What Ground????

2nd Graders are learning about foreground, middle ground, and backgrounds in artworks.  We talked about what happens as things get farther away in a painting (smaller and less detail) and as things get closer to you they get larger and increase in detail.  

We are in the first stages of our 3-dimensional paper cities.  This week students worked on creating buildings out of paper in the background and middle ground of their pictures.  You will notice in the pictures below that the houses in the background are smaller and contain close to no detail.  The houses in the middle ground are slightly larger and have a little bit of detail.  Next week, we have some amazing surprises that are going to make the pictures "pop" literally!!  Stay tuned!!!!  They are going to be AMAZING!

Quiz your kids:

-What do you call the part of the picture that is farthest away from you?

-What is the part of the picture closest to you called?

-What happens to objects that are farthest away from you?  And what happens to the objects as they get closer to you?