Third Grade Making Great Waves!

This week, third graders learned about the Japanese artist named Hokusai. We learned that...

- Katsuhika Hokusai was born in 1760 in Tokyo and died in 1849

- He started as an apprentice to a printmaker when he was young but was thrown out of the workshop because instead of following the printmaker’s directions, he liked to experiment with prints on his own and try new techniques
- In his lifetime, Hokusai completed over 30,000 works of art.
- Hokusai never cleaned his studio, when the place became too dirty to work, he would move instead of clean up!
- Hokusai often painted in front of an audience and even painted hanging upside down or with the brush between his toes or his mouth!

After talking about Hokusai and his most famous print, The Great Wave, we made our own interpretation using paint and oil pastel. These came out beautiful, nice job Third Graders!