A Room Interior

What is the difference between 1-point and 2-point perspective?

(besides the fact the number of vanishing points they each have)

HW: Using the technique similar to the one you see below in Da Vinci's Last Supper, draw a picture of a room in your home. Include furniture and other objects. Make sure that if something is sitting on the floor (like a chair) that the legs of that chair stay on the floor!

Linear Perspective

Read through Linear Perspective pages 128-129.

Analyze fresco by Raphael, The School of Athens:

What is a fresco? How is it different from a mural?
Who are the men in this fresco? What do you think the artist's intentions were?
Can you find the vanishing point? horizon?
What techniques were used (besides linear perspective) to create the illusion of 3-D depth on a 2-D surface?

HW: bring in a image that contains 1-point perspective
(cut out from a magazine or a newspaper)

One-Point Perspective Basics

Now that you have learned how to determine scale, use negative space, and understand the basic rules to create the illusion of depth and volume through size, placement, contrast and overlapping, it is time to learn the basic rules of linear perspective.

You did not have to use linear perspective before because your objects were round. When drawing objects that have angular shapes, you will use the techniques of linear perspective.


Linear perspective can become complex with mathematical calculations. For now, we will keep this real simple:












Vocabulary:

1-point perspective
vanishing point
horizon
converging lines


Here's what One-point boxes look like from above and below, right and left of the vanishing point:

















Practice this technique using a real box. Start by drawing the part of the box that is FACING you first. Let the converging lines create the top or bottom.

If you are viewing the top of a box, is it above or below your eye level?

Don't Keep it All Bottled Up!

We learned an easy way to draw bottles
(which are basically stylized cyllinders).


What a workout! Which muscles did you use most?
Did this surprise you?


Remember: It's your shoulder and your legs that do the work--not your wrist or elbow.

From Shape to Form!

The term value is used in art to describe the lightness or darkness of lines, shapes, and colors.

Look carefully at the sectons of Picasso's drawing Woman in White. Locate at least five different values and try to draw them .

Artists use values in various ways. Picasso shaded objects to make them look three-dimensional (not flat). Shading is a very gradual change from light to dark values.

Describe where you see shading in Woman in White. How does Picasso's use of value effect the work's meaning?

Classwork: turn a circle into a sphere by following the easy guidelines.

HW: Sphere worksheet