Gina Lento

Fundraiser Painting

Taking a break from Zombie dolls to do this post…. I was honored to be asked to paint during the Dia de los Muertos Celebration, a fundraiser for our local historical cemetery. I frequently sketch and paint at the Lakeview Cemetery, so I was more than happy to donate my time and a painting forContinue reading “Fundraiser Painting”

Nun doll

I found the reference photo for this doll on Sktchy. It reminds me of a doll my aunt used to have. I thought it would make a fun zombie doll. Here is the link to see the post on Sktchy and the original photo…. http://sktchy.com/QDgVzH

Zombie doll from Sktchy

Ok. So by now you are all wondering how this got started. I wanted to work on a project for Halloween. Last year, I took an internet workshop with Leslie Wood. I saw her Little Deads in Art Journaling magazine and drooled. I took the class, and Leslie encouraged us to create our own characters.Continue reading “Zombie doll from Sktchy”

Zombie dolls

What do I do for fun? Lately, I have been working in this Teesha Moore style sketchbook. I started with a 22×30 sheet of watercolor paper and I actually painted it several years ago with watercolor on both sides. I had used Halloween kitchen towels as my inspiration, then cut the sheet up for theContinue reading “Zombie dolls”

Sketches from this evening’s anatomy sketch night

We had a bunch of real and faux bones and skeletons this evening for sketch night. I sketched the Chihuahua skeleton I found in Target. They look almost like dinosaurs, lol.

Inktober Days 24 through 31

Here is the final week of Inktober 2017 For me, Inktober 2017 was not about being “popular” or creating works of art. I believe that creating art, even in sketchbooks, is about finding myself, my voice, my style, and not following the herd. I didn’t care if I got a lot of “likes” when IContinue reading “Inktober Days 24 through 31”

Happy Halloween

Today is Halloween, 2017. I have been working on several projects, the following is one of them…..

Recent sketches out and about

This past Wednesday I went out with my sketch club to sketch at the local bowling alley. Yesterday, I went into the city to sketch with the NYC Urban Sketchers. We were sketching several alleged haunted houses. The first one is a Colonial style home that was once a speakeasy. It is the home ofContinue reading “Recent sketches out and about”

Inktober Days 13 to 23

I have been busy working on a few things so I haven’t been posting much. However, I have been doing my daily Inktober sketches and posted them on Sktchy….most of them are 5 minute timed sketches done first thing in the morning. Enjoy! This pie is actually day 20.

NYC Urban Sketching at the Dyckman Farmhouse

Today I went into NYC to sketch with the NYC chapter of Urban Sketchers. Today’s sketch outing was a joint venture with the Urban Sketchers of Indonesia to commemorate the Treaty of Breda, where the Dutch traded Manhattan to the English for a monopoly on nutmeg. We are trading sketches with the Indonesians and thisContinue reading “NYC Urban Sketching at the Dyckman Farmhouse”