Author Archives: Gina Lento

What is International Fake Journal Month?  IFJM was started by Roz Stendahl and it is a inspirational month for creatives to take a time out to create and be an alter ego.  However, you must do it in a journal of your own choosing.  I am not a writer, but occasionally I have a story thatContinue reading “Today is the First Day of International Fake Journal Month aka IFJM”

Ok folks, a Zine Freebie. A friend posted his diet woes a few weeks back and he was delighted when I asked if I could “retell his story.” Here is my version of his dieting story….this is a printable, make it slightly smaller than your 8 1/2 x 11 page and fold per the attachedContinue reading “Free Zine”

Sketch done at Panera    #sketchbookskool #artforall #illustatedjournaling #urbansketching #visualjournal #sketchbook #sketch #ginalento

You know you’ve made it in our town when those of us in the local Sketch Club sketch your establishment.   #sketchbookskool #artforall #illustatedjournaling #urbansketching #visualjournal #sketchbook #sketch #ginalento 

 Today I thought I would get out of the house.  I had been working on a few projects and had recentlycompleted them…so today I wanted get out to sketch.  I was headed to the local green house when I saw something I just HAD to sketch….pretty much just came short of slamming on the brakes…..sometimes,Continue reading “Sketching in the cold”

 Here’s some sketches I did at yesterday’s Pet Expo.   Also, below is my bookshelf with sketchbooks on it….it’s double stacked. Someone asked me what I do with ” all that art” I am creating….they thought it was piling up all over my house, lmao….much of it is in these books and the books IContinue reading “Sketches from yesterday at the Pet Expo”

As many of you know, I am a sketch artist as well as a painter.  I do lots of sketches and many people have asked what can I do with my sketches.  I have sketched people’s houses, I have sketched people doing activities, etc… Sometime, I sketch things off the top of my head, andContinue reading “Going Digital”

I am finishing up the last week of an on line workshop, and it had some fun ways to express your art.  This very last week, the course was run by artist Michael Hobbs of the UK.  Michael gave us some pointers of how to budget time, but also be good to ourselves and rewardContinue reading “Enlarging work”

These are a few ATC’s that I did for a card swap.  I was not feeling inspired until I looked at our wine rack, so I did mini portraits of wine bottles.   

I am trying to follow the morning pages ritual as spelled out in “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. I am not a writer and I want to fit “art before breakfast” in with the writing ritual so I found a way to do both combining the morning pages with sketching or doodling and IContinue reading “Morning pages”