Perspective is the appearance to the eye of objects in respect to their relative distance and positions. Perspective gives our drawings a 3-D (three dimensional) appearance.  We will discuss what makes a picture look 3-D. The farther away something is, the smaller it appears and has less detail. It also appears nearer the top of the page. Imagine yourself standing on the side of a road, a car is coming toward you from a long distance away.  As the car gets nearer, it looks bigger and more colorful. Closer objects will be larger, with more detail, and closer to the bottom of the page. 

Materials:

• shape stencils
• white construction paper
• black Sharpie
• ruler (in desks)
• pencil (in desks)
• crayons or colored pencils (in desks)

Set Up:

• Each student will receive one piece of white paper and a Sharpie.
• Have each student take out a ruler, pencil, and crayons or colored pencils from their desks (if doing project in their classroom)
• pass around different shape stencils for students to share

Directions: 

l. Draw a large dot anywhere on your paper – this is your vanishing point.

2. Draw five shapes, using the stencils, on the paper.

3. Using a ruler, draw lines from the corners of the shapes to the dot.

4. Color the shape a dark shade of color.

5. Color inside the drawn lines with a lighter shade of the same color.  Add shading–darker toward the dot and lighter toward the shape.

6. Add lines or arcs to the lines—closer together at the dot and wider toward the shape.

7. Outline and shapes and lines with black marker, being careful to stay on the lines.  Use the stencil and ruler to be really neat.