Sumi-e Painting

Explore four different styles of Chinese brush painting as you and your class create a ceramic tile. Outlined are the instructions needed to paint a crane onto a prepared ceramic tile. Brush strokes, paint loading techniques, and helpful...

Learners create wall hangings or scrolls in the Asian style known as Sumi-e in this cross-curricular lesson intended for use in the Language Arts, Social Studies, Humanties, or Art classroom.

Students explore prospective content for art, then select and use appropriate subjects, symbols, and ideas to make art meaningful in this lesson suited for upper-elementary and middle level classrooms.

Seventh graders explore a style of painting called Sumi-e. This is the creation of a painting using black ink. This type of painting emphasizes an economy of brush strokes.

Seventh graders examine and discuss examples of Asian brush painting. They create a Korean brush painting, reproducing the same floral image as the instructor and writing the Korean word for flower on the painting.

Students view and discuss the work of Trudy Kraft and then create a batik project based on her ideas of pattern and depth of overlapping color in a transparent medium.