5-12 Mon. 4/27

Online Resources:

-The Met: Under the Wave

-The Guardian: Hokusai, The Great Wave that Swept the World

Google Images:
Hokusai

**Lesson Inspiration Step-By-Step Video Guidance:**

-Video Lesson Guidance- How to Draw The Great Wave

YouTube:

-Hokusai Cartoon

-The Great Wave Children's Book

-Better Know: The Art Assignment on The Great Wave

Steps:

Enjoy this! Explore Your Creativity! Relax! Have fun!

**Be sure to follow along with the step-by-step YouTube video inspiration and/or the written out lessons.

**And don’t forget to check out all of the Online Resources to help with inspiration!

1. Read and Research Artist.
   Look through all online source materials for project inspiration. You want to know who Hokusai was and how this image has been celebrated and utilized since its creation.

2. Turn Paper Horizontal.
   Remember, horizontal is turning it wide instead of tall. This is the “orientation” of your paper.

3. Draw a Huge Wave!
   Lightly, with a pencil, draw the details of a big wave to fill the middle/top left of the paper- the “wave fingers” (orr “splashes”), the big curve underneath. Add details like more splashes and curves to your big wave.

4. Draw a Smaller Wave!
   In front of your big wave, draw another small wave, remembering the “wave fingers” and the curves. Add details like more splashes and curves to your small wave.

5. Draw Boats and a Mountain.
   Draw a thin, long boat floating going towards the small wave AND going towards the big wave. Make sure you draw these boats going along the curve of your waves. Add a mountain in the far away distance from your waves in your background.

6. Outline.
   Outline (or trace) all of your pencil line. Carefully erase any pencil lines that you don’t want to keep.

7. Color!
   Color in your waves, boats, mountain, and sky. Take your time with adding color! Use as many blues for your waves as you can!