Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Birthday Kitty

Mom’s birthday is coming up so a festive kitty or two is called for to celebrate.

Week of Doodles and kitty

Here is today’s kitty and this past week’s doodle page!

Enjoy!

Today’s kitty

Today’s sketch was actually done yesterday because I knew I would be on the road today and probably wouldn’t get a kitty done today.

Read on….

Today we started the task of cleaning out Mom’s house. She has a lot of stuff. John and I brought three containers thinking we’s get most of Mom’s Halloween decorations in there. We were wrong. I am not going through a whole laundry list of what mom has. She has too much stuff and now that she has downsized, we need to get rid of stuff.

I saw something in the AARP magazine saying that we need to get rid of stuff and only keep what is really special to us. If we can’t part with stuff now, our family members will have no problem with parting with it after we are gone. Hmmm. Maybe I need to have a yard sale for my own stuff.

Alley cat

My friend Rosi says this kitty hangs out behind her house. She took the reference photo and flagged it for me to sketch for my mom.

No swimming

John and I went down to the bay after dinner this evening. I realized I hadn’t done my kitty postcard yet so we parked over where some people were fishing. Ironically it was the No Swimming sign that inspired me.

Tonight’s sketch

There was a grand opening of a new cafe today. All organic juice bar, açaí bowls, smoothies, etc. It was packed tonight. It’s like the whole gym down the street emptied out and went to the new juice bar. I sketched these three girls. I added the kitty😎.

Blasé kitty

This kitty is expressing his opinion about many things, in his own way. Lol

Today’s kitty

Today’s kitty is a bit of mixed media. I cropped the reference a lot to get the peeking head that you see here…

Reference photo from the Sktchy app.

This week’s doodles and today’s kitty

Here is my week long doodles. I do one a day. It only takes a few minutes to do one and it has become part of my morning routine. Most times, what I am doodling is what happened the day before, unless I post about the weather.

Here is today’s kitty. This one is an imaginary kitty that I used the three primary colors, brown and added some white and black.

Mom and her kitties

As I am typing this, I realized that I forgot to take pix of Mom with her two cats. I sketch her cats from memory, photos would help. Oh well, next trip. Anyway, no sketches of cats today since we were there to visit Mom. Instead, I am posting photos of mom with her kitty postcards.

Mom has been getting her little postcard cats. She doesn’t always remember to go to her mailbox. When we checked today, she had 6 cards she hadn’t retrieved. I took pictures of her opening her cards and later, after we took her out for lunch, we hung her cards for her on the wall on little clotheslines. She loves her postcards. I know there are still a few on the way. We left her the little clothesline clips to hang more cats.

For close friends and family, I want to let you know, Mom’s memory is getting worse. She knows it. If you are planning a visit, don’t wait. Put it on your immediate “to do” list.