Friday 11 September 2015

Grade 9 Art - Day 5

Art and Perspective!!


YOUR EYE LEVEL IS ON THE HORIZON

In art, a horizon line is a horizontal line (usually invisible in real life) sometimes referred to as eye level, that divides your line of vision when you look straight ahead. Objects below this line are below your eye level, and objects above it are above your eye level. Remember, your eye level and the horizon line, are one and the same. Look straight ahead (rather than up or down), and the horizon line is directly in front of you. Wherever you go, from the top of the highest mountain, to the lowest valley, your eye level always stays with you. The easiest way to identify the location of the horizon line in an actual scene is to visually mark it with your eye level. Try to find the horizon line in this example:





In the example below, notice how every line that travels away from your view travels to the view point (VP). See how perspective shapes the buildings, or how the buildings form perspective.


Curricular Connection: What considerations, including what you have just learned about perspective, might lead you to modify your original idea or plan when you are in the process of developing your art work?
Task - One Point Perspective Drawing

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