New Website Up and Running!

The new site is up, a little cleaner, a little easier, more work, more . . . pizazz?  Anyway, have a look - I'm still in sort of a beta testing period.  So there maybe some small changes yet to be done, but it feels good to have it up and working.

jasharawan.com 4.0

I just revamped my website—check it out!

New is Good.

After months of planning and about a million and one emails between myself and my web guru, Jashar Awan, the new site is up, running, and ready for your viewing pleasure!

New sections include design+lifestyle and interiors work, as well as a tight portfolio facelift in the art+illustration department.

Jashar did a stupendous job of programming the site and making my, often-too-particular-vision come to life.
Spend some time, take a look around and let me know what you think!

This is you. No, this is you.

My buddy Owen Sherwood and I are going to be doing a two man show curated by Emma Copely (do check out her paintings) up in the Collar City, the Home of Uncle Sam, beautiful Troy, NY at the Capital Region Artcenter.  We both grew up right outside of Troy so it's going to be sweet to have a big space to fill and show all our old high school enemies that we are . . . artists. . .  As part of the show, we're doing a little project: This is you. No this is you. : a series of insults back and forth that we'll eventually be putting together as a sprawling piece for the show.   Fortunately, I had the good sense to make it a blog: Owen has the foresight of drunk garden tool trapped in a cabinet.  We're just getting started and it's a lot of fun,  so keep checking it out from time to time!

Melissa Ling

Check out Melissa Ling's work.  Another recent Pratt graduate, she's got a great sense for quiet images that really have a visual punch to them, along with some knockout drawing skills!

Sachin Teng

Another one of my former students who's doing some really nice work. Sachin's got some pretty nasty skills and he's as good on traditional as digital. I think what I like best about his stuff is his use of subject matter as design element, without turning it into simple pattern - he really keeps it dynamic.

Phillip Knight's Sketchbook Book

I was delighted to be a part of UK illustrator and designer Phillip Knight's new book "GARP: Sketchbook Process" which includes some really great illustrators and designers. It totally gives you the voyeuristic pleasure of picking someone's brain along with peeking in their sketchbooks. One of the other people featured and a new favorite is Iain Macarthur - I love his mix of obsessive tightness and pattern, coupled with his pure draughtsmanship and dynamism.

Owen Sherwood

My old college roomie and great illustrator Owen Sherwood has some new pieces up on his blog including a great series on the world cup. I love his combination of pencil and digital.

Kelsey Bohlinger

I love this new one from my friend Kelsey Bohlinger for a local radio station T-Shirt contest. As a recent graduate she's just getting warmed up, but I think she's going to be a monster!

new portfolio site

Please check out this site that I'm using as a temporary portfolio space as I take some time to do a much-needed update to spoonstudio.com (Jashar, help!)
The navigation is extremely basic, but the images are big and bright and hopefully do the work some justice.

See it here:
http://wotherspoon.grandportfolio.com/

Eric White

Eric White's been a favorite since I was in school. He's a nice guy, great painter, fits admirably in the back of a cab for a man his size, and if you haven's seen his new collection of reworked album covers, you're really missing out. In these record size paintings (12x12) he lets some really beautiful impasto and brushwork in contrasting with the spot on rendering and slavishly redone and very witty type.

THERSIC

Our Kiersten Essenpreis has been a a busy little bee. Along with getting her Etsy site up stocked with a bunch of great new drawings, she's been collaborating with her betrothed, industrial designer Wes Cox on THERSIC, which continues to develop into one of my favorite blogs on the internet. They share a great aesthetic that's somewhere between American-industrial neo-classicism and a dystopian-pop-circus fusion. They've also kept up a pretty rigorous posting regime, so if you haven't checked it out, there's a boat load of great posts.

Frederik Jurk

Check out German illustrator Frederik Jurk's work here and his blog here.

Curious Pages

Curious Pages, a children's book blog by Lane Smith and Bob, warns the reader, "Looking for books about teddy bears or rainbows or feelings? You’re at the wrong place. Here we celebrate the offbeat, the abstract, the unusual, the surreal, the macabre, the inappropriate, the subversive and the funky."

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Avery Hologram's 365 Draweteria

Check out the work of Avery Hologram, the "composite personality consisting of AVERY SQUARE aka SARAH LOCKE aka FOUND MAGAZINE's CARDIOLOGIST and BRIAN HOLOGRAM aka DAN JAMES aka GHOSTSHRIMP's GHOSTSCOUT LEADER."

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Sneak Peek

Madeline Valentine gives us a sneak peek at her upcoming children's book!

Jack Teagle

Check out Jack Teagle's sardonic stuff. He's got a sweet sketchbook of portraits and a really nice animation on his blog.

Jill Calder

Check out UK illustrator Jill Calder's spontaneous mixed media illustrations here.

Miss Lisa Ramsey

Lisa Ramsey has a nice selection of drawings and some cool black and white comixxx (her preferred spelling). I'm looking forward to seeing more!

Rachel Domm

Our former classmate Rachel Domm relaunched her website! Check it out here.