SACO, Maine — Artist Lewis Rossignol begins scratching out his trademark, jagged drawings with thick and shaky magic marker outlines. He then fills in his creations, scribbling outside the lines, with layered colored pencil and pastel slashes.
His grotesque human and animal characters often grin with mouthfuls of crooked, yellowed teeth. They stare with both bloodshot eyes on one side of their heads.
At first glance, his flattened, two-dimensional pictures appear to have been created by a deranged toddler with access to art supplies and an espresso machine…