1. Central Primary School Arts Day
Third Grade: When is Flat Not Flat?

2. Question: How do artists make objects painted on a flat piece of paper look real and 3-D?
Answer: They use perspective. Perspective tricks your eyes.

3. The Basic Idea of Perspective
If an object is close to you, draw it bigger.
If an object is far from you, draw it smaller.

4. Example: Perspective
Here is a road with three trees. Which tree looks biggest?

5. Example: Perspective Artists use a horizon line.
This is an imaginary line across the page where the sky and earth meet.

6. Example: Perspective
The road in this picture goes back and seems to disappear at a single point.
This imaginary point on the horizon line is called the vanishing point.

7. Example: Perspective
Objects become smaller and smaller the closer they are to the horizon line.
And they completely disappear at the vanishing point.

8. Let’s Draw a House in Perspective

9. Let’s Draw a House in Perspective

10. Perspective Chart

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You will need a piece of paper, pencil, ruler, and a couple of crayons

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