One way artists convey space (or in this case, depth) is by using perspective. This lesson builds on the fifth graders' previous landscape painting unit, where they learned to depict space/depth through relative size, detail, and color value.
Fifth graders took a crack at perspective by creating these one-point perspective drawings, learning how to construct their perspectives using a horizon line, vanishing point, and multiple guidelines. They also studied how one-point perspective was used in DaVinci's The Last Supper and other paintings. In this lesson, I de-emphasized the realism of the student's details, preferring instead that they concentrated on learning how perspective works to show space or depth. We focused on simple elements that could be drawn in perspective - a road, a row of telephone poles and a simple buildings. Some students also used perspective on their building details, like signs, doors, and windows. Students then added other details to their drawings that didn't require perspective, and colored the drawings predominantly with watercolor paints.
One rewarding aspect of this lesson was noting how some students who aren't necessarily adept at more "freewheeling" types of art quickly adapted to this more "mechanical" type of drawing. Maybe some future architects and engineers were born!
Fifth graders took a crack at perspective by creating these one-point perspective drawings, learning how to construct their perspectives using a horizon line, vanishing point, and multiple guidelines. They also studied how one-point perspective was used in DaVinci's The Last Supper and other paintings. In this lesson, I de-emphasized the realism of the student's details, preferring instead that they concentrated on learning how perspective works to show space or depth. We focused on simple elements that could be drawn in perspective - a road, a row of telephone poles and a simple buildings. Some students also used perspective on their building details, like signs, doors, and windows. Students then added other details to their drawings that didn't require perspective, and colored the drawings predominantly with watercolor paints.
One rewarding aspect of this lesson was noting how some students who aren't necessarily adept at more "freewheeling" types of art quickly adapted to this more "mechanical" type of drawing. Maybe some future architects and engineers were born!
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