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Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, catalogs, and newspapers. Millions of people have uploaded their best publications to create beautiful digital editions.

Issuu is a publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, catalogs, and newspapers. Millions of people have uploaded their best publications to create beautiful digital editions.

Wiht Issuu you can very quickly create gorgeous sexy little flip book publications of your work that you can embed on your site. Take a look at how Jacqui Simpson has used it to help launch her Coffee Table Books and Calendar range







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Made some additions to the on line book shop today; Gustave Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley, Henry Fuseli, Elizabeth Siddall, John Everett Millais, Alphonse Mucha, Racine, Moliere, Voltaire, L'histoire de ma Vie (Giacomo Casanova) etc. 

Also did some work on the Teatro Olimpico painting ( Vicenza: Andrea Palladio) which should be complete and uploaded by the end of the week.  

 

Just finished 'stocking' the associate bookshop on my website. After going through art and design history, theatre history and plays, theatre craft, film and photographic history, film craft, architectural history, creative writing, Shakespeare ( plays, history, criticism and Shakespeare on film/television), humour and literary criticism, poetry and English/European/American literature- my mind feels like a library filing system that has just been hit by a bomb ( if that observation makes any sense at all!) 

I have this...annoying feeling that there are hundreds of titles that I have forgotten to include; and I've been racking my brain to dredge up the names of various authors and titles of long forgotten books for most of the day.  

But I suppose there are enough for now; so I'll upload the rest as and when they spring to mind.

Feel free to take a look at: 

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/pinacoteca-21

http://pinacoteca.webs.com


Didn't realise I knew so much about books- if only I could read them all as well.

One good thing though: I finally found a PALS (that is UK compatible) DVD of Richard Loncraine's Richard III ( with Ian McKellan in the titular role) as opposed to the more widely available NTSC ( American) version. So I think I might have to buy this from my own website before somebody else does!!

"Splash and Dash" is the working title for my oil painting instruction book. It will be released in September. Splash and Dash covers fast and flexible approaches to representational oil painting. 

The back story behind the book is that I have spent a small fortune experimenting with grounds and mediums in order to learn Flemish, Venetian, and modern direct painting methods. What I learned is that there is no shortage of conflicting advice and  confusion about best practices. So I put my architect hat on and de-constructed the painting process.

After I broke the painting process down into a number of discrete tasks, each with a tangible outcome, four basic oil painting approaches to painting emerged. 

Sample chapters are available at www.chadwooters.com