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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 colored in (sometimes more than once) her bestselling books World of Flowers, Ivy and the Inky Butterfly, Johanna’s Christmas, Magical Jungle, Lost Ocean, Enchanted Forest, and Secret Garden. Johanna is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee. She likes sugar mice, floral teacups, peonies, and bumblebees.
Magical Worlds
Small Victories
Rooms of Wonder
30 Days of Creativity
Worlds of Wonder
Johanna Basford Land, Sea, and Sky
How to Draw Inky Wonderlands
World of Flowers
Ivy and the Inky Butterfly
Magical Jungle: 36 Postcards to Color and Send
Lost Ocean Artist's Edition
Johanna's Christmas
Magical Jungle
Lost Ocean: 36 Postcards to Color and Send
Lost Ocean

Books

Magical Worlds
Small Victories
Rooms of Wonder
30 Days of Creativity
Worlds of Wonder
Johanna Basford Land, Sea, and Sky
How to Draw Inky Wonderlands
World of Flowers
Ivy and the Inky Butterfly
Magical Jungle: 36 Postcards to Color and Send
Lost Ocean Artist's Edition
Johanna's Christmas
Magical Jungle
Lost Ocean: 36 Postcards to Color and Send
Lost Ocean

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