Backgrounds with Loren

Student Activities
Written By Loren, Workshop Coordinator

BACKGROUNDS & LANDSCAPES

by Loren

Hi, how’s it going, everybody? We are going to work on some backgrounds. Let’s try to think about somewhere we’d like to be in the future—maybe 3–5 years from now. It can be a city or nature or even something more abstract and inventive. Once that thought is captured, we will begin to build what we envisioned. 

EXAMPLES

DEMO SET UP

  1. You’re gonna need tape and some scissors to get started.

  2. Tape four pieces of paper together like a square.

LANDSCAPE DEMO

I choose to do the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Here are some tips for how I did mine:

  1. Sketch out your horizon line.

  2. Place your largest structures first.

  3. Outline all the significant features.

  4. Start to fill in the areas of your composition with color and slash collage.

  5. Use paint, colored pencils, or pastels to fill in the large areas of color.

There you are, see you all next time!

Loren, Workshop Coordinator

Loren LeBlanc visits artworxLA's communities as a Workshop Coordinator, supporting Teaching Artists while his students explore themes from cultural partners' exhibitions and facilitates their finished projects for presentations. Loren LeBlanc is a Los Angeles native artist and educator with a passion for interactive/immersive learning and artistic experiences. His fine arts practice has focused primarily on integrating traditional sculptural techniques, such as hand built clay and TIG welding, with state-of the-art technologies such as 3D scanning, modeling and printing. His goal within artworxLA is to help inspire and influence creativity and productivity within young learners, especially students of color and those growing through difficult circumstances.

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