week 5: perspectival abstraction

featured image: Sol Lewit

Key Words: perspective, geometric, scale, horizon, foreground, middleground, background, form, shape

Tools needed: sketchbook, drawing pencils: F, 2B, 4B, kneaded eraser, ruler

Key concepts:

1. Horizon Line
2. Vanishing point
3. Orthogonal Lines (also known as convergence or vanishing lines)
4. Transverse Lines: horizontal or vertical lines that are either parallel or perpendicular to the horizon line. They form rectangles or right angles along the grid

Demo of one point perspective on whiteboard – students get handout and follow along

 

 

 

Demo two point perspective – students get handout and follow along

What about MC Escher, what perspective is he using?

Check out artist Rosanna Bowman’s geometric architectural renderings.