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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Values bedevil me. I know they are wrong but I don't know how to fix it. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of a man looking out a window

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kind of pleased with this attempt to capture the light in a small park the other night #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of a city pocket park at dusk with long shadows

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sometimes when I’m watching TV, an image just grabs me and I have to paint it. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of a man in shadow drinking wine

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Fantastic lesson in glazing with bravery via Tom Shepherd. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of a giraffe. The animal is painted in bright orange and the shadows are glazed over the top with a darkish Prussian Blue.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Via a Tim Wilmot walkthrough. Really fun to do.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ibises. I did this before a tutorial. I wanted to do it as best I could first, then do it again after the tutorial to see improvements. But I like this first version better! #learningwatercolor

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Copying the master, JS Sargent. I was trying so hard to capture the same expression he did. I was not able. But you really learn doing this. #learningwatercolor

An amateur watercolor copying a sargeant portrait of a young girl.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Every aspiring watercolorist eventually paints chefs. They are such fun. I wish my middle guy didn't look like he stepped out of a horror movie, and one day I would like to learn to paint hands, but otherwise I'm quite pleased. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of three chefs at work

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Pleased with this. Feeling like maybe I'm starting to find my groove. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of people climbing the stairs out of the subway. I think it's kind of expressionistic.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Midtown. Happy with this. (Except the umbrella. I might do it again without it.) #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of pedestrians in NYC #art

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Practicing figures with an old Hollywood glamor shot. I kind of love the expression I accidentally painted here. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of a woman in a chair with a cigarette and a drink looking warily at the viewer

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Copying Hopper. Always harder than you think, but also so enlightening. #learningwatercolor

Amateur copy of a wonderful Hopper painting of three people at the theater.

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975) "Satan Taking a Break from Hate Crimes," 2022 Oil on dibond #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My friend’s impressive copper collection, and an instructive lesson in values. The original, which seemed a bit blah to me, and what it looked like when I darkened the photo. I need to paint darker! #learningwatercolor

My original watercolor of a bunch of copper pots hanging from a rack. The pots are a kind of goldy color

The same painting but with the exposure lowered. The pots now have a lovely warm red glow and the whole painting is just way better.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Sarah Bardin (American Artist, born 1975) "Luminous", 2023. Acrylic on Canvas, 36 × 48 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Trying to capture the spring light in the plaza near my house. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of people sitting under three yellow umbrellas and some trees

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Claude Monet by Thomas Bossard

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thomas w schaller @thomaswschaller.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Monday Watercolor on paper - 22x15 No matter how much we learn - there is always more. We'll never get there, but we keep trying #art @bsky.art

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Tried painting tight. I want to be better at it but I don’t really enjoy it. #learningwatercolor

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Today’s classwork. Many mistakes. But fun. #learningwatercolor

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Spring in Hell’s Kitchen. Tried to get that light. Car is tragic but my truck is good. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of a truck and a car on a sunny street under a tree with white flowers.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

design composition tension balance light and harmony

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Following along with a Tim Wilmot demo. Terrible struggle with values and colors of shadows. But it was very fun to paint and I like my background figures. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of some Adirondack chairs on a beach.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Went to a museum, saw a cool image, managed to paint it almost as I saw it. Very pleased with this! (Can you tell they are supposed to be reflections?)

Amateur watercolor of an ancient Roman copy of a Greek statue in a glass case in a museum with different angles of the statue reflected in the glass.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This was from a photo I saw online. Here maybe? I’m afraid I forgot.

Amateur watercolor of a dog holding a lamb toy. I tried really hard to make the dog not cute to contrast with the toy.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Working through a Tom Shepherd book on painting birds. This was lesson 5.

Amateur watercolor of two rockhopper penguins.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A tad obsessed with iguanas currently.

Five random watercolors of iguanas. There are more on the backs of each. None are very good.

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Trying to capture how day and night meet in the canyons of the city. #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of a city Street with the tops of the buildings lit up and the bottoms in shadow

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Was taken by some old photos of a turn of the (last) century street market in my neighborhood and mashed up some of the people for figure practice. My bananas do not look at all like bananas, but I quite like the figures.

Amateur watercolor of four people at an outdoor vegetable market

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WashBuckler @washbuckler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

At the museum. I had a foreground figure but I cropped her out. Not sure if that was the right call. I really enjoyed painting this! #learningwatercolor

Amateur watercolor of a scene at the Egyptian deities exhibit at the Met.

Amateur watercolor of the Egyptian deities exhibit at the Met. This has a not very well painted mid ground figure that was cropped out in the other one.

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