Studio in Fine Arts- Space

My Studio in Fine Arts Class just recently completed an assignment where they were challenged to create a scene that showed understanding of foreground, middleground and background using 3 of the following techniques:

• 1,2 or 3 point perspective
• atmospheric perspective (far away is fuzzy and light)
• size relationships (what is far is small, close is big)
• overlap
• color (close=intense contrast, far=less contrast, more darks)

These are a few of their results:

They could choose any subject matter, but I encouraged them to picture themselves as the illustrator of a story that would communicate a sense of time, place,character, mood and purpose.  They used colored pencils were encouraged to layer colors to get a strong sense of shading and value.