Your child drew a picture of his school playground on a large sheet of white paper. At the top of this page, he or she drew the school building,

while the playground equipment, including seesaws and swings, were drawn toward the bottom of the picture. There is a tree near the entrance to the school. The trunk of this tree is blocking a portion of the windows by the main doorway to the school.There is a road beginning at the bottom of the page whose parallel lines grow closer together as the road passes the school. The children that your child drew near the bottom of the page appear larger than the children playing nearer the school. These "larger" children also are drawn with more detail, while the faces of the children playing closer to the school are blurry. Describe the pictorial cues that this "artist" used to achieve depth.

What will be an ideal response?

Answer will include that your child has used height in picture plan when he or she drew the school higher in the drawing to show that the school was more distant than the playground to the viewer. Overlap or interposition was shown when the tree trunk blocked the windows showing that the tree is closer than the school door to the viewer. The parallel lines of the road growing closer depicts linear perspective, while relative size is illustrated by drawing the children larger if they are closer to the viewer.The children's faces are clear if the children are closer to the viewer and blurrier for those at a distance, which is the pictorial cue of texture gradient.