Pastel – Page 8 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Today’s painting

Fire Island Lighthouse

A bunch of us went out this evening to paint on Fire Island. We dragged our gear down toward the lighthouse. It was a beautiful evening. It was supposed to rain but the clouds blew away and left us with a juicy golden lit lighthouse. A lot of us painted the lighthouse and itContinue reading “Fire Island Lighthouse”

Painting in a boatyard

It was a cool, grey day. Some friends and I popped over to a local boatyard to paint. It was an interesting place and full of local history. I walked around a bit. Looks different from this side, usually I am sketching this location from the other side of Patchogue River. I decided on thisContinue reading “Painting in a boatyard”

Paint the Great South Bay Nocturnal painting

Today was the first day of Paint the Great South Bay. The artists participating in this event have all this week to paint and then choose their best two paintings to hang in the wet paint show and sale on Sunday, September 3rd. The first organized painting event for this week was aContinue reading “Paint the Great South Bay Nocturnal painting”

Today’s sketches

Good evening folks! FYI to my blog followers: I want to say thank you for following my blog. I appreciate you! I will be showing my appreciation soon with some changes that I am working on. Stay tuned for that! My Twitter and Instagram will each have their own exclusive “thing” as well. IContinue reading “Today’s sketches”

Today’s sketch

Today’s sketch is a bit different. I tried a minimalist/monochrome approach by using one pan pastel color. Then I brushed on a medium to keep the pastel in place. This is “Alone” 9×9

Tonight’s Sktchy is “out of this world”

The weekend challenge for Sktchy this weekend is “space.” I was going to do the moon until I found a photo of outer space….it was black and white so I took a few liberties by adding color. This is called “Cosmos” Pastel with a splash of white acrylic paint on multimedia pastel board.

Today’s Sktchy is not a sketch….

“Nocturnal Palm” I have painted palms and other trees nocturnally many times….the most fun was painting around midnight after a night out….lol….the local cops must have thought those crazy artists with the lights on their heads were nuts….the best part of plein air painting is painting nocturnes….. Can’t wait to get back to Florida toContinue reading “Today’s Sktchy is not a sketch….”