disco rooms!

After our blocks in a box we took our understanding of perspective and took it a step further. We made these fun disco rooms with our own disco Stew's (Simpsons reference). Students started by creating the disco room using one point perspective. Students used markers to color their rooms.

After taking care of our 7th grade requirement of studying perspective we went back to our 6th grade requirement of studying proportions via figure and portraiture. We spent several days talking about proportion and using drawing mannequins and our classmates to check proportions and practice drawing a simplified figure. For our final drawing I asked the kids to draw someone in a dancing position to go into their room. A lot of kids went disco to go with their disco rooms. We got quite a few Michal Jackson moves also:) This was a challenging project but they did a great job and were enthusiastic about the "dance/disco" aspect.




"I thought disco was popular in the 80's?!" said this student to me. Oh vey!!!

one point perspective

6-7th grade learned how to use one point perspective to draw 3:D cubes and create a "box" or room for perspective items (study of from). Students also learned how to use value to create volume with crayon, pencil or paint.

Students took these lessons and created a set of blocks that had a short word that sat inside a "box". They then got bonus points for using correct shading and value on the blocks. On the back "wall" of the box we got in a bit of our "writing" requirement by creating a texture and pattern by repeating our word again and again. They really really liked learning how to draw using perspective!






our value exercise