Street Drawing: Exploring Vanishing Points with Masking Tape

By Sheila Ceccarelli

Building up on ideas contributed by Paula Briggs and Sarah Wright (The Drawing Machine) about how to approach teaching perspective, I led an experimental session giving teenagers the opportunity to immerse themselves into a street view and explore drawing with a vanishing point.

Ingo drawing a street view — Drawing a street view at Cambridge ArtWorks

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