Putting Galleries in Perspective

As the term draws to a close, our works in progress (see posts below) are being completed. Congratulations  Year 5, you have shown, persistence and creativity.

Reaching for the Skies

Congratulations on your striking creations Year 5. Looking forward to publishing more of the finished products next week.

Inspired by the works published at "There's a Dragon in My Artroom" Year 5 have been creating their own striking cityscapes using one-point-perspective, on watercolour backgrounds. Don't forget to check out our SFO's  - Surrealist Flying Objects!

Click on the thumbnails below to see larger images.

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!