What Does Your City Look Like? Los Angeles City Scapes with Sunset Background

Students looked at images of city skylines.
One important image was the image of Los Angeles' skyline.

Using a "tap and turn" painting technique, students painted the background sunset
with red, yellow, orange, and white. Each time they dipped their brush in for more paint,
they were tapping the brush in more than one color. This technique makes blending easy, and helps colors mix freely.

Sunset plus some mountains, to model a typical Los Angeles day.

Students rubbed various textures under their paper to create a concrete look, then added geometric shapes to emulate windows on the buildings.