# Lenti creates touchscreen tablet art of women while healing from injury

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/lenti-creates-touchscreen-tablet-art-of-women-while-healing-from-injury/
- Published: 2021-02-07T09:15:54-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.indexjournal.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio