Adventures In Art: Challenge 5 - Arty Architecture!

Thank you all once again for the great art work you sent in last week.

This week, as you have probably guessed we're looking at buildings!

Can you recognise this beautiful local building that Rose drew?

Rose has used 'perspective' in her picture - look how the path is wider and bigger near the bottom of the page, then gets narrower and smaller.

What is one of your favourite buildings? How would draw it and create a piece of art?

Can you recognise these London Landmarks that Year 3 drew a few years ago?

We're going to try some different things with our Arty Architecture art work this week, for our different aged Art Clubbers.

For younger members of the Art Club, have a go at this.
We're going to draw some buildings, but try and get some to go behind others.

Start with one simple line across your page.

On it draw a simple rectangle. Then put a hat on it for the roof

Draw some more houses, all with slightly different shapes.

Now begin to add a few buildings that are a little bit behind these - ask an adult to get you started.

Gradually build up more and more buildings, all shapes and sizes, behind others.

Begin to add some doors to the buildings at the front.

Then add some windows to all the other buildings.

You don't have to add as many buildings as we have.

Now colour it any way you like!

Those of you who have studied the Fire Of London, when you were in Year 2, practise drawing a Tudor house again.

Start with a smaller rectangle, then put a larger one on top.

Add two little lines just on top of this and add a triangle for your roof.

Tudor houses stayed up, with some cleverly placed wooden beams. Add some vertical beams so your house doesn't fall down.

Add some windows.

Now add some horizontal beams.

Add a window at the top and use some cross hatching for your windows.

Make your beams thicker and add any other decoration or detail.

Now start adding more and more Tudor houses, all shapes and sizes- making sure some are behind others.

Our scene is a little tooooo busy!
You might want to go for a few less!

Having practised drawing them, Year two made collage versions to go on their Fire Of London pictures.

Finally, for our older Art Clubbers - back to that word 'perspective' that we used at the beginning!

The rule is very simple:

We're going to draw a street scene, starting off with a lightly drawn horizon line - a little over half way up your page.

Find the middle of the line and from there lightly draw diagonal lines to each corner of your paper.

For a practice and to show you the direction of your lines, we've gone over one line in red, one in green and one in blue, so it is easier to explain. You don't have to do this.

Draw the side of your first house.

Now draw the front. The top line goes in the same direction (parallel) to the red line, the bottom the same direction as the blue line.

Add another side of a house to this - all straight lines.

Then add the front, remembering to follow the red line on top and the blue line on the bottom. Continue drawing houses. Remember your houses are getting smaller as they go further up your page.

Windows are tricky! The straight on sides of the houses have simple straight lined windows, but the front follow the same rules as before, except every horizontal line above the green line follows the direction of the red. While everything below, follows the blue. SO....the top of the window in the middle goes in one direction, while the bottom goes in another.

Now add your roof. Draw a triangle on top of the front of the building and then a straight line from the top along the side of it.

Add a pavement, then try the other side of the road.

Add any other details before rubbing out your guide lines.

You don't have to draw two lots of houses you could have some trees, railings, lamp posts on the other side of the road, but remember - BIGGER at the front/bottom of the page: smaller as you go up the page.