Making waves with Hokusai

Create artworks and poetry inspired by the works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai

Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit

Year 3 to Year 6 visual arts

Your students will:

• examine the works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai

• create artworks inspired by Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa

• use perspective and colour theory techniques when creating artworks

• explore with Google Art and Culture - Art Colouring Book interactive experiment

• create a Haiku poem inspired by their artwork.

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

Stage 2

• VAS2.1: Represents the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful* by choosing among aspects of subject matter.

• VAS2.4: Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciates the use of particular techniques.

Stage 3

• VAS3.1: Investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world

• VAS3.4: Communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks.

Collection of student work

• Google Forms: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the creative class link. As students submit their responses, they will be automatically collected in a Google Sheets document. You can access this document by clicking on the 'Responses' tab in the form editor. 

• Google Assignments: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.  

• Microsoft Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class Team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create. 

• Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.

• Flip: create a video conversation. Flip is a website that allows teachers to create 'grids'. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display. 

• Google Jamboard: create an interactive whiteboard that can be used for class feedback.

Further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams 

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Flip Educator Toolkit

• Get started with Google Jamboard