This book was supposed to arrive – as a similar item indeed did – for my January 5th birthday.
After HM Customs & Royal Mail sat on it for roughly a fortnight – it’d be fun to think they’d enjoyed reading it, but as the packaging hasn’t been interfered with, I guess not (it seems they just like to hold on to stuff for ages!) – it was finally delivered this morning.
Oh frabjous day!
This brings my ‘library’ on The Van de Veldes to three books on just them, and several others in which they feature.
But this is far and away the ‘flagship’ publication, being as it’s hardback, a recent edition with fab colour images, and in English.
My first book on these guys was small and mostly black and white. My second was in Dutch. So this is great.
I’m hoping that we might be able to get some of the images printed locally, for framing/display at home. That’d be fab! I also intend to use the art of the Van de Veldes as inspiration. Either copying directly, using elements – cloud and sea studies, for example – or in various other ways. We shall sea what we shall sea…