Ms. Penny joined our class today to talk about a famous Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai. Hokusai loved to draw when he was child and as a teenager loved to make woodcut engravings. The children learned today that he was famous for his block printings. He made his art by carving a picture onto wooden blocks, rolling them with ink and pressing them onto paper. He would use one block for each color. His most famous print was The Great Wave Off Kanagawa. The children followed in Hokusai’s footsteps today and tried their hand at block printing. They made their own carvings, rolled them with paint, and printed a picture that will be presented at our Art Show on November 13th. Here’s a sneak peak…
Block Printing
Preparing our Block for a New Color
The Great Wave by Hokusai
