Le Vent dans les Sables - Les crayons #2

Framed within an elegant Moorish arch and surrounded by intricate geometric borders, Michel Pierris's cover for this 2010 Delcourt volume offers a delicate, warmly tinted pencil sketch of camel riders crossing a desert landscape. The subdued rose and cream palette gives the artwork an almost archaeological grace, perfectly suited to a crayons (pencil art) collection. Fans of finely crafted Franco-Belgian illustration will find this second volume a quietly beautiful showcase of Pierris's draughtsmanship at its most refined.