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Hokusai - 36 Views of Mt. Fuji
Hokusai - 36 Views of Mt. Fuji
Grade 3 Planning your Hokusai Inpired Drawing.mp4Learn about Katsushika Hokusai's series: 36 views of Mt. Fuji
in the Google Slide presentation below.
Katsushika Hokusai - 36 Views of Mt. Fuji
Goten-yama hill, Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō
Lake Suwa in Shinano Province
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a master landscape painter and printmaker from Japan. Many of his prints were used in his lifetime to market the beauty of Japan to increase tourism and immigration to Japan. He is most famous for his series of paintings “36 views of Mt. Fuji” Over his lifetime, Hokusai created over 150 paintings of Mt. Fuji, a pair of active volcanoes not far from Tokyo, Japan.
Mount Fuji has traditionally been linked with eternal life. This belief can be traced to the The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, where a goddess deposits the elixir of life on the peak of Mt. Fuji. For generations , Mt. Fuji was seen as the source of the secret of immortality, a tradition that was at the heart of Hokusai's own obsession with the volcano.
Storm Below Mt. Fuji
Japanese Cranes and Mt. Fuji
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.
Hokusai was one of the most famous artists of the Ukiyo-e Art Movement in Japan.
Literally meaning “Pictures of the Floating World," Ukiyo-e refers to a style of Japanese woodblock print and painting from the Edo period depicting famous theater actors, beautiful courtesans, city life, travel in romantic landscapes.
In his landscapes featuring Mt. Fuji, sometimes the volcano is the subject, or focus of the painting and is dominant in the foreground. Sometimes Mt. Fuji is a part of the setting of the painting and is placed in the middle ground. Sometimes Hokusai painted Mt. Fuji so small and far in the background that you have to hunt with your eyes to see it.
The next six slides feature each of the original 36 Views of Mt. Fuji. Look for Mt. Fuji in the paintings and prints. Read the titles of each work. Note the location of the volcano (foreground, middleground, and background) and determine if Mt. Fuji is the subject or just part of the setting.
Plan your composition
Plan your composition
Do you want the Washington, Monument in the foreground, middleground, or background of your picture?
What will be in the foreground, middle ground and background of your picture?
Creating your Washington Monument Plan and Sketch
Creating your Washington Monument Plan and Sketch
Using pencil and paper plan your
Washington Monument Scene. Upload your plan and sketch to Seesaw.
Finished Plan and Sketch
Finished Plan and Sketch
Show me your tools!
Show me your tools!
Gather all of the art-making materials you have at home.
Post a photo of them to Seesaw!
Post Photo of your work in progress and reflection to Seesaw
Post Photo of your work in progress and reflection to Seesaw
Reflection Questions
Reflection Questions
What kind of artwork did you create today?
Which artist inspired your artwork?
What details did you include in your artwork?
What did you discover while creating your artwork?
What do you think you will add to finish this assignment?
Day 2: Drawing your final scene
Day 2: Drawing your final scene
Practice the technique of Creating Value with lines. You will need a black pen or a marker
Using a pencil and a pen, draw your Washington Monument Scene or a place you'd really like to visit. No color needed today
Do your best work.
Stop working after 30 minutes
Upload your work in progress to Seesaw
Creating Value with Lines.mp4Creating Value with lines
Creating Value with lines
Please Click and watch the video for directions
Creating Value with lines
Creating Value with lines
Using a blank piece of paper, recreate this worksheet. Take a. photo and upload it to Seesaw
Drawing your final Hokusai.mp4Please watch the video for directions
Making your final
Making your final
Recreate your Washington Monument Drawing, or another place that you would like to visit. Use line values to create light and dark areas of your picture.
Day 3: Adding Color if you can,
Day 3: Adding Color if you can,
or free-drawing
or free-drawing
Adding Color to your Hokusai drawing.mp4Finish adding value with lines to your Washington Monument drawing or a drawing of a place you would like to visit.
Add color to your drawing with watercolor, markers, or colored pencils.
Create a free-drawing if you do not have access to coloring materials.
Upload your finished work to Seesaw
Reflect: tell me all about your Hokusai inspired drawing in Seesaw
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