View from a Sketchbook: Nature Through the Eyes of Marjolein Bastin

by Tovah Martin and Marjolein Bastin

Book Overview

This work provides an intimate portrait of nature artist Marjolein Bastin as she works through the seasons of the year to create her art.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584793538
• ISBN13: 9781584793533
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Glorious illustrations!

Marjolein Bastin is one of my favorite artists. Every year I buy her weekly planner calendar. I just purchased 2 of these books, one for me and one as a gift. I would buy this book if only for the illustrations, they are glorious!

Nature Lover

Great illustrations and a wonderful book!!! Gave this as a gift to a friend and was told that they truly enjoyed it. So, I would have to recommend this to anyone who is truly a nature lover!!!

A year on the prairie with Marjolein Bastin

"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.