Lenti creates touchscreen tablet art of women while healing from injury

Photo: During the course of many weeks and months, artist Marianne Lenti has painstakingly honed her skills painting with a touchscreen tablet. Here, she works on a portrait of a nurse, inspired by vintage photographs. […] Submitted Photo. Article by St. Claire Donaghy. Index-Journal – February 6, 2021.

In October 2020, a discarded tree limb, a fall and a broken shoulder put painting with a brush on hold for Marianne Lenti.

The largely self-taught artist of Greenwood found an innovative workaround. She was told she could continue using a computer while her shoulder fracture healed.

“I had already started drawing and painting women,” Lenti recalls. “I had done three canvases, with one woman per canvas, but when I fell and broke my shoulder in October, I didn’t feel like painting again right away.

“After a while, after the serendipity, I guess, of breaking my shoulder, and being stuck at home, old photographs, black and white images, became something of an inspiration,” Lenti said. “Working from photographs is nothing new for artists. I sketch it out in gray, just using the iPad.”

Lenti said her husband, Tony, emeritus professor of music at Lander University, has also long been a skilled amateur photographer. He taught her how to compose images and take photographs. […]

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