Seasonal Produce & Seasonal Baking
...and the Origin Story of my Panel Art
I always look forward to a long list of seasonal delights this time of year, including listening to my favorite holiday music, watching holiday movies, decorating our holiday (Christmas) tree, feeling cozy in fuzzy fleece and flannel sheets, making & drinking Glüwein (German mulled wine), cooking & eating Fall produce, and baking & eating my favorite holiday treats…just to name a few!
In 2020 I captured some of my favorite Fall seasonal produce in my art November produce.
After baking my favorite holiday treats a few weeks later, I created my Holiday Baking art using a similar layout.
The Origin Story of my Panel Art
For both November produce and Holiday Baking I experimented with using panels in my art for the first time (panels are single subjects or scenes with frames—often black borders—like you see in comics). I’ve always loved comics and I’m sure my panel art is influenced by this genre!
I found I really enjoyed creating panel art, combining different-but-related subjects, each in its own panel, into a single piece of art. I enjoyed it so much that a lot of my art since then has been created using panels!
My art of Tohono Chul Park in 2021, Rose Canyon in 2022, and my Tucson Yard Journal series which I started in 2022 are more recent examples of my panel art. Here are mini versions of these; you can see larger versions of Tohono Chul Park, Rose Canyon, and my Tucson Yard Journal series on my website.
If you want to learn more about panel art and comics in general, I highly recommend Scott McCloud’s classic book, Understanding Comics. And I hope you, too, have the opportunity to enjoy your favorite seasonal delights!
Interesting approach to panels. I am reading Stay As You Are by Brad Yung and he used to make Non Sequitor comics in which each panel was independent, but the panels were like a camouflaged larger image, e.g. sideways Hello Kitty.