As a part of our study of Japanese culture and history, we learned about artist Hokusai and dove in to his famous piece, "The Great Wave at Kanawaga"
With watercolor and pencil, the students created their own version of "The Great Wave." We especially tried to emulate the detail of the curvy lines in the white caps of the wave, as well as the white spots of ocean spray.
Hokusai created this piece between the years 1830 and 1833. It was a part of a series of 46 studies of Mt. Fuji, which you can see in the background. Imagine painting 46 pieces of art of the same scene in a short period of time!
"At the age of five years I had the habit of sketching things. At the age of fifty I had produced a large number of pictures, but for all that, none of them had any merit until the age of seventy. At seventy-three finally I learned something about the true nature of things, birds, animals, insects, fish, the grasses and the trees. So at the age of eighty years I will have made some progress, at ninety I will have penetrated the deepest significance of things, at a hundred I will make real wonders and at a hundred and ten, every point, every line, will have a life of its own" - Hokusai
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