drawcatsformom 2018 – Page 21 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

No swimming

John and I went down to the bay after dinner this evening. I realized I hadn’t done my kitty postcard yet so we parked over where some people were fishing. Ironically it was the No Swimming sign that inspired me.

Tonight’s sketch

There was a grand opening of a new cafe today. All organic juice bar, açaí bowls, smoothies, etc. It was packed tonight. It’s like the whole gym down the street emptied out and went to the new juice bar. I sketched these three girls. I added the kitty😎.

Blasé kitty

This kitty is expressing his opinion about many things, in his own way. Lol

Today’s kitty

Today’s kitty is a bit of mixed media. I cropped the reference a lot to get the peeking head that you see here… Reference photo from the Sktchy app.

This week’s doodles and today’s kitty

Here is my week long doodles. I do one a day. It only takes a few minutes to do one and it has become part of my morning routine. Most times, what I am doodling is what happened the day before, unless I post about the weather. Here is today’s kitty. This one is anContinue reading “This week’s doodles and today’s kitty”

Mom and her kitties

As I am typing this, I realized that I forgot to take pix of Mom with her two cats. I sketch her cats from memory, photos would help. Oh well, next trip. Anyway, no sketches of cats today since we were there to visit Mom. Instead, I am posting photos of mom with her kittyContinue reading “Mom and her kitties”

Friday’s kitty

Creative kitty

I wanted to try something different today….I drew this kitty using three colors, plus black and white and no reference photo. I enjoyed working with no restrictions.

Urban sketching and kitties

I went out with my sketch club this evening and we sketched the Patchogue Carnegie Library. This library was built with grant money from Andrew Carnegie. The library has been moved, restored and is now the Teen Center and teen library. I enjoy sketching outside so I got the idea to add a kitty toContinue reading “Urban sketching and kitties”

Casual Kitty

Sometimes the names for these tiny works just pop into my head. Another Sktchy inspired cat, photo submitted by Melanie McGovern. You can have your cat painted for my mom, too. Just head on over to Sktchy, sign up and start posting photos. The hashtag #ginapleasedrawmycat is a great way to flag it so thatContinue reading “Casual Kitty”