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Ivy and the Inky Butterfly

byJohanna Basford

A Magical Tale to Colour

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From the international bestselling illustrator and Queen of Colouring Johanna Basford comes a lavishly illustrated fable to colour and bring to life - a girl named Ivy stumbles upon a secret door leading to the magical world of Enchantia...

'The colourists have a queen, and her name is Johanna Basford' -- New York Magazine
'Consider trading in your yoga mat for a set of markers and peruse the gorgeous gardens of Basford's imagination' -- The Huffington Post

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A charming story that interacts playfully with beautiful, colourable artwork in ink evangelist Johanna Basford'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.

For Ivy and the Inky Butterfly 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.

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

New York Magazine

About Johanna Basford

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.
Details
  • Imprint: Virgin Books
  • ISBN: 9780753545652
  • Length: 120 pages
  • Dimensions: 251mm x 13mm x 213mm
  • Weight: 572g
  • Price: £14.99