AEDM DAY 17

Years ago I read a series of books by Alice Borchardt.  They started with “Silver Wolf.”  I loved these books and I am not sure why they weren’t made into movies. I loaned out my “Silver Wolf” and much to my dismay, I don’t remember who, and I’d like to read it again.  I guess I will have to look for another copy.

Anyway, here is my “Shapeshifter”


Go here to have your special moment, pet portrait designed for the holidays!

https://ginassketches.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/commissions-for-the-holidays/
Go here to purchase select Sktchy art

Gina Lento

AEDM DAY 14

So, maybe you are wondering right now about my posts here on Facebook, after I declared a few days ago that I was disgusted with the drama on Facebook and I was leaving. In fact, I have.  I found a way to post on Facebook without accessing my newsfeed.  I have shut off my notifications.  I am still able to follow many of you back, by accessing the mutual groups we are in by a different App. I know many of you are enjoying my posts,  thanks to your responses letting me know how much you enjoy them.

I also started “It’s a Great Day in America” campaign, as my way of dealing with the negativity in our country.  I may be moving those posts to their own blog.

Today’s sketch was done at the Doctors office. I like sketching through windows.  It passed the time in the waiting room.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Go here to have your special moment, pet portrait designed for the holidays!

https://ginassketches.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/commissions-for-the-holidays/
Go here to purchase select Sktchy art

Gina Lento

It’s a great Day in America Day 3


This sketch is a repeat but it sums up what I want to say today….there is so much preoccupation with negativity in the media and social media that many times the nice things are overlooked.  People don’t post the everyday heroes.   The person that holds the door open for you.  The lady that lets you go when you are pulling out of a driveway.  The woman down by the bay who took it upon herself to take care of an injured egret.  Everyday heroes.  Let’s make it a great day by posting all the nice things that occur during your day.

AEDM Day 13

Hello again!  Day 13 is a few sketches I did to fill up my sketchbook.  More Car butt drawings.  These are the last three pages in this sketchbook and I am happy that I finished another sketchbook for 2016.

 I have been dragging this large 9×12 sketchbook around for a couple of weeks.  I embellished some pages, and others like these sketches, are just exercises in keeping the eye trained.  

These car butt sketches were done while my husband was driving, obviously.  It’s a bit of challenge to sketch in a car.  The pen jiggles and skips, but that leads to what we artists call “happy accidents.”  Cars are moving targets and they change lanes or turn off the road so you either have to continue your drawing with a different car or abandon it because you can’t turn an SUV shape into a Sentra.

  Thanks again to my friend Helen, from across “the pond,” for showing that you can accomplish much even from short jaunts in the car.


Go here to have your special moment, pet portrait designed for the holidays!

https://ginassketches.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/commissions-for-the-holidays/
Go here to purchase select Sktchy art

Gina Lento

It’s a Great Day in America Day 2 – How about picking up the phone?

It’s a beautiful November Day.  The leaves are in their full autumn color.  The nights are clear and crisp.

We popped out to pick up a few things, football is the chit chat of the day.  People saw my husband’s shirt and were asking what he thought about today’s game.  Business as usual.  He’s a Jets fan, pity him.

The sky didn’t fall, however there was a bad earthquake in New Zealand.  I saw this as I checked the Weather Channel app for recording today’s weather in my “morning pages.” I have been getting my “news” from TWC.  

To rid myself from toxic information,  I closed off all notifications for Facebook on my phone and actually had a nice quiet day yesterday.  Staying away from toxic slanted media is a good thing to do, too.

Facebook is great for keeping up with family and friends who aren’t close by, but nothing beats a letter or a phone call.   

So today is “Pick up the phone day.”  Try to call someone today that you haven’t spoken to in while but you chat with on Facebook.  Or, like my husband would tell his employees, pick up the phone instead of 5000 emails to discuss something.  It actually takes more time to do something by email or text than to just pick up a phone to discuss it!