5th grade
One Point Perspective Landscapes
For the past few weeks, 5th grade has been working on their one point perspective drawings.They have taken us quite a while, but they're turning out quite nicely! Before I started teaching the lesson, I gave them a piece of paper that asked about one point perspective, and then asked them to draw a picture of a road. Here's a few of their drawings before instruction.
For this project, we go through the steps (which there are a lot of) together.
We start with the horizon line, draw the vanishing point, create the road, and then the guide lines going to our vanishing point. (all together, with ruler and a pencil) I tell them they need to do trees on the left of their paper, but they can do something different on the right side of their paper. They can choose what type of tree, or cactus, they want to do and we draw them together. They can also choose what type of environment they want to do as well. Beach, desert, country, city, etc.
The next class, we focus on what they will put on the right side. I have how to draw building packets, how to draw fence packets, and I go over how to draw both on my document camera. I also demonstrate how to draw water at a distance. So many want to draw their water from a bird's eye view! There's so much you can do with this type project, but I wanted to keep it simple so I wouldn't overwhelm my 5th graders! We draw with pencil, trace with Sharpie markers, and color with Crayola Twistables.
Here are their papers, after instruction. They showed tremendous improvement, and did a marvelous job!
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| Katherine |
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| Betzy |
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| Penelope |
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| Bonny |
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| Miles |
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| Anthony |
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| Jayla |
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| Lucia |
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| SueAnn |
