![]() This drawing is broken up into three sections: White liquid tempera paint (watered down just a bit). ![]() Black oil pastel, pencils or your choice of mediums.I wish I added this musical element into my art lessons as it would have been interesting to see what the kids thought. The music and the art was a bit of a mis-match to me as DeBussy’s music is so ethereal and The Great Wave is so powerful. He happens to be my favorite composer so as I was creating this lesson, I listened to DeBussy. In fact, as stated in Massenot’s book, Hokusai was inside by French composer, Claude Debussy. My goal was to introduce a piece of art that told a story. In the end, I wanted this project to inject color theory and personality. It wasn’t until I picked up Massenot’s picture book that lead me down a rabbit hole of Japanese art and wood cuttings. I was hesitant to create an art lesson inspired by Hokusai’s The Great Wave. As a girl who loves Matisse and Van Gogh, Hokusai’s colors are rather bland and subdued. Inspired by the book “The Great Wave: A Children’s Book Inspired by Hokusai” by Véronique Massenot and Bruno Pilorget and the painting The Great Wave off Kanazawa by Katsushika Hokusai, my fourth grade kids created the most beautiful paintings. ![]()
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