What's Going on in the Classroom: 2-Point Perspective Cityscape

After our spectacular journey into Surrealism through the use of 1-point perspective, I wanted to give my students a taste of 2-point perspective and what is possible when you add that second vanishing point! We did a lot of step by step at the beginning of this project, helping students to understand what different shapes will 'do' when drawing in 2-point perspective. Here's how we started making a city scape:

After the foundation of the city was laid down, students were given free reign to add details as they saw fit. We have a lot of imaginative students so you better believe that the cities were fabulous and varied.

Now we're embarking on a charcoal journey. To start, students were given a day to explore and have fun with the new medium. The goal for that day was to learn the way that charcoal worked best for them. Now we're moving forward into a charcoal project that incorporates the idea of playing with two dimensional and three dimensional space on our papers. More to come on that next post!