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Lauren Eckard

Scenic Artist

Hi! Welcome to my portfolio! My name is Lauren and I’m an artistic collaborator and scenic artist with a diverse set of skills ranging from airbrushing to foam carving. I love working in a team to create unique projects; the weirder the better.

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@lauren.eck.art
View fullsize Blue Dragon Trophy Mount! This is probably my favorite project I’ve done so far. I spent this project figuring out and learning new sculpting techniques. The dragon is built from paper, cheesecloth, bead foam, air dry clay, tape and wire. I add
View fullsize Final for my immersive art independent study! Thank you @grey.nicholson for helping me with the lighting for this project. It’s roughly a 2’ x 4’ carved foam block with RGB paintings. Through my independent study I came to the concl
View fullsize Third foam carving ever! Learned what I can and cant rush with this project. 2nd capstone done :) #dragon #foamcarving #novacolor #rosco #scenicpainting #scenicart #dnd
View fullsize Funny small UV painting I did for my Immersive Art independent study. I 100% misspelled thoughts but it’s better this way. Thank you Ad, for letting me use Jarrah as a reference. #uvpaint #modernmasters #roscopaint #scenicart #scenicpaintin
View fullsize First capstone project completed and three more to go! I had so much fun with faux finishing.
View fullsize 8’ x 4’ Airbrush portrait of Ian McKellen as Gandalf from “Lord of the Rings”. Painted only with pneumatic sprayers and airbrushes. Swipe to see progress photos and the tools I used for his hair and beard!
View fullsize Faux Stained Glass from Intensive Arts. Thanks to @tesscrabtree for teaching us!
View fullsize Baba Yaga coming to your table soon
View fullsize I’ve gotten into painting D&D miniatures! Sharkenbear, wolves, kobold sorcerer, and wolf pup. I’ve also set up anEtsy shop, Cantripsandchaos, for painted miniatures: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cantripsandchaos
View fullsize Slooooowly getting better :)
View fullsize Basic shape of foam carving completed! Next semester I will finish details, foam coating and painting
View fullsize Thank you thank you thank you to @dustinspagnola for coming to UNCSA and doing a graffiti art workshop with the scenic paint program. I learned so much and it was exciting to find out sign painting and graffiti artists have a lot of overlap. It was
View fullsize Faux rust on faux metal! Thank you to @katie_pulling_artist for teaching us alternative materials for faux finishing during intensive arts. I used wood stain, sawdust, shellac, water based paint and of all things cinnamon! Swipe to see the before and
View fullsize Lettering Practice!! I’m slowly getting the hang of the different sign painting brushes .
View fullsize Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd 🪒🩸 I had the opportunity to be the lead painter of UNCSA’s production of “Sweeney Todd”. I got to work under Renae, the charge artist, and it was so much fun. It was awesome to collaborate about t
View fullsize 4’x4’ on muslin. I’ve been getting to help with the sampling process for UNCSA’s upcoming Winter Opera “Orlando Paladino”. I loved playing the different masking techniques and mica powder. It’s been fun wor