Dream, Draw, Design My Garden: A Sketchbook for Gardeners, Artists, and Landscape Lovers

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Rockport Publishers, 2015 - Architecture - 176 pages

What does your dream garden look like? Why not sketch it!

Dream, Draw, Design My Garden is the perfect inspirational sketchbook, idea book and guided journal for anyone wanting to draw and design their own landscape, yard, or garden! Enjoy the stimulating ideas and prompts for patterns, colors, details and design elements to help dreamers get motivated and get started. This playful book is meant to be a visual guide, not a technical handbook, so you can create until your garden is full and flourishing righ on the pages!

James Hobbs, whose quick sketching techniques were featured in The Art of Urban Sketching and the best selling Sketch Your World, will guide both experienced and amateur sketchers. The unfinished quality of his line drawings leave room for the reader to imagine how they would use it themselves, through different color interpretations or redrawing for their own purposes.

Whether you dream of an English rose garden, a desert rock garden, or a beautiful pondscape, Dream, Draw, Design My Garden will let your creativity grow!

 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
9
FRONT DOOR
11
ROOF DECK SKYLINE
13
OPEN DOORS
14
VERTICAL GARDEN
17
PATH TO A DOOR
19
FALL COLORS
20
PAVED GARDEN
22
COASTAL VIEW
95
BALCONY
96
BRIDGE GARDEN
98
BEEHIVES
101
VERANDA
102
BIRDSEYE VIEW
105
THE GARDEN OF A SUBURBAN HOUSE
107
COLORED COURTYARD
109

SITTING COMFORTABLY
25
THE GARDEN OF A BUNGALOW
26
FOUNTAINS
29
WINDOW BOXES
31
TOPIARY
32
ROCK GARDENS
34
WATER GARDENS
37
VEGETABLE GARDEN
39
ENTRYWAY GARDEN
40
DESERT GARDEN
43
RAIN WATERING
44
RAISED BEDS
46
GATE TO GATE
48
ISLAND
51
BOTTOM OF THE STEPS
52
SUNKEN GARDEN
55
QUIET CORNERS
57
HANGING BASKETS
58
ROOF GARDEN
60
GRASS GARDEN
63
MINIATURE COURTYARD
64
PEDESTALS
66
DISPOSAL CAMOUFLAGE
68
TRELLISES
71
BLANK CANVAS
73
INSIDE AND OUT
74
BEHIND THE GATES
77
THE GARDEN OF A MODERNIST HOUSE
78
TOP OF THE STEPS
81
PERGOLAS
82
INTERESTING PLANTERS
85
ENHANCE YOUR SIDEWALK
86
RIVERSIDE GARDEN
89
TREE HOUSE
90
JAPANESE GARDEN
93
STEPPING STONE PATH
110
GREENHOUSES
112
BEACH PATH
114
STEPPED BEDS
117
SECRET SHED
118
THE GARDEN OF A TUDOR HOUSE
121
SHADE TO SIT
123
STAIRWAY TO STYLE
124
PAVING STONES
127
RECLAIMED STREETSCAPE
128
ORCHARD
131
AGAINST THE WALL
132
BUG HOTEL
135
HERB GARDEN
136
DESIGN A BENCH
139
CONTAINER GARDEN
141
VIEW OVER ROOFTOPS
142
OPEN FIRE
145
COLOR IN YOUR GARDEN
147
BOTTOM OF THE YARD
149
DESIGN A FENCE
150
THE GARDEN OF A 1930S HOUSE
153
BARBECUE AREA
154
PLAY AREA
157
TWO GARDENS
158
ARRANGE YOUR POTTING SHED
161
ATTRACT WILDLIFE
163
DESIGN A GATE
164
IN THE SUNROOM
166
APARTMENT BALCONIES
168
FILL THESE BEDS
170
HANG A HAMMOCK
173
DREAM DRAW DESIGN YOUR OWN GARDEN
174
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
176
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About the author (2015)

James Hobbs is a freelance journalist and artist, editor of Discover Art magazine, and a former editor of Artists & Illustrators magazine. He is a London correspondent and advisory board member of Urban Sketchers, the worldwide network of sketchbook artists, which boasts thousands of members and Twitter followers. His work was featured in The Art of Urban Sketching and his book Sketch Your World was just released by Apple Press and North Light. He has a penchant for carrying a sketchbook and pens where ever he goes so he can draw on a whim.

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