One Point Perspective-Names

5th grade students have now been introduced to perspective. Perspective is the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point. Have you ever looked far, far down a road and everything at the point of vanishing looks extremely tiny?! Well, when drawing a scene like that, you need to use an artist device called one point perspective. Every line and shape must all angle to one single point to make it look proportionate to the objects around the vanishing point. First the students were given a powerpoint presentation with images in one point perspective. They were shown DaVinci's, "The Last Supper", in which everything was constructed by DaVinci in one point perspective. We also looked at some images in the neighborhood that I took while driving that show one point perspective. To practice drawing this very difficult illusion we started with creating the students names in boxy letters and making them look 3D by bringing each of the points of the letter to one single vanishing point. Although this is actually more difficult than the landscape we will be creating, they will be pro's at this when we start creating our landscapes! 

Learning Objectives: One Point Perspective, using a ruler, mathematics

ART WORDS: 
Vanishing Point: Point at which images appear to vanish. Where all angles of a drawing in one point perspective will all go to this one single point.
Horizon Line:   (also called eye level) marks the point where the sky meets the land or water below. The vanishing point is often on this line.