The Three Snow Bears

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#kindergartenart #polarbears inspired by @janbrettauthor “The Three Snow Bears” @waitsfieldschool #elementaryart

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One Point Perspective

What is One Point Perspective?

We looked at some examples of artwork to try to answer this question.

We identified that One Point Perspective means:
Objects are smaller as their distance from the viewer increases.
There is a horizon line, which is as far as the eye can see
There is a vanishing point, a point on the horizon where all lines converge and disappear.

We used this great tutorial from smART Class to help lay out our One Point Perspective drawings.  Students could choose any location that shows One Point Perspective, but as often is the case, many chose to follow the example. 

Blind Contour Drawing

 

Blind Contour Drawing is an exercise where the artist does not look at the paper while drawing the contour or outline of an object or person.

Fifth and sixth grade artists created Blind Contour Portraits. Some students chose to add color.

Fill-in-the-Blank Landscapes

Fifth and sixth grade artists are wrapping up one of my favorite art lessons.  They created beautiful Fill-in-the-Blank Landscape drawings using only colored pencil.  Students chose landscape photographs from old calendars, then cut them into two inch strips. After the removed every other strip from the photographs, they had to recreate the image in the blank space.  This lesson taught us a lot about color mixing, drawing what you see, not what you know and how to use colored pencils in a more advanced way than most students have before.  The results are spectacular!

Drawing houses with perspective

Fifth and sixth grade artists are studying Vermont artist Sabra Field. Many of her prints have buildings in them: houses, barns, churches, etc. As artists planned their Sabra Field-inspired landscapes, I realized we needed to have some instruction around drawing houses. I found a great step-by-step video that helped to simplify the process. Although I often shy away from directed drawing instruction, I felt this worked really well and most students were satisfied with the results.

Vocabulary:
Perspective, Vanishing point, Angle, Horizon, Point of view

Check out this video for some tips on drawing houses with perspective:

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