Charlie’s Top Tips for Watercolour Artists – book review
In this review we look at Charlie’s Top Tips for Watercolour Artists, a compact handbook from Charles Evans detailing over 100 tips to improve your watercolour painting.
Lets start by looking at the author himself, Charles Evans
Charles Evans is one of the UKs leading Painters. His likeable personality is reflected in his watercolour paintings, and have a lightness that many artists aspire to. Charles lives and works in Morepeth, Northumberland, in the North East of England, and gains inspiration from the natural scenery surrounding him. As well as painting in various mediums, Charles runs his own art classes from his studio, but also travels extensively, holding various painting holidays, visiting art societies and filming for his popular television series.
Charlie’s Top Tips for Watercolour Artists has a hard cover with 96 pages of tips from Charles, built up over years of watercolour painting. At about 160mm x 210mm x 15mm it can be taken anywhere, out and about when painting outside or in your studio.
Charles Evans is a well-known, popular author, and in his watercolour techniques book he shares many of his experience as a professional artist in over 100 great tips. Watercolour artists of various abilities will find this book interesting with superbly illustrated tips, step-by-step demonstrations and glimpses of various finished paintings.
The first thing you notice about Charlie’s Top Tips for Watercolour Artists is that it’s spiral bound. For art reference books, all should be like this as it allows you to lay your book flat without the pages wanting to turn back over and allows you to have your hands free for painting.