Often when a student is faced with a scene, there's simply so much that's appealing it's hard to choose what to focus on. This is where a viewfinder comes in useful, as it helps you focus on particular parts of the scene, enabling you to decide what will make the best composition.
Like the viewfinders on the back of digital cameras, viewfinders limit what we see, focusing attention on the smaller image within the frame. By holding the viewfinder close to our eyes, or at arms length, we can see more or less of the image: like using a telescoping lens with cameras.
7th grade students used viewfinders to look at a complicated still life. With viewfinders, they were able to concentrate on drawing a small section of the still life, and also focus how to compose it on the page. To learn more about using viewfinders in art, go to: http://donnayoung.org/art/sighting.htm
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