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Art and design
Creating 3D: Techniques to create the illusion of depth in 2D media
Creating 3D is a series of activities exploring techniques artists use to create the illusion of three dimensional depth on a flat page:
Overlap
Relative Size
One Point Perspective
Shade and Shadow
Each resource can be used as a standalone activity within a lesson, or combined to form a sequence in order to build a progression of techniques.
The final activity challenges pupils to draw a room using one-point perspective and the other techniques they have learned.
These resources were originally produced for use in school workshops for the Thinking 3D exhibition t the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. The exhibition explored the influence of Leonardo da Vinci and his contemporaries on how people thought about and represented three dimensions in art, architecture, anatomy, astronomy and geometry. We have now made them available online for teachers to use in school.