Perspective Games
1. Practice showing the illusion of depth in drawing using vanishing point, overlapping,
size/placement rules.
2. Create a 3D-like composition showing distance with the theme of GAMES.
3. Use marks (lines, dots, shapes) to fill in and add color + value.
Featured Artists
Roy Lichtenstein – Created popular, everyday images using a comic book color scheme and
style. http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/
Vincent Van Gogh – Used patterned brushstrokes and bold colors to show expressive
qualities and energy of everyday objects and scenes. http://www.vggallery.com/
Lichtenstein Van Gogh
Literacy Connections
We read and analyzed this poem and used it as an inspiration in making our perspective
compositions “real and personal”.
VANISHING POINT by Lawrence Raab
You're walking down a road
which someone has drawn to illustrate
the idea of perspective, and you are there
to provide a sense of scale.
See how the road narrows in the distance,
becoming a point at which
everything connects, or flies apart.
That's where you're headed.
The rest of the world is a blank page
of open space. Did you really think
you were just out for an aimless stroll?
And those mountains on the horizon:
the longer you look, the more forbidding
they become, bleak and self-important,
like symbols. But of what?
The future, perhaps. Destiny. Or the opposite.
The perpetual present, the foolishness of purpose.
At evening they recede into the sky
as if they had always been the sky.
Is it a relief to know you'll never reach them?
Is there any comfort in believing
you're needed where you are?
