Two Point Perspective Art

Last week I took an art rotation with each half of my class during our technology time. We looked at one point perspective art of a basic room. The technical drawing and language that the children used sold me on attempting this type of art again and extending their pieces.

With group one student's looked a two point perspective art of a country house and with group two student's looked at two point perspective art of a city. I am pleased with the outcome of their drafts. They are still in draft phase of these pieces at this stage, they discussed how two point perspective is much harder than one. Some students chose to leave certain features out of their art due to difficulty or no room based on where they placed their finishing points. 

Things the students noticed for their final pieces:

- Rulers are a must!

- Don't press to hard because you need to rub some lines out 

- You use a lot of lines in these pieces as a guide for windows, doors etc..

- Where you put your vanishing points will affect the size and shape of certain features 

- There is a lot of maths in this type of art

- Student's believe these art pieces look best in pencil form (most didn't want to add colour or too much detail because they thought it would take away from or ruin the piece)

Two Point Perspective City

Student Work:

Two Point Perspective Cottage

Student Work:

One Point Perspective Art

One point perspective art was our focus for today's art session. Students have had opportunities to create a range of colourful and expressive pieces of art throughout the year. I wanted student's to attempt something a little more technical and structured.

We began the session by looking at a range of perspective art works and discussing their key features. This prompted a lot of discussion and we talked extensively about distance and relationships between various objects, the vanishing point and perspectives from a range of angles.

Student's found this activity challenging at first. They needed a ruler, rubber, pencil and blank piece of paper. The confusion came from the angled lines that came from the vanishing point. It took student's a while to grasp the concept that all angles come from and go to the vanishing point.

I was impressed with the amount of Mathematics language they were using when discussing their pieces. They spoke about parallel lines, vertical and horizontal lines, angles, shape, distance and scale.

We used the following video as a guide for our first piece. Student's followed the instructions from this video as their first draft and introduction to one point perspective. They will be designing their own rooms using the rules from today's session to show their understanding of one point perspective.
Students will be adding colour to their pieces and their own uniqueness with what the put outside the window, in the paintings and on the walls.

Examples of student work:

This work is unfinished and in draft form