2019 – Page 2 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Inktober Week 1 Spread

Every day I do small, vignette type of sketches. I’ve been doing them for a while now and some of them have inspired more finished pieces. I don’t normally post them but here is the the first week of Inktober (Monday thru Sunday.)

Inktober Week 2

Here are my Inktober sketches for Days 8 – 14:

Inktober Week 1

It’s Inktober…….again. Like an endless loop on Groundhog Day. I am a week behind with my postings but that’s ok because I figured it’s easier on your in boxes, lol. I am working on three simultaneous daily tasks. These are done every day just to keep the creative juices flowing. One is my daily postcardContinue reading “Inktober Week 1”

Back to school

Here is another “Little Witch and Kitty” post. I don’t know if I will be posting these every day since October is in a week and I may going gung ho on a mixed media project. Today I remembered to photograph the actual back of the postcard…hopefully you can read it without me having toContinue reading “Back to school”

Yesterday was the first day of Autumn

This post was supposed to go out yesterday. John and I have been very busy going through all of our belongings to reduce what we have, then putting it out for yard sales. It’s been taking some time and it pulls me away from my desk. I still create daily but I keep getting pulledContinue reading “Yesterday was the first day of Autumn”

Morning Page

Every morning I do a page spread like this. I first learned about it from Carla Sonheim when she introduced us to The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Carla showed us how she did a page in her sketchbook and over the years I have tweaked it to fit my needs. I took my timeContinue reading “Morning Page”

Paint the Great South Bay

It’s that time of year again where I am the chairperson for an annual plein air event. I get to participate but I am obviously not eligible for prizes but that’s ok. When my paintings sell, that’s prize enough for me. As typical with plein air, there are adventures to tell. Several storms this week,Continue reading “Paint the Great South Bay”

Infinite Sketch

I signed up to participate in the Sketchbook Project’s “Infinite Sketch.” You get a 6×9 postcard with some art supplies and you create a segment of a creature that will connect to another artists’ segment, and so on. One artist gets selected for the head and another gets the butt. I’m somewhere in the middleContinue reading “Infinite Sketch”

It’s August

My show was up for a month and a half but regretfully, it’s over. It was a lot of fun. It was on exhibit at the Patchogue Theatre for the Arts. We get a lot of great shows at the Patchogue Theatre. For those of you that didn’t see it, it was whimsical and charming.Continue reading “It’s August”

Laughing gulls

These guys nest on the East Coast. They are a summer staple along the New Jersey coastline. Growing up, we went down the Shore every summer and our summer days were filled with laughing gull calls. Note: people from South Jersey and Philadelphia do not call it the “Jersey Shore.” 😱 We call it “downContinue reading “Laughing gulls”