Author Archives: Gina Lento

Last but not least…. #Inktober Day 31……   

Here is today’s plein air painting. My friend Joan and I went to a farm/produce stand in Eastport. When I realized that I could be losing my subjects due to sale, I had to quickly get them done before they went bye-bye. The skinny yellow one in the back had this huge stem for suchContinue reading “Plein Air and Inktober”

#Inktober Day 29….the only bad thing about this month is my 31 total sketches are scattered through several sketchbooks      And also my plein air painting from today

   #Inktober Day 28. I forgot that Zentangles count!

This is a plein air study I did today and my Inktober (Day 27) submissions are the three thumbnails done in, you guessed it, ink. I am submitting them because although they aren’t the glamorous ink counterparts, thumbnail studies are the tugboat of the art world….they are small, look insignificant but they pull a heavyContinue reading “Plein air and Inktober”

Today’s Inktober Day 25 and I also made some home made stamps which are on the blue page. I have the stamp with it’s resulting image.      

#Inktober Day 24…..I bought this figurine because it reminded me of Stephen King’s “It.” Somehow a Halloween Town isn’t complete without “It.”  

I crashed last night before I could post this…#inktober Day 23   

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”