Sixth Grade Perspective Drawing

Sixth Graders learned about the history of perspective drawing in art, from flat Byzantine drawings, to Renaissance artists' experiments with space, to modern usages of perspective to create both realism and optical illusions:

Byzantine Fresco

 

School of Athens, Raphael, 1510

MC Escher

Zaha Hadid

Using one-point perspective drawing techniques, sixth graders created rooms. They learned vocabulary such as horizontal, vertical, and orthogonal to describe the directionality of their lines. 

Following this, they worked in teams to create perspective "drawings" on the bulletin boards in the hallways. First, they sketched their designs. Then, they used masking tape. For a further challenge, some groups learned and used two-point perspective.