Why linear perspective?
During my student teaching assignment, my cooperative teacher suggested incorporating the use of linear perspective into a lesson for the ninth-grade Art 1 classes. The students were completing a study of the Italian Renaissance and investigating the revolutionary art innovations of that period. As I thought about ways to present a lesson on linear perspective, two goals became important: First, I wanted a perspective lesson that would avoid dependence solely on logical measuring and left-brain processing. I thought that it was important for students to use sighting techniques as described by Betty Edwards in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain in combination with a knowledge of linear perspective to depict space. I wanted students to feel comfortable and…
