About this title: 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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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781584793533ISBN:1584793538
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781584793533ISBN:1584793538
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Edition: 4th Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Edison, New Jersey, U.S.A. : Stewart Tabori & Chang
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781584793533ISBN:1584793538
Description: As New in As New jacket. Illlustrations in color. First Edition, 4th ptg. A Very Fine as new hardbound copy in like dust jacket, not price-clipped. read more
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"I read this book in bits and pieces over a year or so. It's a mixture of watercolors by Marjolein Bastin, snippets from her journals 2002-2003, and narration by Tovah Martin about MB's connections to nature and inspirations for painting. Tovah Martin was garden editor for the former Victoria Magazine. She also wrote a coffee table book in 1994 called Tasha Tudor's Garden. Marjolein Bastin I first encountered in Hallmark stationery and greeting cards. Her line is called "Nature's Sketchbook." View from a Sketchbook explains MB's way of seeing nature, and explains that her goal in painting and drawing is to show the audience the same 'ordinary' nature that we pass every day--cardinals, robins, Canadian geese, grass, Queen Anne's lace, berries, bumblebees--but to show it to us in a way that says "Stop and look," pointing out the beauty we often miss in simple things. MB has a home in Missouri, where she walks on the prairie each day, but also a home in the woods in her native Holland, and even spends a few weeks each year in the Cayman Islands. Most of her painting and drawing depicts nature in the temperate zones rather than the tropical. The back dust jacket says that MB is "one of Hallmark's 3 premier artists." How can I find out the names of the other 2?"
"I purchased this for myself years ago and it remains one of my favorites. Ms. Bastin is an amazing
artist and captures the animals in a way that touches
the heart! The writing is well done. If you close your
eyes you can almost feel yourself in the gardens
watching the birds and hearing their voices. It's a
wonderful sensory experience.
I recommend this book for those who enjoy nature,
especially those who love birds. Very uplifting!!"
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