Here's a few of the photo shoots by Tracy Morford I worked on, as seen on the Working Class Magazine website.



And here's a photo compositing project done for Amberly Valentine. Love her sets so much!

3rd Annual BIRD BEAK Group Show

Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 11:55pm
Location: Headquarters Studio
Street: 385 Broadway (btwn White & Walker St) 2nd Fl
City/Town: New York, NY

BIRD BEAK is a collective founded by young New York City artists. This will be our third exhibition at the renowned alternative space Headquarters Studio. We invited select artists to make work in a uniform format. Individually each piece will provide a 12"x12" window into an artists world. Together, they will form a surreal movie reel that spans the entire gallery. One night only, with dancing to follow.

including work from
Christian Siriano, Ray Sell, Tuffer Weidner, Nick Dyball, Elizabeth Morahan, John Hagan, Seth Mulvey, Christopher Duffy, Greg Hedderman, Brendan Winick, John De la O, Miller Lopez, Jaz Harold, Heather Sporing, Ryan Beckwith, Donna Cleary, Augustus Nazzaro, Jazz-minh Moore, Eunkang Koh, Tim Francisco, Vicent Scala, Victor Cox, Jessica Ruliffison, Diana Ho, Becca Kacanda, Samantha Hyatt, Jennifer Young, Justin Jordan, Abbey Beck, Meg Woodcheke, Carmelina Licata, Tom Pitili, Juilia Lachman, Eric Gallea, John Ryan Solis, Ameila Midori, Miller The Nerds

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!


Also, I haven't updated in a very long time.
I'm booked back to back with work.. since about 3 weeks ago... until at least another week from now. Lots of 12-16 hours days. Including weekends. Exhausted.

Was featured on artistaday.com on May 6th (link here: http://www.artistaday.com/?p=3914)

And artist if the week on Art Nouveau Magazine's Website (http://artnouveaumagazine.com/blog3/2009/05/06/artist-of-the-week-jaz-harold/)


AND, finally got some good pictures of my 3D work thanks to Tracy.

So I'll be a part of the Art Market again at Destination (32-36 Little West 12th St) which will be opening April 30th 6-8pm.

4 paintings, 1 drawing, 1 sculpture from my end, plus tons of stuff from other artists!

I got a bunch of my paintings out of storage from CT this week. I really like this one.. it was about 98% complete, I had just never finished the black outlines. So, with relatively little work here's a nice piece to add to my series on mental health disorders:


Split Personality: 18x24" oil on stretched linen canvas.

I also found the painting of lilies with syringe pistons I had made for my first tattoo 5 years ago which I'm still kind of fond of. Will add that here shortly.

Lady Gaga
12x12" oil on Strathmore illustration board.
Kind of knocked off my own old work on this one. But it's mine anyway. So who cares?

I'm thinking I may make a brief trip to CT sometime soon to grab some old artwork I don't like (to put it very lightly) anymore, which I will then proceed to paint over and destroy (improve?) so as not to be ashamed of them any longer! I'm wondering if this could turn into a collab project instead though.. or half and half. Then I get to destroy someone else's old work while they scribble over mine!
I'll have to bring this up at the next crit meet up (next Friday I think?).

Retouching site has been massively updated, including finally adding the Asics 2009 ad campaign (although unfortunately I lost most of the before shots for the campaign along with my hard drive that stopped working out of nowhere). Also lots of the shots I worked on with Tracy, a Russian Standard Vodka Ad (I did two, but can't find a finish for the second anywhere), and portraits from various freelance jobs.

Illustration site ALSO just updated. But not so much of a content overhaul, just reorganizing (into "illustrations" and "fine art" rather than painting/drawing). I did finally add the Mock Zingers ad campaign I was commissioned for last summer though. I was so busy with my soul-sucking full time job at the time that I never got around to it.

3 for the proposed magazine print ads (unfortunately the text was never added to these- it would read the same as the website section though- "Zingers, they own you"




And then 3 images for the website game component of the ad campaign. (There are also the uncolored uncropped pen versions on my site).




Thanks, Ridge, for being my Zingers poster boy. As well as, as my most physically fit friend, the least likely candidate to ever go near Zingers, or anything remotely resembling snack cake.

I can't sleep, as usual, so maybe it's time to do an actual entry instead of just pictures with little to no text.

On a topic that has both nothing to do with me, and nothing to do with illustration, this student film is amazing, and everyone should take the 12 minutes out to watch it:

Watch Death to the Tinman


Spent 15+ straight hours Sunday (into Monday) doing some emergency last minute retouching for Tracy Morford. I love working on her stuff, so no complaints once I finally got some sleep the next afternoon.









My friend's aunt, who I've known since I was 8 or 9 just commissioned me to do an invite for a birthday party for her and her friend. It's nothing to write home about, but I do like how the cartoon in a photo effect makes me think of Jessica Rabbit.


Some more retouching work for Michael Tammaro to get done today, then hopefully I'll be able to finish the long-in-progress Lady Gaga painting sitting on my drafting table.

Pill Pals Panda silouhette for packaging

Yasutaka Nakata <3 v2 ...finished?