Hank Buffington
@hankbuffington.bsky.social
Artist, plein air landscape painter, oils, acrylics, watercolors. Pennsylvania.
http://www.hankbuffington.com
http://www.hankbuffington.com
Here’s a gouache sketch for a new painting.
December 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Here’s a gouache sketch for a new painting.
5 minute poses at figure group today followed by 10-15 minute poses.
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
5 minute poses at figure group today followed by 10-15 minute poses.
Still playing with this one.
November 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Still playing with this one.
A little gouache sketch before everyone woke up this morning.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A little gouache sketch before everyone woke up this morning.
I continued playing with this plein air sketch in my basement. It’s just a struggle between the strange shapes I love in the farm fields and trying to make “a picture” or scene. I don’t have an interest in painting little tree branches but feel like I’m supposed to.
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I continued playing with this plein air sketch in my basement. It’s just a struggle between the strange shapes I love in the farm fields and trying to make “a picture” or scene. I don’t have an interest in painting little tree branches but feel like I’m supposed to.
It was frosty when I went out this morning. I hadn’t painted outside in a long time. It clouded over before I was half way finished and then it started raining. Of course by the time I got back to my car the sun was back out. This is why I’ve been painting inside more lately.
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It was frosty when I went out this morning. I hadn’t painted outside in a long time. It clouded over before I was half way finished and then it started raining. Of course by the time I got back to my car the sun was back out. This is why I’ve been painting inside more lately.
A little watercolor practice today on wrinkly sketchbook paper.
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A little watercolor practice today on wrinkly sketchbook paper.
Reposted by Hank Buffington
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
I have paintings that I’m never happy with. I can pull them off my pile at any time and continue to play with them. This is one of them. This morning I changed it for the third time.
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I have paintings that I’m never happy with. I can pull them off my pile at any time and continue to play with them. This is one of them. This morning I changed it for the third time.
Some drawings from figure group yesterday.
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Some drawings from figure group yesterday.
As of November 4, 2025, estimates indicate that President Donald Trump's golfing in 2025 has cost U.S. taxpayers approximately $68.6 million.
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
As of November 4, 2025, estimates indicate that President Donald Trump's golfing in 2025 has cost U.S. taxpayers approximately $68.6 million.
Reposted by Hank Buffington
The MSNBC montage played clip after clip of Patel demanding accountability from past FBI directors for what he called “private jet joyrides.”
Supercut Video Shows Kash Patel Condemning the Very Jet Perks He Abused
FBI Director Kash Patel just got owned by his own words — and on national television, no less.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The MSNBC montage played clip after clip of Patel demanding accountability from past FBI directors for what he called “private jet joyrides.”
A couple more sketches.
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A couple more sketches.
I’m experimenting with gouache in a small sketchbook of toned paper. The paper is lightweight and designed for drawing and sketching with dry media. A little water with watercolor makes it buckle. Hopefully using gouache thicker will reduce the warping.
November 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I’m experimenting with gouache in a small sketchbook of toned paper. The paper is lightweight and designed for drawing and sketching with dry media. A little water with watercolor makes it buckle. Hopefully using gouache thicker will reduce the warping.
I’m having trouble choosing which Halloween costume for tomorrow.
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I’m having trouble choosing which Halloween costume for tomorrow.
It was another beautiful evening here. I had to get out and paint. It was either that or do yard work. Tough choice.
October 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It was another beautiful evening here. I had to get out and paint. It was either that or do yard work. Tough choice.
I liked the atmosphere at the edge of this meadow on a rainy morning a few weeks ago. Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel, 9x16”
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I liked the atmosphere at the edge of this meadow on a rainy morning a few weeks ago. Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel, 9x16”
If I paint outside I can’t eat all the Halloween candy.
October 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If I paint outside I can’t eat all the Halloween candy.
Thicker paint on board. Just having fun. Not sure about that shadow in the foreground.
October 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Thicker paint on board. Just having fun. Not sure about that shadow in the foreground.
A squishy version of a recent landscape. The thicker paint creates some visual vibration that I like.
October 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A squishy version of a recent landscape. The thicker paint creates some visual vibration that I like.
I could no longer tolerate my last figure painting continuing to exist in this world. I cut it in half and this is the top half. I may use the bottom half to try this scene again. This was just supposed to be the underpainting to map out the shapes, but I feel like it concluded prematurely.
October 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I could no longer tolerate my last figure painting continuing to exist in this world. I cut it in half and this is the top half. I may use the bottom half to try this scene again. This was just supposed to be the underpainting to map out the shapes, but I feel like it concluded prematurely.
Another small, fast one before breakfast. Acrylic on paper. 5.5x7”
October 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Another small, fast one before breakfast. Acrylic on paper. 5.5x7”