Watercolor – Page 17 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

For those who party on Thanksgiving Eve

Eat and be merry!

Sketching stuffed animals at the library and library Sketch Club display

The Patchogue Sketch Club meets at our local library during the dark winter months. We occasionally sketch at a restaurant or other indoor venue in the winter, but the library has become our winter home. The library staff members are very gracious hosts and many of the library’s visitors stop by to see what weContinue reading “Sketching stuffed animals at the library and library Sketch Club display”

Sketching stuffed animals at the library and library Sketch Club display

NYC Urban Sketching at the Dyckman Farmhouse

Today I went into NYC to sketch with the NYC chapter of Urban Sketchers. Today’s sketch outing was a joint venture with the Urban Sketchers of Indonesia to commemorate the Treaty of Breda, where the Dutch traded Manhattan to the English for a monopoly on nutmeg. We are trading sketches with the Indonesians and thisContinue reading “NYC Urban Sketching at the Dyckman Farmhouse”

Breakfast Crawl #5

Yesterday was Patchogue’s 5th Breakfast crawl. I drew my own map of the Breakfast Crawl and submitted it to The Draw and Cook, and it was accepted! You can see the map here: http://www.theydrawandtravel.com/illustrations/10616-breakfast-crawl-5-in-patchogue-new-york John and I bought the 5 ticket crawl so we we only able to sample 5 of the 15 participatingContinue reading “Breakfast Crawl #5”

Sketch Night Sketches

These sketches were done Wednesday evening at Swell Taco with my sketch group.

Horses and yesterday’s Inktober Sketch

I spent over a week researching and working on this map that I did as a very belated Sketchbook Skool Assignment. I was away when the class was “in session” and I mulled over ideas and nothing really inspired me until I saw they were requesting maps for Asia. Then I had to mull thatContinue reading “Horses and yesterday’s Inktober Sketch”

Irma

Well Paint the Great South Bay is a wrap. It went very well and I even made it on the cover of our local newspaper. We sold paintings, we got tacos and ice cream for sketches, whose better than us? Now I am on my way to Chincoteague to participate in their plein airContinue reading “Irma”

Sketching at Swell Taco

Well I realized that I had only 3 stamped pastel panels so I started an 8×10 oil today…..it’s still in progress so I won’t be showing that one yet. Instead, here is the sketch I did at Swell Taco PGSB night in Patchogue. We sketched the hostess, Britt, in a taco costume and we gotContinue reading “Sketching at Swell Taco”