![]() ![]() Then we look at a tree that is as far away as we can spot. We note the colors and textures in the bark and leaves, the shapes in the leaves, etc. They are also OVERLAPPING others if closest, and OVERLAPPED as they get farther away.įinally, we look at a close tree. Things look BIGGER close up, and SMALLER far away. The bottom of items seems LOWER Close up, gets HIGHER as it moves away. From any point, they can now see someone who is farther away than someone else. Next, I send students to spread out on the length of the sidewalk. First entry: Close – wide, Far – narrow for parallel lines. Then we take a ‘field trip’ outside, and stand at the end of a sidewalk to see how the sides converge as they move away from us. I make a T-Chart, with CLOSE on one side and FAR on the other. One of the “TIPS” I give my students is, “Vertical is ALWAYS vertical”! This seems to help them avoid making things “lay down” to make the angle work between what they KNOW and what we SEE.Īnother tip is to teach how to show Close Up and Far Away first. These amazing desert perspective landscapes took my 5th grade students between 3-5, 45-minutes sessions to finish. The traced over their pencil lines with a black marker and used a combination of colored pencils and markers to color. To finish up, the students created a background, foreground and desert details.The two road lines follow the bottom angle line, starting small or close together at the left hand side of the paper (vanishing point) and growing larger as it nears the right hand side of the paper. If you know me, you would know that I love when kids break the (art) rules, so this was just a fun way to reinforce the rules of perspective. I had some fun with the kids at this point because I would make them erase their cactus and follow the rules. Many will forget the rule and start drawing random cactuses. The cactus will get smaller if the student keeps the tip and base of the cactus within the two angle lines. Continue to draw the cactus towards the left side of the paper. ![]() To do this, start on one side of the paper and draw a large cactus that extends from the two angle lines.We chose to draw saguaro cactus and a dirt road to demonstrate the perspective.Erase any horizon line marks so this rule doesn’t confuse the kids. The drawing of the cacti and the road will occur on the angle lines and NOT the horizon line.The angle lines don’t have to touch the corners as this might be too steep of an angle. Do again but this time above the horizon line.Trace an angle line to the opposite edge of the paper. ![]() Then, place ruler on one side of the line at the paper’s edge. This way, the crease can act as the horizon line. Or, you can do what I did and folded the paper in half horizontally. ![]()
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