Blog Summary on Perspective Painting

I would like to start off by saying that this was a very time-consuming project but not in a negative way. There were a lot of steps to go through and each one required a lot of time.

The first step and probably the most important step in this project was to learn perspective drawing. Everyone in the class was comfortable with one-point perspective including me because we did it last year. However, two-point perspective was new to me and it took a couple of classes for me to get accustomed with it. We sketched both perspectives on large pieces of paper, which are in my folder. In my opinion, that was a very good start for me because I touched up on some of my old skills and learned something new.

The second step in the project was a go through the PowerPoint's that Ms. Cockburn showed us later in the unit. From these PowerPoint's we were supposed to gather ideas and make thumbnail sketches.

From my thumbnail sketches, I decided that for my Perspective painting that I would choose the building: The Tempietto located in Rome. I found a very good picture on the Internet and decided to go from there:

The next step was, to transfer my thumbnail sketch onto a big piece of paper the size of my canvas.

After that was completed we were told to get some tracing paper and trace our drawings from the big paper:

During that time we had to prime our panels for painting with gesso:

We than had to transfer by pencil our drawing from the tracing paper onto the panel. For me when I traced it on, it came up very light and therefore, I went over it with pencil to darken it so it would be easier when I went to paint to see the lines:

Once the drawing was on the panel it was time to paint it! I decided to stick with acyclic paints because I used them throughout the year. The completed painting looked like this:

In conclusion I would like to say that this was a very rigorous unit, it involved a lot of different styles of art, we had to draw, stencil, paint, think, and use styles from the renascence period. Overall, I enjoyed this project and look forward to the final summative!