Ink Wash Trees

Elements: Value and Shape Artist: Hasegawa Tohaku

Material: India Ink Method: Ink Wash

Elements of Art: Value and Shape

• Value: The darkness or lightness of something

• Shape: a flat area with height and width

Elements of Art: a group of components or ingredients used to create, describe and analyze a work of art.

Artist Inspiration: Hasegawa Tohaku

• Japanese painter• Late 1500s/ 16th century• Part of Expressionism art movement: not about a

perfect reproduction of the subject, about capturing the subject’s mood, spirit or expression.

Material & Method: India Ink & Ink Wash• India Ink: black ink used for writing and printing in the

past. Now used more for drawing and painting, made of soot and water.

• Ink Wash: East Asian type of painting, developed from using india ink for calligraphy

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Planning and Practice• Experiment with ink wash techniques:

– Wet on wet– Dry brush– Blended

Create a copy of one of these trees: