Patchogue – Page 3 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

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😎.

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”

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”

Sketching more shoes

I met with my sketch club tonight at the local library. We sketched shoes. Not just any shoes, they had to be fancy dress shoes. We did something different this evening where we had timed 15 minute sessions and then we had to move down 2 chairs to another place. It gave everyone a chanceContinue reading “Sketching more shoes”

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.

Another painting started

This boat has been put out to pasture. It’s a shame because it looked like it used to be a nice boat. It’s pretty big. Word in the boatyard is that it is being stripped down and it will be burned in a boat burning next month in Sayville. I wanted to capture it’s lastContinue reading “Another painting started”

Today’s sketches

More goats and people….

Paint the Great South Bay Quick Draw

Today was quick draw day. I checked the artists in and stamped their canvases/paper in front of the Patchogue Theater. It was a good morning for painting! The artists were given a timed painting session from 9 am and had to be back by 12 pm to be judged. Because I was doing administrativeContinue reading “Paint the Great South Bay Quick Draw “

Catch

This took me two sessions to paint because when you paint outside, the light is always changing. Plus painting with oils is not like painting with pastels, pastels are more forgiving. So I went back two days later when the light was the same and finished it. I don’t normally work in oils but IContinue reading “Catch”