Transitional Primary students pretended to travel across the globe to Japan to examine artist and print maker Hokusai famous for his artwork titled The Great Wave off Kanagawa. We discussed the reoccurring theme of NATURE in his art and discussed how the important role fish played in Japanese culture. Students learned about the tradition of Japanese fish printing called GYOTAKU and discussed how fisherman used this style of artmaking to keep track of the fish they caught. We tried our own Gyotaku's, by printing on rubber fish. Next, we learned how a seascape is a view of the sea and created our own, with oil pastel resist with watercolor. Finally, our best prints were cut out and creatively incorporated into our seascapes.
The Great Wave Off of Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai 1830-1833
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