Paul Hampton

Category: Watercolour

• Art Wash Watercolour

  

  Sgraffito and Knifing Out

  Trying Sgraffito and Knifing Out techniques.

  November 21, 2025
• Art Dry Brush Mixing Wash Watercolour

  

  Dry Brush

  Class – Practicing the Dry Brush technique. Using the technique to paint a snowy country scene.

  November 1, 2025
• Art Mixing Watercolour

  

  Matching Colours

  Matching limited pallet colours. Trying to mix a free pallet of Koi paints with my normal pallet.

  October 24, 2025
• Art Mixing Wash Watercolour Wet-on-Wet

  

  Painting Brown

  Class – Painting still life brown things.

  October 9, 2025
• Art Mixing Splatter Sponges Wash Watercolour Wet-on-Wet

  

  More Stencils

  Painting autumn leaves using masks.

  September 28, 2025
• Art Class Mixing Splatter Sponges Watercolour

  

  Playing with Stencils

  Class – Using paper dollies, plastic nets and leaves as masks.

  September 26, 2025
• Art Class Mixing Watercolour

  

  Natural Pigments

  Class – Using natural pigments to paint watercolour.

  September 18, 2025
• Art Mixing Watercolour

  

  Mixing Colours

  A blog post showing my mix chart and my swatch book.

  September 6, 2025
• Art Wash Watercolour

  

  Mountains

  Updated 02-09-2025: Testing different papers by painting a mountain range over time.

  September 2, 2025
• Art Watercolour

  

  Random Stuff

  This is a collection of random paintings that did not fall into another category.

  August 12, 2025
• Art Watercolour

  

  My Favourites

  This post has some of my favourite works.

  August 5, 2025
• Art Watercolour

  

  Turner (No. 1)

  Attempting to copy one of Turners paintings, Loch Long, Morning

  July 30, 2025
• Art Mixing Techniques Watercolour Wet-on-Dry Wet-on-Wet

  

  Magazine Landscape

  Painting a wet-on-dry and wet-in-wet landscape from a magazine exercise

  July 19, 2025
• Art Class Dry Brush Glazing Ink Watercolour Wet-on-Dry Wet-on-Wet

  

  Lake District

  Class – Painting a view of Buttermere, in the lake district.

  July 3, 2025
• Art Class Dry Brush Glazing Salt Splatter Watercolour Wet-on-Dry Wet-on-Wet

  

  Beach Scenes

  Class – Using salt and splatter to paint texture.

  June 26, 2025
• Art Class Ink Wash Watercolour

  

  Street Characters

  Class – Dip pen, ink and wash to paint people.

  June 12, 2025
• Art Class Ink Wash Watercolour

  

  Garden Scene

  Class – Drawing foliage using dip pen, ink and wash.

  June 5, 2025
• Art Class Masking Fluid Wash Watercolour Wet-on-Dry Wet-on-Wet

  

  Reflections

  Class – Wet-on-Wet and Wet-on-Dry to paint reflections in the lake.

  May 15, 2025
• Art Class Ink Wash Watercolour

  

  Street – Pen and Wash

  Class – Ink and wash to paint a street scene.

  May 8, 2025
• Art Class Wash Watercolour

  

  Flat Brushes

  Class – Using a flat brush to paint buildings.

  May 1, 2025
• Art Class Mixing Wash Watercolour Wet-on-Dry Wet-on-Wet

  

  Mixing Blues

  Class – Using mixes of blue to paint sea scenes.

  April 24, 2025
• Art Mixing Watercolour Wet-on-Dry Wet-on-Wet

  

  Limited Palette

  Using a limited palette to paint “San Giorgio di Maggiore”

  April 22, 2025
• Art Class Ink Wash Watercolour

  

  Birds – Pen and Ink

  Class – Sketching birds in ink and wash to paint.

  March 27, 2025
• Art Class Sketching Watercolour

  

  Birds – Watercolour Pencil

  Class – Sketching birds with water soluble watercolour pencils.

  March 20, 2025
• Art Class Watercolour

  

  Animal Texture

  Class – Using texture to paint animal fur and skin.

  March 13, 2025
• Art Class Watercolour

  

  Small Anmimals

  Class – Paining small animals in silhouette.

  March 6, 2025
• Art Class Watercolour Wax Wet-on-Wet

  

  Stormy Skies

  Class – Wet-on-Wet and wax resist to paint stormy skies.

  February 27, 2025
• Art Class Masking Fluid Sketching Wash Watercolour

  

  Coffee Pot

  Class – Using greys to paint a shinny metal coffee pot.

  February 6, 2025
• Art Class Masking Fluid Wash Watercolour Wet-on-Wet

  

  Candle

  Class – Painting candles using wet-on-wet and lifting out.

  January 30, 2025
• Art Class Masking Fluid Wash Watercolour Wet-on-Wet

  

  Snowy Trees

  Class – Painting snowy tree scenes using masking fluid

  January 23, 2025
• Art Class Masking Fluid Wash Watercolour Wet-on-Wet

  

  Painting Black Trees

  Class – Painting silhouettes of trees

  January 16, 2025
• Art Masking Fluid Wash Watercolour

  

  Decanter

  Painting a wine decanter and glass.

  January 8, 2025
• Art Class Salt Watercolour

  

  Brandy Glass

  Class – End of term, painting a brandy glass

  December 5, 2024
• Art Class Mixing Salt Watercolour

  

  Salt

  Class – Using salt to create a unique pattern in wet paint

  November 28, 2024
• Art Class Mixing Watercolour

  

  Resist

  Class – Using wax candle, tape and masking fluid to mask the paper before painting

  November 21, 2024
• Art Class Mixing Watercolour

  

  Dark Colours

  Class – Mixing strong colours to paint cherries

  November 14, 2024
• Art Class Dry Brush Watercolour

  

  Textures

  Class – Using different brushes to create texture

  November 7, 2024
• Art Class Watercolour

  

  Vase and Flowers

  Flowers in a vase.

  October 31, 2024
• Art Class Dry Brush Mixing Watercolour

  

  Brushes

  Class – Using various brushes to paint flowers.

  October 24, 2024
• Art Class Mixing Watercolour Wet-on-Dry Wet-on-Wet

  

  Colour Mixing

  Class – Mixing greens and browns.

  October 17, 2024
• Art Class Splatter Sponges Watercolour

  

  Textures

  Class – Using sponge and toothbrush to create textures.

  October 10, 2024
• Art Class Watercolour Wet-on-Dry Wet-on-Wet

  

  Wet-on-Wet

  Class – Playing with wet-on-wet.

  October 3, 2024
• Art Class Glazing Mixing Sketching Wash Watercolour

  

  The Basics

  Class – The basics of watercolour painting.

  September 26, 2024
• Art Sketchbook Watercolour

  

  Watercolour #1

  Images from my watercolour sketchbook number 1.

  July 20, 2024