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 Wet on wet Dry Brush Blended
Planning and Practice Experiment with ink wash techniques: Wet on wet Dry brush Blended Create a copy of one of these trees: