Gina Lento

Bad hair day

Looking for something to sketch for 5 minutes, I came across this dog on the Sktchy app. I figured times had to be tough if even the dog is having a bad hair day!😂 5 minute timed sketch using Tombows and a Uniball Vision.

Five Minute Sketch

This is a 5 min sketch done in my morning pages. If I can’t think of anything to draw, I go to my saved photos in Sktchy, set the timer for 5 minutes and get moving. I set the timer for 5 minutes because I am doing them in my morning pages and I onlyContinue reading “Five Minute Sketch”

Met Sketch

I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday to see the David Hockney exhibit. It was amazing. After that I checked out many other exhibits, studying many paintings and drawings. I wandered into one gallery on the first floor that had these awesome sculptures so I sat down to sketch one. At the Met,Continue reading “Met Sketch”

Sketching out

Yesterday was such a beautiful day that I had to go out to sketch. I took a ride up to the North Shore of LI to join a group that was painting there. I wanted to mount my little guerrilla box on the tripod but alas, it didn’t come with the tripod adapter mounting plateContinue reading “Sketching out”

Sketching more shoes

I met with my sketch club tonight at the local library. We sketched shoes. Not just any shoes, they had to be fancy dress shoes. We did something different this evening where we had timed 15 minute sessions and then we had to move down 2 chairs to another place. It gave everyone a chanceContinue reading “Sketching more shoes”

Les chaussures

One of our 365 assignments was art and shoes. We were instructed to do one line shoes, writing about how we feel about shoes and copying in our own artistic “language,” shoes done by Master artists of our choice. The first photo is my one line shoes where we had to draw the first thingContinue reading “Les chaussures”

Some sketches from last week

Winter in bloom

We have a small collection of orchids on our bedroom windowsill that take a break from blooming in the fall. Every year, in December, we move them from the west facing bedroom to the south facing window in my husband’s office to make room for holiday decorating. That speeds up their rebloom so that byContinue reading “Winter in bloom”

Handmade wrapping paper

Putting those skills to work to make homemade Valentine’s wrapping paper….

Temp job

I am taking Carla Sonheim’s 2018 365 days of inspiration. One of the prompts this month was “temp job,” to create temporary “art.” Two of my grandkids visited over the weekend, so I baked a heart cake that I assembled by using square and circle cake pans. We cooled the cakes and my husband andContinue reading “Temp job”