wild and wondrous world

The best part of the book signings of the past few weekends has been watching people draw on pages. I’ve added lots of fabulous new work to the PhotoPlay Gallery, pages created at Left Bank Books in Belfast, Maine, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. And I’ve also added some pages that have been emailed to me. Like one below, created collaboratively by Evelyn (age 7, on the left) and Jane (age 19, on the right).

Here’s Jane’s page:

Here’s Evelyn’s:

And here’s their finished page, part Seuss, part Sempe, part Evelyn, part Jane, and part un-nameable je ne sais quoi that happens when people draw collaboratively:

For more hand-drawn inspiration, take a look at the more than 350 works in the PhotoPlay Gallery, and then, download some free pages for yourself, including this new page: