Perspective Snowmen: 3/4 View

For this week's project we talked about perspective. Our first step was to look at three different portraits by van Gogh -- one a frontal view, one a profile and the third a 3/4 view -- and talk about what makes them different.

Then we talked about snowmen. I drew your typical front view of three circles on the board and asked if we could make it more interesting. We decided to try to draw our snowmen in 3/4 view.

We started by sketching in pencil. I reinterated that it was okay to make mistakes and not to worry to much about erasing, that we would be painting on top. We also talked about how the snowman should be huge, filling up the paper, and coming off the page. Once the they were happy with their form, they traced their lines in black pastel.

Then we got out the paint as the final step in our 3/4 view snowmen.