Author Archives: Gina Lento

#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”

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”