Persevering with Perspective

Last week, about half of Year 5 were able to commence the watercolour backgrounds for their cityscapes. Others persevered with the challenging perspective sketch of an art gallery interior. Some great line and pattern work is happening with the textured floorboards and some creative ideas are working their way into the gallery "paintings". Well done, Year 5, inspiring to see so much thought and problem-solving and creativity happening.

 

 

 

What's Next?

Year 5 have been enjoying our experiments with perspective drawing. This week some of  us commenced an indoor perspective sketch based on this art gallery idea from the Kids Artists blog. 

We don't have any of our own pictures ready yet, but we hope to show you some soon. If you haven't tried this yet, you can follow the link above to the instructions and try it yourself. We looked at other examples of indoor perspective drawings too. You can find some more at http://www.childs.mccsc.edu/art2000/art1p3.htm and http://www.art-rageous.net/Perspective.html . If you are finding it a bit tricky, you could try printing this worksheet to help.

You could also create an aquarium scene like this one from Once Upon an Artroom. Notice how the people are silhouettes?

One-point perspective adds depth to shapes and letters. Even little people can do it, as we can see here. There are lots more "Shooting Shapes" on the Artsonia website. You could try some shapes or letters yourself.

5B has already looked at a few examples of Op Art (optical illusion art). For something a bit more challenging, you could try a one point perspective design with your name, combined with an Op Art pattern like this one from Kids Artists.

Challenge yourself! Have fun! Hope we can publish some of your work soon!

Works-in-Progress

Over the next few weeks, Year 5 will be creating exciting cityscapes (with perhaps a touch of surrealism) using one-point perspective. This week we looked at examples of using one-point perspective to create depth. Here are some of 5B and 5G's works-in-progress. These artworks were inspired by those found at the "There's a Dragon in My Artroom" blog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Perspective Practice

Last week, students from 5E and 5B were also introduced to perspective sketching. Here are some of their works-in-progress.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get a new perspective!
  Inspired by this sketch on the "My Messy Artroom" blog 

Before beginning to draw, Year 5 looked at photographs and sketches that illustrate the one-point perspective concept from the following sites

http://mymessyartroom.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/one-point-perspective-why-did-chicken.html

http://kidsartists.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/patchwork-landscape.html

http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2011/05/perspective-and-use-of-diagonal.html

http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2012/03/05/one-point-perspective-art-lesson/

Perspective in Colour

5E have been using their spare moments to complete their first attempt at perspective drawings  (see the post below ) The colour has brought them to life! They are looking forward to showing them to the other Year 5s. Click on a picture to see a larger image