Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Sixth Grade Perspective Drawing

Sixth graders learned how to draw in one-point perspective. In one-point perspective, all diagonal lines lead to the same point, called the vanishing point. Students designed and created their dream rooms, including furniture, skylights, and home decor. This is a super creative and quirky class, and the room themes ranged from candy to ocean to outer space!

Click here for a great tutorial on one-point perspective by art educator Harold Olejarz!

Here are some wonderful examples of the rooms:











Seventh Grade Shading

Seventh graders spend the first trimester learning about how to use value, or variations of light and darkness, to create special effects in their artwork.  Click here to see some of the prep work they did and some of the images they viewed and discussed!

Here are some samples of their shading work: