Gina Lento

Inktober sketches Days 6 – 12

I haven’t been posting these daily because I’d rather post them as a group. Most of these Inktober sketches are 5 minute sketches except for the Breakfast Crawl sketch that I snapped a photo of before I added watercolor to it. I start my sketches by checking the Inktober prompt for the day thatContinue reading “Inktober sketches Days 6 – 12”

Breakfast Crawl #5

Yesterday was Patchogue’s 5th Breakfast crawl. I drew my own map of the Breakfast Crawl and submitted it to The Draw and Cook, and it was accepted! You can see the map here: http://www.theydrawandtravel.com/illustrations/10616-breakfast-crawl-5-in-patchogue-new-york John and I bought the 5 ticket crawl so we we only able to sample 5 of the 15 participatingContinue reading “Breakfast Crawl #5”

Sketch Night Sketches

These sketches were done Wednesday evening at Swell Taco with my sketch group.

Inktober sketches Days 2-5

I really didn’t want to do Inktober again because I already have a daily sketching habit. I had to come up with something new to make it fun for me. So, my personal Inktober challenge is to add a 5 minute timed sketch to my morning routine. This way, no matter HOW the day went,Continue reading “Inktober sketches Days 2-5”

Horses and yesterday’s Inktober Sketch

I spent over a week researching and working on this map that I did as a very belated Sketchbook Skool Assignment. I was away when the class was “in session” and I mulled over ideas and nothing really inspired me until I saw they were requesting maps for Asia. Then I had to mull thatContinue reading “Horses and yesterday’s Inktober Sketch”

Art with coffee

I have a morning ritual where I get my day started with a few habits like exercise, morning pages and I have added a 5 minute timed sketch to the routine. I did this sketch in 5 minutes, all while enjoying my morning cup of java. I look for something on Sktchy that IContinue reading “Art with coffee”

Some recent sketches

I have been working on a project that I don’t wish to post just yet. In the meantime, here are some sketches I did recently. This one was an experiment that didn’t come out as intended, but I am content with the result. This next sketch is a haiku sketch where you only have 7Continue reading “Some recent sketches”

Pirate Day

Today was Pirate Day!

Another painting started

This boat has been put out to pasture. It’s a shame because it looked like it used to be a nice boat. It’s pretty big. Word in the boatyard is that it is being stripped down and it will be burned in a boat burning next month in Sayville. I wanted to capture it’s lastContinue reading “Another painting started”

Plein air again

Tonight was sketch night and I pulled the pastels out again…. I started this around 6 and the sun sets on the South shore at 7:09 so I didn’t have much daylight toward the end of the painting session. It still needs some tweaking if I wanted a polished piece and there is enough informationContinue reading “Plein air again”