Van Gogh Bedroom Perspective 5 th Grade February Art Project West Mercer Elementary Art Enrichment Program

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Lesson Overview Lesson: Perspective Time: 60 minutes Volunteers: 3 Medium: oil pastels Curriculum connection: geometry, perspective Any perspective representation of a scene that includes parallel lines has one or more vanishing points in a perspective drawing. A one-point perspective drawing means that the drawing has a single vanishing point, usually (though not necessarily) directly opposite the viewer's eye and usually (though not necessarily) on the horizon line. All lines parallel with the viewer's line of sight recede to the horizon towards this vanishing point. This is the standard "receding railroad tracks" phenomenon. Any number of vanishing points are possible in a drawing, one for each set of parallel lines that are at an angle relative to the plane of the drawing. vanishing points

Van Gogh Perspective Materials half sheet of scratch paper per student Copy of vanishing point room practice paper white drawing paper rulers Oil pastels

Display Once the project is finished, student work should be mounted on colored paper and displayed either in the classroom or in the designated area in the hallway. If there are some who have not finished, please check with the teacher on how they would like to proceed. Do not assume that it ok to continue the project after the allotted time.

What is perspective?

Useful Vocabulary Horizon Line: the horizontal line where the sky meets the earth. Vanishing Point: the point on the horizon where images disappear. Foreground: images that appear to be nearest to the viewer. Background: images that appear to be further away from the viewer. Mid-ground: the point in the picture that separates foreground from background.

Background on Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh's three versions of this composition are the only record he made of the interior of the Yellow House, where he lived while he was in Arles in the south of France. The house embodied the artist's dream of a "Studio of the South," a community of like- minded artists working in harmony to create art for the future. The first version of The Bedroom (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) was one of the paintings Van Gogh made to decorate the house in anticipation of the arrival of his first guest, Paul Gauguin. "It's just simply my bedroom," he wrote, "only here color is to do everything... to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, looking at the picture ought to rest the brain, or rather the imagination." Gauguin's stay at the Yellow House would be fraught with tension: after two months, Van Gogh's self-mutilation and Gauguin's flight back to Paris ended the Studio of the South. Van Gogh made this second version of The Bedroom about a year after the first, while he was living at an asylum in Saint-Rémy.

Today’s Project Perspective Drawing based on Van Gogh’s bedroom

Step 1 – Practice vanishing point Half sheet of scratch paper practice drawing a vanishing point (remember the lesson from 4 th grade?)

Perspective Tutorial Videos How to draw a cube in one point perspective YA_KNE YA_KNE One Point perspective- stacking, holes and angles 55hm0 55hm0 How to draw equal spaces in 1 point perspective TgfyFo TgfyFo Drawing Perspective Circles and Curves LAKhYU LAKhYU

City Perspective All shapes are based on the same vanishing point

Van Gogh’s Bedroom Perspective This is what we are going to draw today!

Video on how to draw a room in 1 point perspective dLy3Nk dLy3Nk 2:28 playing time

Step 3 – Perspective Room Use this practice sheet to draw out the basic features of a room (The rectangle = back wall) Window Bed Table Picture on the wall

Step 4 – Van Gogh’s room On the final paper in pencil Draw a rectangle for the back wall Put in a vanishing point dot in the center of the wall Look at Van Gogh’s bedroom Draw in the features of the room using the vanishing point (and lines) – Bed – Window – Table – Chairs – Paintings on the wall – Floor boards You can use a ruler to help with your lines to the vanishing point

Step 5 – Oil Pastels Go over your pencil with oil pastels