1. Project #3 1-point and 2-point linear perspective
Friday, Sept. 14, 2012

2. LINEAR PERSPECTIVE DEFINITION & EXAMPLES
A form of perspective in drawing and painting in which parallel lines are represented as converging so as to give the illusion of depth and distance.

3. In the Renaissance, painters needed to be able to translate the three-dimensional world around them onto the two-dimensional surface of a painting, called the "picture plane." The solution was "linear perspective"; the idea that converging lines meet at a single vanishing point and all shapes get smaller in all directions with increasing distance from the eye. The discovery of perspective is attributed to the architect Filippo Brunelleschi ( ), who suggested a system that explained how objects shrink in size according to their position and distance from the eye. However, the nature of Brunelleschi's system and date of its discovery remain unclear.

4. 1 point perspective handout.
These are steps to follow when drawing in 1-point perspective.
Using a blue colored pencil outline your handout when you see a BLUE line.

12. Follower of Pietro Lorenzetti
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels 1360/70
Tempera on panel

14. MONET:
Street in Ste. Adresse,
c. 1869

15. SARGENT:
A Street in Venice, 1882

16. The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci

31. These videos show how to draw a room using one point perspective:

32. This video shows how to draw using
two point perspective – 2 vanishing points.
Now let’s practice!!!