I wanted to create a companion piece to The Kiss of Atra Mors for the Underworlds and Afterlives show. Originally set out to depict a woman who was barren, to explore the feeling of being a cemetery inside. But I kept being drawn back to an inspiration of recent, Pierre Hubert’s absolutely stunning Always and Never. It became the image of a pregnant woman in the grips of a grim reaper, and where Atras Mors was warm and golden, this couples’ romance became cold and moonlit. I’m not sure what I even interpret about the pair. It started to remind me of one of my own loves that seemed stillborn, the feeling of being achingly in love, yet without the other person there, in love with someone absent. I started to wonder if rather than the skeletal figure being a force there to reap an unborn child, if he was perhaps the child’s father, and the mother, regardless of his being only dust and bone, still flushes with the same rapture and adoration at his touch.
Sempre Nunquam, or; The Only Picture of You and Me.
Graphite, Watercolor, Watercolor Paper, Metallic Oil Marker, Acrylic, Photoshop.
Pandora Young. 2012.
Inspirations: Marcos Chin
During the Emily Carr Illustration Club’s New York City trip this summer I had the very great pleasure and honor to meet many artists in the field. One of those artists I would like to introduce you to today. Clench everything; he’s a goodun.
We arrived in the Brooklyn studio of Marcos Chin to discover a spread of blueberries and fastidiously cubed cheese. “Can I get you some tea?” called the artist, busying himself with a plug in kettle in the kitchen space. The twenty of us descended upon the cheese.
No holds barred, he showed us every last piece back into his history, shared with us every nook and cranny of his work space, happy to share anything we might want to see or know.
Chin’s style has ranged far and wide, and after years of struggle he’s found one I, and many others, find particularity alluring, and with it the commercial success he deserves. I love Chin’s work, with its elegant, fine lines and muted colors. I love his sense of pattern, his subject matter, and his every so slightly dark sense of humor.
But most of all, I loved Marcos. As a stood in his studio, dixie cup of tea in hand, watching as he spilled open his enormous collection, I remember thinking that art was great and all, but really I just wanted to have him over to a slumber party. Luxuriating in flanel, talking about boys (and art and stuff) with Marcos Chin, has become a fantasy.
Nicest dude.
A little preview of my work with Vancouver Island’s Mythic Brewing company!! I never do typography and it’s been a pleasant surprise just how much fun it is. Please do forgive the typological sins I’m quite sure are peppered throughout this work; The logo’s in the goofing around stage (technical art-person term) so this is just rough.
I’m creating five labels for their delicious beers so check back for more updates on the project as it emerges like the Lord Cthulu from the black depth.
Finished Pam Grier velvet painting complete with hyperbolically gaudy frame.
Ragnarok; or, Pam Grier with a Shot Gun
2012. Pandora Young
This piece was created in a single eleventh hour allnighter with fellow Emily Carr student Peter Hamilton Short for the Emily Carr Illustration Club’s Velvet Show. Not even sure it was dry when we hung it. Props on bitchin’ concept Pete.
Coollidge at Moe’s
2012. Pandora Young and Peter Hamilton Short.
My Train Manager Peter has been asking me weeks on end for a piece of my work. So I painted this portrait of him comptroling the hell out of a recent train evacuation situation.
Based in part on the awesome shot taken by my coworker, the incredibly kind and lovely miss Dominique Briggs!
Train Manager; Portrait of Peter Maseja.
Pandora Young. 2012
These are my final affixed beer labels for my Dip in the Barrel brand beer! I also brewed the beer inside the bottles at the local U-Brew and she’s delish. I only brewed a single kind so the color of the actual brews don’t exactly match their label, but this is ameliorated by ingesting the product. Have to say it was a pretty fun project;) Still not perfect but I learned a lot about logos and label design and layout, which I had no sense of at all when I started. So cheers!
*Oh! And I’d originally made these for cans and forgot to change the mL’s over. Really mad at myself for that but oh well:)
The Christmas card I made for my train managers at Rocky Mountaineer to thank them for such a great season! Might have gone a little overboard, but that said I don’t think Martha Stewart could have done no better:)
Anderson.
Pandora Young. 2009
Created this humble infographic tutorial for the Emily Carr Illustration Club, of which I am a proud member and whose blog I manage:)
I’m not very good at formatting anything with layout or text so please forgive it if it’s kind of gimpy in parts!
That being said I hope any of you in Vancouver would partake in the invitation to come down April 21st to Chapel Arts gallery to see our Velvet Show! Monocles and top hats encouraged.
How to make a Velvet Painting.
Pandora Young. 2012.
Weekly autobiographical comic for Illustration class.
This one’s kind of meh. This term’s extended state of crunch time, all nighters, and constant creative taxation is getting weary.
It’s also been pointed out to me that there seems to be a running theme of butts in my work this year. This is a surprise departure to me from last year’s focus on hipsters, robots, and robot hipsters. And it’s pretty unintentional as most of the time the butts are just the butt of jokes. Pause for laughter. However, big, round, luscious posteriors are extremely approved of in my books; I even have one myself.
Small Moment Story Boards - Week Ten
Pandora Young. 2012
A book I bound for a birthday gift to my little sister! She’d given me a gift the year before wrapped in a really beautiful tissue paper with little birds, so scanned and I regifted it:) I used a kind of stitch called ‘Coptic binding’ that was developed by Christians in Egypt in the second century for Bibles! It was murder figuring out:)
Pandora Young. 2011
I took a book binding course last year and was hooked. Here is a little notebook I made for myself with three quarter leather binding and gold embossing:) It’s not perfect but I got to learn how to use the hot foil press that the university keeps hidden from the light of day almost year round! And let me tell you, once you put gold embossing on one thing, you want it on everything.
Pandora Young. 2011
Work in progress! This week’s assignment was to create a beer label! Frankly, after searching the interwebs far and wide, I can’t believe no one’s thought of this concept yet. After all, beer and sex go together like beer and sex, despite the former often debauching the latter. Anyway, it’s not all together the most creative idea I’ve ever had, but I liked it, and in my defense I did think of it stumbling upon an awesome old bit of prohibition era slang about taking a ‘dip in the barrel.’ And come on, who hasn’t had this fantasy? What’s more sensual that the tack of dried beer on the naked skin?
She was originally intended to be a beer maid but wound up as more of a pin-up, and after airing the concept thumbnails I followed the urging to the lovely Miss Nomi Chi to sex it up as loud as it would go. This is just my basic graphic so I’ll throw together a more finished, recognizable logo after, having spent the last three days producing work for this and another project, I lie flat on the floor and dephotoshop my lower ten vertabrae…. gimme a minute….
OH! But I’ll mention, I’m brewing actual beer to place these labels on. Suck a bag of cocks, all my class mates! Haha!! I’m totally kidding though, my classmates are lovely people.
Dip in the Barrel Brand Beer Logo - In Progress
Pandora Young. 2012.
Underworlds and Afterlives Suite
Pandora Young. 2012