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...

Students create original Haiku poetry and paint images that depict the emotions of each poem in this high school Language Arts activity adaptable for other curriculums including Art and Social Studies.

Students explore China and analyze Chinese Ink Painting as well as incorporating poetry into artwork. With the theme of "Peace" as their foundation, in groups they practice painting bamboo with an original Quatrain poem.

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.

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

Imagine stepping into museums across the world right from the comfort of your own classroom, and analyzing artwork in greater detail than you ever thought possible. Google Art Project has made this possible! Amit Sood briefly introduces...

High schoolers develop reading comprehension skills needed to illustrate someone else's description without looking at the image and study and experiment with ancient Japanese ink painting techniques in order to illustrate these...

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.

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.

High schoolers 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.