Our oldest students will read and listen to parts of Machiavelli's The Prince , detailing the arts of diplomacy and trickery. Michelangelo Brueghel Upper Elementary students will work on reports on even more Renaissance artists. Perspective The Renaissance artists invented techniques for portraying depth. We will experiment with some of these in our own art. Placing objects higher up on the page, and making them smaller, both make them seem farther away.
Distant objects tend to be blue or purple.
A horizon line is placed three-quarters of the way up the page. Lines converge towards a vanishing point on the horizon. We will experiment with drawing objects such as railroad tracks and cubes in perspective. We will look through our excellent library of books showing Renaissance houses, styles, feasts, wars, churches, and apprenticeships. Children of all ages will take notes, and work with sorting pictures and paragraphs on our Basic Needs Board.