Ivy and the Inky Butterfly

Bring your own colour to the storyFrom colouring book queen Johanna Basford, a lavishly illustrated fable about a girl named Ivy who stumbles upon a secret door leading to the magical world of Enchantia. A charming story that interacts playfully with beautiful, colourable artwork in Johanna's signature style, Ivy and the Inky Butterfly is a one-of-a-kind adventure for the whole family and readers of all ages to customise, colour and cherish.Johanna has picked a crisp ivory paper that accentuates and compliments your chosen colour palette. The smooth, untextured pages allows for beautiful blending or gradient techniques with coloured pencils, or are perfect for pens, allowing the nib to glide evenly over the surface without feathering.

About the author

Johanna Basford is an illustrator and ink evangelist who prefers pens and pencils to pixels. Her intricate, hand-drawn illustrations are loved the world over by those who have coloured in (sometimes more than once) her bestselling books Small Victories, Rooms of Wonder, 30 Days of Creativity, Worlds of Wonder, How to Draw Inky Wonderlands, World of Flowers, Ivy and the Inky Butterfly, Johanna's Christmas, Magical Jungle, Lost Ocean, Enchanted Forest, and Secret Garden. An incredible 25 million copies sold. Johanna is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee, Scotland. She likes sugar mice, floral teacups, peonies, and bumblebees.

Visit her online at johannabasford.com or follow @johannabasford.

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The colourists have a queen, and her name is Johanna Basford. New York Magazine

Product details

• Authors: Johanna Basford, Basford Johanna
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780753545652
• ISBN: 978-0-7535-4565-2
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 212 mm x 250 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Guides > Hobby, home > Painting, drawing, colour; Illustration, ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Decorative arts, ART / Techniques / Color, Folklore, myths & legends, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Folklore, myths and legends, Creative therapy