Oil Painting Workshop
by DK Publishing (Author),
Aggy Boshoff (Author)
Oil-painting Workshop is a how-to book commissioned by Dorling Kindersley and aimed at the budding artist. It has 128 pages and over 600 illustrations. The text and most of the illustrations are by me. Ten paint projects show the reader how to apply the paints and use some key techniques which can easily be followed step by step. The first print run was 40,000 and the book has been translated into 12 languages, amongst others in Dutch and Russian. The copyright of the book rests with Dorling Kindersley. The link below gets you to the right page on Amazon if you wish to acquire this book.
Complete Painting and Drawing Handbook
by Glynis Barnes-Mellish (Author), Lucy Watson (Author), Aggy Boshoff (Author), Phyllis McDowell (Author)
In this book, which came out a few years after Oil-painting Workshop, the four major tenets of painting are grouped together in one book. There are sections on drawing, watercolour and painting in acrylics apart from the section I did on painting with oils. The Copyright again rests with Dorling Kindersley. Click on the Amazon button to acquire this book from Amazon.
The Best Party in the World
by Aggy Boshoff
(Author)
This is my technical tour de force: in the Brushes Application, favoured by David Hockney, of whom I am a great admirer, I drew 34 illustrations with my fingers on an iPad. The storyline developed alongside the pictures. It is a short story for all those young at heart. Like in a symphony, music was added (to begin and end the story), plus sound effects and a voice-over. You can download the book on any Apple device by clicking on the link to iBooks below. You’ll be able to sample four pages free of charge.
A Dutch Family, Book 1
by Aggy Boshoff (Author)
The first instalment, follows the lives of my maternal grandparents Frits Baden and Meta van Eck, takes us
to the Dutch East Indies under Colonial rule, to The Hague under Nazi rule and back to Indonesia during
the Independence struggle of 1945-1949. The story of the family is set against the backdrop of these
turbulent times, but I also paraphrase from the many love letters they wrote in the 1920’s.
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A Dutch Family, Book 2
by Aggy Boshoff (Author)
This is the second book in a series of books of family history.
The second book follows the paternal grandparents Wim Kooper and Paula Becht and their forebears from The
Hague. This book also takes us to the Dutch East Indies, between the two World Wars and then to WWII in
The Hague and to a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stanislau, in what is now Ukraine.
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A South African Family, Book 3
by Aggy Boshoff (Author)
The third and last family book is about the South African families of my husband Leon. The first member of his four grandparent families to come to the Cape arrived there in 1661, just nine years after the VOC had set up the tiny revictualling station for its ships and crews plying the trade with the Dutch East Indies (present day Republic of Indonesia). Leon is the 10th generation of the SA family. In 1972, however, he returned to Europe with his first family, settling near London in England. In 1986 I joined him there as his second wife. The book encapsulates the often harrowing political history of the whites in South Africa.
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