{"id":22712,"date":"2014-11-17T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T09:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/?p=22712"},"modified":"2017-01-26T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:05:43","slug":"top-tips-watercolour-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/17\/top-tips-watercolour-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tips for Watercolour Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/Art_Departments-A-Z_All_Departments-Books_for_Artists-Painting_and_Drawing_Books-Books_by_Media-Books_on_Watercolour\/c2129_2128_498_25062_25177_25211\/p49345\/Charlies_Top_Tips_for_Watercolour_Artists_:_Book_by_Charles_Evans\/product_info.html?&amp;amp;&amp;amp;\"><strong>Charlies Top Tips for Watercolour Artists: over 100 essential tips to improve your painting<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An 96-page, A5-size, spiral-bound book by Charles Evans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BKS276.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BKS276.jpg\" alt=\"Charlies Top Tips for Watercolour Artists : Book by Charles Evans\" width=\"350\" height=\"487\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BKS276.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BKS276-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charlie Evans is a highly experienced artist. His exuberant personality and unique gift for explaining his techniques in clear and simple terms make him a highly popular and well-liked tutor and demonstrator, and he spends his life travelling throughout the UK running art classes and appearing in his long-running TV series. <\/p>\n<p>In this book he passes on his knowledge and expertise in his own, accessible style, giving the reader the confidence and know-how to produce beautiful, evocative watercolour paintings of their own. It includes tips on everything from choosing which colours and brushes to buy, to how to paint skies, water, texture and buildings. He uses a limited palette and limited number of brushes. The tips are clearly explained and illustrated using both step-by-step demonstrations and finished paintings. They will help unravel the mysteries of the watercolour medium for those new to painting and also for more experienced watercolourists on the lookout for tips from a master.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CharlesEvans1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CharlesEvans1.jpg\" alt=\"Charlies Top Tips for Watercolour Artists : Book by Charles Evans\" width=\"728\" height=\"730\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CharlesEvans1.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CharlesEvans1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CharlesEvans1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CharlesEvans1-620x621.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5>Charles Evans<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesevansart.com\/\">Charles Evans<\/a> is one of Britain&#8217;s leading painters. As well as being on TV, he is now one of the leading demonstrators for Winsor &#038; Newton and demonstrates all over the UK. He is an established teacher who enjoys sharing his expertise. His exuberant and informal personality is reflected in his paintings, which have a lightness and simplicity that many artists aspire to. Charles lives in Morpeth, Northumberland.<\/p>\n<p>You will find lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesevansart.com\/projectsindex.htm\">step-by-step projects on Charles Evans&#8217; website.<\/a><br \/>\nCharles Evans is active on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlesevansart\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/Art_Departments-A-Z_All_Departments-Books_for_Artists-Painting_and_Drawing_Books-Books_by_Media-Books_on_Watercolour\/c2129_2128_498_25062_25177_25211\/p49345\/Charlies_Top_Tips_for_Watercolour_Artists_:_Book_by_Charles_Evans\/product_info.html?&amp;amp;&amp;amp;\"><strong>Charlies Top Tips for Watercolour Artists <\/strong><\/a> book\u00a0on the Jackson\u2019s Art Supplies website.<br \/>\nPostage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of \u00a339 or more.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The image at the top is a watercolour painting by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesevansart.com\/\">Charles Evans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlies Top Tips for Watercolour Artists: over 100 essential tips to improve your painting An 96-page, A5-size, spiral-bound book by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[24,26,1346,52,113,155],"class_list":["post-22712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watercolour-painting","tag-art-materials","tag-artist","tag-book-review","tag-colour","tag-painting","tag-watercolours"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Top Tips for Watercolour Artists - Jackson&#039;s Art Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watercolour Artists. 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