoing project.

This is a simple illustration I did of one of the photos she lent me:

I am playing around with creating a more photo-manipulation oriented piece using her photos as well, which I'll post at a later date.

Kids Music Swamp

I've been doing this design blog for a couple of months now. I've always wanted to do a music blog though. I made one up, called "Kids Music Swamp" (titled as such for reasons I can't recall,) that I will be tinkering around with in the coming months. Here's a logo I made for it:

 

Be sure to check it out in the near future for updates on the MPLS music scene.

Girl from the North Country

Beautiful things oft make interesting subjects for art. Overdone? Maybe. But I'm not complaining.

Cyclops

This is an illustration I made just for fun. I need to keep designing or I'll die -- like a shark -- even though I'm in the middle of moving into a new place. Without further ado;

Flying Fortress Preflight

Hi friends. This is another "field trip" post wherein I am screenprinting a new design.

"Flying Fortress" will be my screen printing handle, for no reason other than that it has a nice ring to it. But here is a flagship shirt I created under that moniker.

She is beautiful but broken.

Gotta burn the image

Gotta flood the image

Glorious selfy

photo by Tim Hohn

All done! It took some trial and error (which can be very costly) but I mastered it. I'm satisfied, but what do you think?

I'll be back this weekend with more fun stuff. Until then!

 PS:

These shirts are for sale, and it would be awesome if you wanted one, to show your support for the local arts, or for whatever reason! 

This first run consisted of 9 (NINE!) shirts total, so if you want some in this color be sure to let me know quick! 

They are currently only $10 (!), e-mail:

Jeffrey (at) Kidjerf (dot) com to order!