This week in art the lesson was about a way to teach perspective. We painted the foreground, middle ground and background on separate pieces of paper and then stuck them together. When we did it we went through each stage at a time without knowing what the final product would look like until it was finished. I think it was better this way, without the teacher showing us a final product first, because this let us use our imagination and creativity rather than subconsciously trying to copy an example.

We learned a lot of techniques that I wouldn’t have thought of, like tearing up the background into strips to create a hill/mountain landscape or putting salt over the water colours to give the sky an interesting pattern.

After looking at everyones final product, they were all very different. They all had the same structure and subject matter, because we had followed the same instructions, but they all had our own unique twist. Some had used bright colours, other had more muted tones, some had made their wall very brick like, some had made it more pebble like. Again i think this was down to us not working from a picture, but instead following instructions and working from our imagination.

 

I throughly enjoyed this lesson and think it is a great way to teach perspective and depth.

 

This lesson meets the expressive arts outcome:

“I have the freedom to discover and choose ways to create images and objects using a variety of materials.” EXA 0-02a