Pen & ink – Page 50 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Today’s sketches

So, today I took my new improved Moleskine out to sketch. I had a small window of time to sketch before I had to go bome and heat up dinner for the family. (Yesterday’s leftovers). I saw the flag down by the bay and I stopped to sketch it. I used my Lamy Safari penContinue reading “Today’s sketches “

Morning pages and Today’s Sketch

Today’s Sktchy (106) and a lettering exercise from my morning pages… Again, because of the holiday, my sktchy and IFJM are combined.

Today’s sketch

This sketch and my IFJM page are combined today, I am baking my Easter Bread as I type this….this is Sktchy #105….I am off to finish my other Easter tasks….

Serenity sketch

This was sketched in my morning pages…

Making a statement with a sketch

Today’s sktchy prompt was Art Activism. I went to the local aquarium today….I saw some creatures that I know are struggling against human greed and indifference. I took a photo of a snow monkey and used him for my #sktchy30 #day13. In the sketch, I used the poem “all things bright and beautiful” and addedContinue reading “Making a statement with a sketch”

Today’s sketch

Sketching with the sketch club this evening. I had just enough time to do the line drawing before it got too dark.

Today’s sketch

“Tiny baby”. This is collage/gesso/pencil and acrylic….I cut a hand shape out of a magazine and then I used gesso to “glue” it down. I brushed gesso over the top the collaged piece and then used pencil to pull out the details of the hand. Then I used acrylics to do the puppy. I haveContinue reading “Today’s sketch”

Today’s sketch

Today’s sketch shared double duty with the International Fake Journal Month….. This is the sketch…. you can see the IFJm completed version here… https://talesfromtheplants.wordpress.com/

Today’s sketch

Today is the 8th of the 30 day challenge and the 98th for the year….

Sktchy #94

#sktchy30 Day 4 of 30, Day 94 for 2017…Spaces for art…..many of us started out with small spaces like this chair, to create art. Whether it was our parents kitchen tables, a corner of our childhood rooms, a dining room table….. As adult women artists, many of us get married; we became moms and thenContinue reading “Sktchy #94”