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| Charles Reid?s Watercolor Secrets | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Reid
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $28.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 72030
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1581804237
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.422
EAN: 9781581804232
ASIN: 1581804237
Publication Date: April 7, 2004
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Product Description
Beloved artist Charles Reid gives readers a rare look into his artistic life with this fascinating book. The paintings on each page have been selected from the actual sketchbooks he has kept for the past 25 years. These breathtaking illustrations are accompanied by concise commentary and advice from the artist that explains the process behind his work. Charles makes painting easy by keeping it simple; his techniques will show readers how to capture the magic of watercolor. It's an education in basic art principles and an exciting glimpse into the mind of a master painter. Artists and art lovers alike will cherish this book.
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 Watercolor Class February 26, 2008
This book, Charles Reid, author, entitled "Watercolor Secrets" was picked by an instructor at Washburn University for a class on watercolor. I am taking the class and find the book weak on instructions, but good in presenting the
variety of work this artist has done. It certainly could be written in a more instructional style.
Charles Reid's Watercolor Secrets February 22, 2008
Charles Reid is a wonderful artist. I enjoyed reading the book but it falls short as an instruction manual as it is very difficult to understand from the text and illustrations how Charles actually achieves his very loose wet in wet effects.
 Just plain great March 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is not intented to deliver technical help. It's a book full of tips
& tricks about general aspect of Mr. Reid approach to painting, with
differents conditions and subject. It's a great bed time reading.
 Just an excuse for another book March 8, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The title of this book is rather misleading. I had thought I was going to get some real expert tips on watercolor painting but instead this book is just a reprinting of the artist's watercolor "NOTEBOOKS" with VERY little in the way of useable and tangible tips about painting in watercolor. The book is slender, sparsely laid-out and over-priced at that. It struck me as just an excuse for a book with a cleverly disguised title to market and sell it (everyone wants the "secrets", right?) . Save your money!
Paint by pages December 20, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Put 'Watercolor painting techniques' into Amazon Advance Search and you'll come up with well over a thousand titles. I'm sure most of these are worthy books but I'll stick with anything by Charles Reid. I have five of his books and 'Watercolor Secrets' together with Painting Flowers in Watercolour are probably the ones I look through most often.
All of the books, of course, show what a stunning artist he is though I much prefer his watercolor work rather than oils. It's his studied casualness that I love, colors define shapes, they merge into each other, large areas are just left blank and look unfinished yet the overall effect is controlled precision. His work is totally convincing and rather unique.
The five chapters in this book throw up lots of interesting techniques for the established painter*. I particularly liked the Demonstration pages in each of the five chapters. Each shows a step-by-step series of paintings from the original drawing to the finish with comprehensive captions to each picture. There's something for everyone in the book: figures, landscape and seascapes, flowers, buildings and more.
Another reason I like this book is because it's so good to look at. Visually it is based on a landscape sketchbook and nicely each spread has part of a used sketchbook printed in the spine. The layout and typography are first class (a tip of the hat to Wendy Dunning) and how refreshing to find a publisher that is prepared to go that little bit extra for the reader.
If you like Charles Reid get this book for some excellent examples of his work and positive thoughts on watercolor techniques.
*Just starting out? Have a look at Reid's Painting What You Want to See (Practical Art Books) which has some very basic instructions, especially on drawing.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
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