Today was the final day of our school's Art Exhibition. We really loved looking at all of the art the other classes had done but we were extremely proud of our own.
This year we used paint to recreate a very famous piece called "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". It isn't a painting but a woodblock print created by the famous Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, around 1830. The woodblock print shows an enormous wave threatening the shores of Kanagawa with the very famous Mount Fuji in the background.
We started by painting our background. We blended white and black to our background colour to create different shades. They we created the big wave in the mid ground. We created a wave effect by blending our blue with black and white to give our waves some stripes then we added the white foam of the wave. We continued this process until we had made it down to the foreground with layers of waves.
Some of us found painting quite challenging but we enjoyed learning about colours, blending and painting the shapes and images we were observing.
This year we used paint to recreate a very famous piece called "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". It isn't a painting but a woodblock print created by the famous Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, around 1830. The woodblock print shows an enormous wave threatening the shores of Kanagawa with the very famous Mount Fuji in the background.
We started by painting our background. We blended white and black to our background colour to create different shades. They we created the big wave in the mid ground. We created a wave effect by blending our blue with black and white to give our waves some stripes then we added the white foam of the wave. We continued this process until we had made it down to the foreground with layers of waves.
Some of us found painting quite challenging but we enjoyed learning about colours, blending and painting the shapes and images we were observing.
I thought your art was amazing Room 11. It takes a lot of skill to paint well. I enjoyed standing back to look at the effect of the waves. I am extremely happy that I will get to keep a piece in my BMPS home collection, as a reminder of the 'blue period.'
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