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(More customer reviews)"View from a Sketchbook" is a lovely album of watercolors by Marjolein Bastin, the illustrator of the children's books starring Vera the Mouse, and Tovah Martin, who kept a journal of Marjolein's nature walks during a full year from spring through winter. They spent the year at the Bastin's home in a carefully tended patch of Missouri prairie, visiting the Bastin's old home in Ede in central Holland, and on vacation on Grand Cayman.
There are three dozen full-page illustrations and numerous little sketches, sometimes just a single bumblebee or eggshell. You can see the love and care that goes into every little detail. Even the list of contents is terminated with a tiny ladybug. And the cover of the book underneath the dust jacket is decorated with a frieze of Canada geese with a family of chicks. This is an exquisitely beautiful book from the rabbit on the first page to the Giant Swallowtail on the last.
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View from a Sketchbook provides an intimate portrait of nature artist (and top-selling Hallmark artist/designer) Marjolein Bastin as she works through the seasons of the year to create her art. Together with nature writer Tovah Martin, Bastin demonstrates her unique ability to partake fully of the world around her. In her lovely watercolors, Bastin captures the natural world's fleeting beauty; through her example, the reader will understand how to find those treasures for him- or herself. This is a charming book for Bastin's many fans, or for anyone who loves the natural world.
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