Illustration pen pal: fossil

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My illustration pen pal loaned me another Griffin and Sabine book, and I returned it wrapped in multiple layers of tissue paper so that opening each layer was like digging through the layers of the earth.

photo of outer wrapper, brown paper with construction paper shovel; handle reads "let's see what we can dig up"
Outer wrapper (shovel, address, and postage)

photo of second layer, green tissue paper for the organic layer, doodles of grass
Organic layer (grass)

photo of third layer, light brown tissue paper for topsoil; doodles of bugs and worms and roots
Topsoil

photo of fourth layer, darker brown tissue paper for subsoil; doodles of small rocks
Subsoil

photo of fifth layer, blue for parent layer or groundwater; smooth lines drawn on to represent water

Photo of sixth layer representing bedrock; dark brown tissue paper covered with rock facets in marker

photo of dinosaur skeleton reference image, sketch, and final drawing
Reference -> sketch -> final

photo of seventh layer of wrapping around the book; black tissue paper with dinosaur fossil drawing taped on

photo of unwrapped book
The book was cleverly hidden under the fossil layer of tissue paper


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