An Illustrator’s Paean to Stuff? See for Yourself

Hold the hoarding, bring the purposeful mess. So says Durell Godfrey, thematically, artistically, literally, in her just-out “Color Me Cluttered: A Coloring Book to Transform Everyday Chaos Into Art” (Perigee, $15). Ms. Godfrey, an East Hampton illustrator and photographer once with Glamour magazine and now with The Star, will talk about her work and the book and sign copies of it tomorrow at 5 p.m. at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor. 

“To me, clutter is beautiful,” she writes in the introduction, “the stuff of our everyday lives. Adding a dash of color (or a rich palette — whatever you fancy) makes these illustrations feel like home,” and may be therapeutic for the congenitally stressed.

There follows page after charming page of drawings heavy on plants and Sunday-best hats, often featuring a lounging cat, and stuff, stuff, stuff: all manner of printed material, paintbrushes and colored pencils, socks and scarves. What’s more, an embedded seek-and-find game will have you searching out stray coffee cups, eyeglasses, lava lamps, and — why not? — a penguin or two.