One and Two Point Perspective
Dothan High School Christopher D. Payne
Art Survey
I. Preparing the Learner
The teacher will:
a. Make an assessment of students prior knowledge of subject matter by
asking the students draw a cube and a house. Then have the students
draw a row of trees so the trees overlap and seem to go back in space.
b. Introduce the lesson by having the students explain what they have
drawn.
II. Learner Objectives
The student will:
a. Be able to create a work of art using one and two point perspective.
b. Be able to find the vanishing point in any perspective drawing.
c. Be able to name the origin of perspective drawings.
d. Be able to name master artists who were famous for perspective
drawings.
e. Be able to discuss the differences between one and two point perspective
artworks.
f. Be able to explain how perspective adds depth to an artwork.
III. Teaching the Learner
The teacher will:
a. Ask the students to turn to page 164 in the text book.
b. Ask the students to examine the picture of the three trees standing side
by side. The teacher will then ask which one is closer.
c. Ask the students to look at the next picture where the trees get smaller as
they go back in the distance.
d. Explain the concept of perspective in space.
e. Demonstrate on the board how to draw in one point perspective.
f. Draw the horizon line and vanishing point.
g. Demonstrate how to draw a house, a road, and trees in one point
perspective.
h. Demonstrate how to draw in two point perspective.
i. Display “The Last Supper” and “The Annunciation” by Leonardo da
Vinci, “The School of Athens” by Raphael, and “The Trinity” by
Masaccio as one point perspective pictures.
j. Display photographs of New York City buildings and show how they are
in two point perspective from the viewers standpoint.
k. Display false perspective artworks called optical illusions. This artwork
show figures that are the same size and the background in perspective.
IV. Learner Performance
The student will:
a. Discuss how objects in the distance get smaller in perspective drawings.
b. Copy the teachers drawings from the board on how to create a one point
and two point perspective picture.
c. Create their own city in one point perspective.
d. Create their own city in two point perspective.
e. Create a three dimensional diorama in two point perspective from page
95 in the new textbook.
f. The students will create a false perspective artworks by drawing figures
the same size but making the background in perspective.
V. Concluding the Lesson
The teacher will:
a. Review the two types of perspective.
b. Review how important perspective is in artwork.
c. Review Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Masaccio and their artworks.
d. Review optical illusions and how it has transformed perspective.
VI. Websites
ART STUDIO CHALKBOARD
Linear Perspective
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OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
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VII. Terminology
Perspective – Techniques for creating a look of depth on a two-dimensional
surface.
Vanishing Point – In a perspective drawing, one or more points on the horizon
where parallel lines that go back in space seem to meet.
Horizon Line – A level line where water or land seem to end and the sky begins.
It is usually on the eye level of the observer.
Converging Lines – Actual or implied lines that seem to point toward a central
place in space.
