Sketches – Page 59 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Undercover kitty

Here is another kitty. This one is doing a bit of undercover work…. The App that I use for live reference photos is Sktchy on iPhone. If you would like me to draw your kitty for my mom, post your cat photos on Sktchy with the hashtag #ginapleasedrawmycat

An update and today’s kitty for mom

Mom received several of her kitty cards. She was really excited. She was a little confused, she wanted to know where I “bought” them. I had to remind her that I did them. She loved the Mother’s Day card with her cats and couldn’t stop laughing about it. She kept saying it looked like theContinue reading “An update and today’s kitty for mom”

Recent sketches

I have been getting out to sketch, squeezing time in between projects that I have been working on. There has bee some events and activity in Patchogue so these sketches are a sampling of what I have done recently. The Heron was an exercise from Sketchbook Survival where we used a brush instead of aContinue reading “Recent sketches”

Feeling a bit crabby

A few years ago I took a year long class with Carla Sonheim and Lynn Whipple, called Year of the Spark. One of the assignments was automatic writing in little booklets that we made just for the purpose of writing in them. I have done a bunch of them and occasionally I use them asContinue reading “Feeling a bit crabby”

Today’s Sketch/Tomorrow’s Fundraiser

Here is today’s sketch and information on a fundraiser where I will be selling some of my work.

5 Min Timed

Inspired by Sktchy

30 Pages 30 Days

Day 20 #30Pages30Days Today we went to Denny’s for breakfast. It’s my father-in-law’s 89th birthday and he wanted to celebrate with his friends, and get his free breakfast, lol. This sketchbook is the #Leichtturm1917 I used my Uniball pen and Peerless watercolors. The Leuchtturm1917 is not wet work friendly but I have been making itContinue reading “30 Pages 30 Days”

Lettering page

Playing around with some lettering art and a verse from ELO’s Eldorado.

Sunday Sun

The temperature is finally in the low ’80’s, it’s the weekend and there is no wind so everyone seems to be going to the beach today. I love Florida, up North everyone is still celebrating St Patty’s Day (it appears to be a month long celebration on Long Island, another reason to abandon ship inContinue reading “Sunday Sun”

Happy St Patrick’s Day

We “celebrate” the old fashioned way, we cook/ bake and eat together as a family. My family is basically UK Isles. So I am a little of everything, Brit, Scottish, Irish, etc. My husband doesn’t mind (he’s Italian), there’s Irish Soda bread so as long as there is bread, he’s happy. And no, I doContinue reading “Happy St Patrick’s Day”