morning ritual – Page 3 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Happy New Year!

2019 has ended. John and I have been scurrying around through the holidays. We unpacked the house only to have to repack things to put Christmas decorations out. Now we are in the flip flop stage of putting Christmas away and pulling the everyday stuff back out. I am still using the garage as myContinue reading “Happy New Year!”

December 2-8 Daily Doodles

I switched over to Christmas-y, December-y borders.

November 25 to December 1 Daily doodles

November 11 – 17 daily doodles

Here is my week long daily doodle page from our first week down here. i managed to fit this in during unpacking and reorganizing breaks.

Last 3 weeks of dailies

Well we survived the drive South to Florida. It was an exhausting adventure. The packing was the worst. Right now I am sitting in our garage as a temp studio. I still have a lot of unpacking to do and I am not sure if I want to unpack and just move it all laterContinue reading “Last 3 weeks of dailies”

Inktober Week 3 one page spread

Here is my daily one-box-per-day spread for Inktober Week 3. This is a daily ritual I do anyway but this month I decided to take more time embellishing the borders. I usually spend Sunday evenings drawing the borders and I find it quite relaxing. This way the page is ready for the first entry onContinue reading “Inktober Week 3 one page spread”

Inktober Week 2 Spread

Here are my daily vignettes for week 2:

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.)

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”

Painting au jour

Here is another recent painting for your viewing pleasure….. It’s a collage/mixed media piece. 12×16 Here is a quick sketch I did this morning using the Sktchy app on iPhone. The young man had a scrunched up face and it made me laugh. He was sketched in a drawing box that I have reserved inContinue reading “Painting au jour”