We had Tropical Storm Isaias visit. It was supposed to be a hurricane but it sort of fizzled off shore for a while. We put the shutters up but we really didn’t need them. We only got a little rain. The only interesting/frustrating thing was why couldn’t they pronounce the name correctly and why wouldContinue reading “A little storm sketch”
Category Archives: Sketches
Chasing the elusive Neowise comet
Living in Florida has a lot of pluses. It’s almost always sunny. It’s warm year round. You can eat outside on Christmas Day. Lots of great flora and fauna. The people are nice and friendly. The lizards are insect control so they are always welcome in our screen house. The down side are the damnContinue reading “Chasing the elusive Neowise comet”
Balloons of summer
Playing with my character while listening to Don Henley….. The red balloon has his hair slicked back with his Wayfarers on and he’s off to join the Boys of Summer.
Baby you can drive my car
Another Make Art that sells image. This is a sketchbook rendering that isn’t for sale since it was copied from another image. The idea behind the exercise is to show your skill at drawing various subject matter, in this case, a car…I moved on to add it to a story. I have also been addingContinue reading “Baby you can drive my car”
Making up stories about the objects
I took the objects and made separate sketchbook pages with them. On some of the pages I made up stories about the objects….
Monochrome Sketches of People
Here are more sketches for the MATS class. These were done on the iPad with a Sepia color.
Sketching with my iPad
I was the biggest skeptic of digital “art.” It seemed too easy to draw over photos. Every time I saw a digital portrait on Instagram, I passed because I thought it was too perfect. Then I joined the SKTCHY app on the iPhone and I saw more digital portraits. Some looked way to perfect, butContinue reading “Sketching with my iPad”
This week’s sketches
Happy Mother’s Day to the mom’s out there…It’s another week during Corona Virus World. I have been spending my time creating art, which is business as usual for me. We’ve been watching Ozark in the evenings and finished the first season and are in the second season. That series shows how lies just make peopleContinue reading “This week’s sketches”
April Dailies
Here are the daily doodles for the past four weeks. I just that I have three more weeks worth of pages in this sketchbook and I need to decide if I am 1) continuing these dailies (I like them so I probably will), 2) spend money on another 500 series Strathmore mixed media sketchbook (theContinue reading “April Dailies”
My West Side Story project
I signed up for a bundled group of workshops back in November, before John was laid off, that were running this year. They are for building my on line portfolio. April’s assignment was West Side Story. I actually found this assignment to be a lot of fun, however, a lot of work. It was doneContinue reading “My West Side Story project”
Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration 