sketch – Page 9 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Drawing people

I have a daily practice of drawing people. If no one is handy, I use the SKTCHY app for reference. I do two types of sketches. A five minute timed sketch and a Cheater Blind Contour sketch. I use brush fountain pens for the the timed 5 minute sketch. This helps with my brush skills.Continue reading “Drawing people”

Sketchbook fun

It was a wet stormy day the other on Independence Day. Usually we get hit by a passing storm in the evening. Sometimes we just get “heat lightning.” Other days we get the whole kickass “boom- booms- light- show” and then no rain at all. On Independence Day, we got the whole show and weContinue reading “Sketchbook fun”

Twinkle Twinkle Little Bee…..

What? What happened to star? A prompt from Carla Sonheim’s “Best of 365” was to come up with new lyrics to “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” but you have to include the words “Giggle, Dizzy, minty, bee, sour.” Here’s what I came up with:

Stretch kitty and last night’s sketches

Another kitty done with recycled materials…. Our sketch club went to a small nature area last night. It’s a town park that is geared toward wildlife. Lots of wild flowers.

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😎.