ART PROGRAM

JAPANESE ART

STAGE 2
OUTCOMES VAS2.3
VAS2.4
VAS3.1
INDICATORS - focuses on details of subject matter and areas of
interest
- seeks to investigate traditions in art
- emphasises or exaggerates certain qualities of subject
matter by focusing on details
- expresses opinions about how well subject matter is
represented and appreciates the skills involved.
SUBJECT JAPANESE ART
MATTER
FORMS Drawing, Printing, Watercolours, Acrylic painting, Collage
RESOURCES ARTIST: Hokusai, Japanese Border Designs, Kimonos
MATERIALS: paper, oil pastel, watercolour and acrylic paint,
polytrays, rollers, biros, shading proforma, graphite pencils,
artline pens, blue bremex paper, scissors, glue sticks, pieces of
maps

APPRECIATION - talks about the meaning of artworks in terms of how the

subject matter realistically represents things in the world
- sees themselves as artists
PERSPECTIVES Multiculturalism
LINKS Science and Technology, Literacy, Maths
ASSESSMENT Students were able to:
- draw likenesses from observation
- identify qualities of objects
- see themselves as artists
LEARNING EXPERIENCES

STAGE 2
SUBJECT MATTER: JAPANESE
ART
1. HOKUSAI – THE GREAT WAVE DURATION: Three weeks
Students will-
- observe the work of the artist Hokusai
- extend and repeat a photocopied section of Hokusai’s ‘The Great
Wave’ using black oil pastel on large artpaper
- continue detail from information on the photocopy across the whole
page
- make informed choices from the original artwork on further
inclusions eg. a second boat
- use watercolour paint to continue the colours used in the original
- identify the yellow sky colour and the white splash of the wave
- discuss Japanese text symbols for the words ‘peace’, ‘happiness’,
‘long life’ and practise drawing these symbols
- choose one symbol to draw onto a 10cm square polytray with a biro
and give it a border
- use a roller to apply red acrylic paint to the polytray and print it onto
a corner of the wave artwork

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

2. GEISHA JIGSAW DURATION: One week

Students will-
- be given a cut up section of an actual woodblock print of a Japanese
geisha (the print is cut up into equal sections for each class member)
- use a large sheet of artpaper in proportion of shape to the small piece
and use a black oil pastel to enlarge their section onto the artpaper
- colour the work in the same way as their section- this may involve
blending oil pastel colours
- write on the back of their artwork the corresponding number that is on
their section
- as a class, put the enlarged artwork back together to form an enlarged
work of the original
Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment
 3. BORDER PRINTS DURATION: Three weeks
Students will-
- observe and discuss the myriad amount and variation of Japanese
border prints
- use artline pen on small artpaper to redraw one of the designs
- use crosshatching as a means of shading to fill in the black areas
- discuss negative and positive shapes
- use blue bremex paper to collage another border design by cutting
either the negative or the positive shapes from the blue and gluing
them onto white artpaper

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

4. LANDSCAPE DURATION: Three weeks

Students will-
- look at series of colour swatches and put them into lines of gradating
tones
- identify light and dark tones and the levels in between
- go into the bush and in pairs collect 10 pieces of an item from the
natural environment eg. rocks, leaves, twigs.
- lay these items out in a tonal or colour gradation
- observe each others work
- begin an artwork that has 4 parts by using watercolours to record in
small swatches the colours they have found
- use artline pen to do a linear observation drawing of a leaf taken from
the bush outside
- glue a small piece of a road map on artpaper and extend and repeat all
the lines and details in artline pen
- choose 4 colours already in the map to paint shapes made by the
extended lines
- use one of the colours 4 times, one colour 3 times, one 2 times and
the last colour just once
- use a cardboard frame approx10cm sq. to find 2 interesting areas ,
draw around those areas and cut them out
- repeat the same process with the leaf drawing and the frame
- choose a piece of coloured bremex in one of the colours already used
and glue these three squares down into 3 of the 4 quadrants
- glue 9 of the trimmed colour swatches into the fourth quadrant

Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment