Art: drawing in perspective

This afternoon we learned a new art technique using straight lines. If you look at the drawings on these two boards, you will see that every straight line follows one of these three rules:

• Horizontal - that means EXACTLY level, not sloping


• Vertical - that means EXACTLY up and down, not sloping


• Towards the vanishing point (the dot in the middle of the picture)

If you draw a line that does not obey any of those rules, your picture does not look right.

This is a picture of a swimming pool, drawn using the same rules. To make the walls of the pool look like walls, I used vertical lines. To make the floor look flat I used horizontal lines. I also used horizontal lines to make the path around the edge of the pool look flat. Anyone can do perspective drawing if they follow the rules carefully.