1. Ink Wash Trees Elements: Value and Shape Artist: Hasegawa Tohaku
Material: India Ink
Method: Ink Wash

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

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