Perspective Activity

After learning about the life and artwork of American Artist Winslow Homer, students began a perspective activity. This is in preparation for a larger painting the students will create beginning at the end of the week. We studied how Homer creates an illusion of depth in many of his paintings by altering the size of objects and people in the foreground, middle ground, and background. Things in the foreground, of course, appear much larger; while, things in the background can appear teeny-tiny. We explored this as a class by splitting our paper into three sections: foreground, middle ground, and background. Then, students tried their hand at drawing simple objects varying in size, but in the appropriate section of the page. The grand finale was learning how to draw a stone or dirt path that travels through all sections of the page.

Some student examples...