Author Archives: Gina Lento

Sketch night….I did my 30 min painting and I did another pen & ink sketch     

This is my Graveyard Challenge. I’ll do the 30 min painting later….the challenge was you had to use only three colors and it had to be plein air. You were permitted a 4th color as an underpainting (I used Daniel Smith’s Quinacridone Gold watercolor). I used Ultramarine Blue, yellow ochre and green gouache in aContinue reading “Inktober Day 21 and Graveyard Challenge”

Today’s 30 min painting….   

#inktober2015 Day 20It was a mild day….went back to the cemetary….the SMITH crypt caught my eye…the Smiths are a well known foundation family on LI. An artist friend of mine is a Smithtown Smith and he’s very proud of that so I sketched this…..the Great Patchogue Lake is right behind it. At least they pickedContinue reading “Inktober Day 20”

Here’s the 30 minute painting….it’s more of a feeling rather than a representation…..why 30 minutes? Because I am trying to capture as much information as I can without overdoing and overworking it. These are being done in sketchbooks and the information I “jot down” here could be developed into a painting at another time. ForContinue reading “Today’s 30 min painting”

#inktober2015 Day 19…..I felt well enough to get out of the house for a little bit….still can’t talk much but I am feeling a little stronger. I sat in the car, turning the heat on occasionally to stay warm. Even with the sun, it was very cool today.I was studying this grouping of grave markers.Continue reading “Inktober Day 19”

30 min painting using a vulture Halloween decoration   

#Inktober Day 18…..Halloween decorations   

#Inktober #15 Thumbnail sketches and the value of studying great works. A great lesson I learned from Lynn Whipple. And I am happy to say I completed three sketchbooks that were almost full, these past few days.        

30 min painting in gouache and the sketchbook is FULL! Another one down! That’s three sketchbooks I finished in the past 9 days!