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Use the following web sites to assist you in the exercises below:

http://www.olejarz.com/arted/perspective/index.html

Also, please view previous student work on the web site below:

http://hs.yarmouth.k12.me.us/Pages/YSD_YHSTeachers/YSD_YHSMENo/noack0607/onept/onept.html

http://yhs.yarmouth.k12.me.us/Art%20Department/a.yhs.web.03/perspect.one/index.htm

Draw the inside of a room in one-point perspective
and include the following:
• door
• window
• rug
• tile ceiling
• tv
• table
• bed
• wood floor
• skylight

Additional Criteria:
Please experiment first. Use newsprint to get you started.
Draw your interior room LIGHTLY with pencil.
Using colored pencil, color the room.
The choice of color should demonstrate a limited color palette and may or may not be realistic choice of color.

Quality Craftsmanship counts.

Due: Thursday, January 10th

We will begin this in class, to make sure you are on the “right” track.

After looking at and studying the examples of perspective strategies on the following web site, complete the following:
http://www.wiu.edu/art/courses/design/depth.htm

• Find and print a painting that is an example of one of the perspective strategies. Using Google, type in “perspective painting” or “perspective photograph” and click on “image”. You are not limited to these search tools, however, it might be a good place to start. If you choose a photograph, it must be color.

• Tape or Glue the painting to one page of your sketchbook and write the title, date, and artist of the painting.

• One the next page in your sketchbook, copy, not trace, as close as possible, the composition of the painting, being sure to follow the perspective strategy used.

• Using colored pencil, closely match the color scheme of your selected work of art. We understand your colors will not match exactly, but use laying to help achieve a variety of values.

• Pay close attention to detail in the composition and color scheme.

This assignment will be collected and graded as a homework assignment. It is due at the beginning of class on Friday, January, 4th.

Use the following web sites as resources to find the answers to the questions below:
http://www.mpsaz.org/arts/online_lessons/persp/
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/Glossary.html#linear
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeonardosPerspective.html

1. During what time period did artists become interested in making two-dimensional works of art look three-dimensional?

2. What is linear perspective?

3. How did artists represent depth prior to the concept of perspective?

4. Define the following terms:
a. vanishing point
b. horizon line
c. one-point perspective
d. two point perspective
e. orthogonal lines

5. Draw the following, on 2 different sheets of paper:
a. A rectangle or cube from three different perspectives, points of view: from above the horizon line, below the horizon line, and on the horizon line.
b. Three buildings in two point perspectives.