::still life perspective::

Lily has been talking about drawing still life images lately.  I have no idea were she is coming up with this stuff.  We do lots of art, but I don't every remember saying the words "still life" to her.  

She decided to built a block tower and then draw it.  She had her pillow/blanket and crayons all set up.  She even made herself a little drawing table out of blocks to work on.  

She asked me if I liked her "grand finale" on her tower.

Of course I did.

Here is her still life model.

And here is her finish product.  

We cut off the top of it and pasted it to a piece of blue construction paper.  

She drew the background trying to make it look like it was all outside.  

I tried to teach her about perspective and I got this -

"I know what perspective is, Mom.  To an ant I am giant.  To a giant I am tiny. Or it can be how you feel about something.  I learned that already."  

(From who?  She couldn't remember.)

So this isn't my craft or my idea.  Lily gets 100% billing, but I think it has lots of applications to help kids learn about art.