2. (Katsushika Hokusai, 1830)
The most famous Japanese painter and print maker of all time.
Born in 1760 in what is now Tokyo, formally known as Edo.
Hokusai learnt to draw as a child and practiced every day of his life.
Hokusai was tireless, multitalented, and brilliant.
Hokusai illustrated more than 120 works!
(de Goncourt, 2012; Massenot & Pilorget, 2010)
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
4. Woodcut
This is how Hokusai’s picture was made:
• The picture is first cut into a piece of wood
• It is then covered with ink and printed or pressed, onto a
piece of paper
• Numerous prints could be made out of a single block and was
one of the reasons why so many prints by Hokusai were
available in the 1800s
• There were three different workers needed to produce
woodcut prints. A draftsman (eshi), block-cutter (horishi), and a
printer (surishi)
• This particular picture was part of a series called ‘Thirty-Six
Views of Mount Fuji’.
5. • Each landscape image shows Japan’s holy
mountain, Mount Fuji, from a different angle
and a different time of year
• In this woodcut, the mountain almost
disappears behind the giant wave – a
symbol of the forces of nature that threaten
to swallow up the boats and fisherman
(Katsushika Hokusai, 1830)
6. Warm
Colours
Cool
Colours
(Katsushika Hokusai, 1830)
Thinking about colour:
• What colour has Hokusai used the most?
Why do you think this is?
• What colour could you use to make the
picture have more power and energy?
• What colour has Hokusai used to represent
power and control?
• What do you think the meaning of this
picture is? What is the story being told?
Colour Meaning:
Red- Power, rage, thrill, charm, heat, romance,
energy, fire.
Orange- Happiness, heat, appetite, warning.
Yellow- Laughter, light, sunshine, caution,
thought, truth, warm.
Green- Luck, nature, relaxation, comfort, calm,
harmony.
Blue- Power, control, balance, peace, fresh,
authority.
Purple- Dream, wealth, beauty, fantasy.
White- clean, pure, silent, light, cold.
Brown- Durable, secure, reliable, steady,
supportive.
7. Our local landscape
Mount Warning
(Mount Warning summit walk, 1999).
(Mount Warning Sunset, n.d.).
(Mount Warning and the cauldron of life, 2013).
(Mount Warning NSW, n.d.).
(Sunlover holidays, n.d.).
(Daley’s fruit, n.d.).
8. Facts about Mount Warning:
• It is a volcanic remnant once used by mariners as a landmark
to warn them of offshore reefs
• The local Bundjalung Aboriginal people know the mountain as
Wollumbin, meaning Cloud Catcher.
(destination NSW, n.d., para 2)
• What do you know about Mount Warning?
• From what angles have you seen Mount Warning? Perhaps
you were fishing in the tweed river? visiting the town of Uki or
Mullumbimby? Were you driving along the motorway?
9. LET US CREATE – ‘Three
views of Mount Warning’.
Drawing – Water colours – Natural materials collage
10. Drawing – Black fine tip markers
Set up:
• Give yourself enough room and space to feel
comfortable to draw your first view of Mount
Warning.
• Set up your drawing experience outside to put
yourself in the raw elements of nature and to draw
upon these elements in your drawings.
• Put up a picture of ‘The Great wave’ and a few
of Mount Warning.
11. Invitation to draw:
• Use your marker to create lines that represent
emotion and feeling: bold, angry, sharp, aggressive,
thick, fine, and gentle.
• Investigate, inquire, and discuss your reasons for
your use of lines with your teacher and peers.
• Remember to use your pincer grip to hold the fine
tip marker.
• Communicate your ideas of nature and the local
landscape through your drawings.
• Use Hokusai’s picture and pictures of Mount Warning
for inspiration.
12. Clean up:
• Write your name on your drawing, you may even like to sign it.
• Please put your markers back into the glass jar ready for the next person to draw.
• Remember to put the lids on tightly, so the markers do not dry out.
• If you got out pictures and/or the book by Veronique Massenot & Bruno Pilorget
please stack them carefully either on the creative thinking cupboard or book shelf.
13. Water Colours
Set up:
• Place table cloth down onto table.
• Carefully fill six glass bowls half way with water and
add half a tea spoon of powder paint to each bowl.
• Choose one colour for each bowl.
• Fill one glass cup with water. One cup for each
person.
• Lay down two pieces of paper towel folded in half.
• Place glass jar of paint brushes on the table and
collect cotton tips and a sponge.
• Put up pictures of ‘The Great Wave’ and Mount
Warning.
14. Invitation to colour:
• Go back to the colour wheel and the colour meanings. Ask
yourself, what will be the meaning behind your second view of
Mount Warning? Will it be a clam and inviting picture or
perhaps one with power and rage?
• Draw upon Hokusai’s picture and the vast landscape of Mount
Warning for inspiration.
• Remember to use the water and paper towel to wash and dry
the brushes as you go. This keeps the colours fresh!
• Use the different sized brushes to represent the use
of lines, as you did in your first view of Mount Warning
• How have you made your paint come to life with
the use of colour?
• What would happen to the story of your painting if
you used a different colours?
15. Clean up:
• Write your name on your painting, you may even like to sign it.
• Once you have finished your painting, empty out your paints into the sink and
dry the bowls with paper towel.
• Stack the bowls and put onto the creative thinking cupboard.
• Wash and dry all paint brushes and sponge, put back into the glass jar along
with the unused cotton tips and place onto the creative thinking cupboard.
• Once all the paint has soaked into your paper hang your painting up to dry.
16. Collage With Natural Materials
Set up:
• To set up your three-dimensional art exploration and third piece to your ‘Three
views of Mount Warning’ collect the shells, feathers, leaves, and pinecones of the
creative thinking cupboard.
• Place your natural materials onto the glass plate and go out into the garden with
a friend to find your own natural materials.
• Make sure you have separated the materials into categories to make it easier to
choose from.
17. • Place a mirror in the centre of the table. This will
accentuate your three-dimensional representation
of Mount Warning.
• Choose a few different brushes to glue your
materials on, some may need a big brush with lots
of glue and some may need a small delicate
brush.
• Pour glue into a glass bowl. Only put in as much
as you think you may need.
• Again this exploration will take place outside to
allow you to draw inspiration from raw elements of
nature.
• Place a picture of ‘The Great Wave’ and Mount
Warning to also draw inspiration from.
18. Invitation to create a three-dimensional collage
• What shapes can you see when you
look at Mount Warning? How could you
represent this with your collage?
• When you look into the mirror at your
collage what is it that you can see?
• Why did you pick the materials you have out of the garden and how are you going
to use them?
• What colours are represented in your collage and why?
• How is this representation of Mount Warning different to your other two art pieces?
• What elements of nature have you draw inspiration from to represent Mount
Warning as a three-dimensional art piece?
• Make sure to wipe off the excess glue off your brush as you go.
19. Clean up:
• Once you have completed your collage, place all
unused materials back into their glass jars.
• Place these jars back onto the creative thinking
cupboard.
• Your collage will need to take some time to dry, so
place it on top of the cupboard till tomorrow.
• Wash up any brushes you used and the glue bowl
in the sink and then dry up with paper towel.
• The pictures you have used for inspiration can now
be taken down and placed onto the book shelf.
20. Documentation
Your ‘Three views of Mount Warning’ will be displayed for
one week in the school library.
Your families will be invited to come see the art exhibition
on Monday the 3rd February at 3pm.
To get your three pieces of art ready for the exhibition,
place all pieces onto a large piece of cardboard using
tape or blue’tac.
This exhibition will showcase your three wonderful art
pieces, demonstrating your art skills and techniques, just
like a famous artist!
What can we tell our families in preparation for the art
exhibition? Perhaps some facts about Hokusai? Or use of
colour we used and the emotions we have represented?
21. Follow up:
How can we build upon our ‘three views of
Mount Warning’?
Most artist name their art works and
accompany it with a sentence about the art
work.
Let us revisit our three art pieces and name
our collection.
Then, write a short story or sentence to tell
your audience about your ‘three views of
Mount Warning. Use the book by Massenot
& Pilorget for inspiration to write your own
interpretation about your art pieces.
22. To end…
Now that you have used line, colour and shape to
create three pieces of art, what can you tell me
about Hokusai’s art piece ‘The Great Wave’?
How has the raw elements of nature been
represented in his art work?
How has Mount Fuji been
represented in this woodcut
print?
(Katsushika Hokusai, 1830)
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