Ukiyo-e Geisha 6th grade

6th grade students are studying Japanese culture around this time in the school year, so I wanted to incorporate some Ukiyo-e artworks.  I found this lesson on the "Incredible Art Department" website.  Link is here.  They have a ton of art lessons to choose from and I really liked this one in particular because we drew the Geisha upside down, then painted with watercolors and added some sharpie for detail.  It was a huge success and students really liked it!  

I also showed the video about Ukiyo-e art from Goodbye Art Academy.  Link is here.

I played Japanese music on Pandora while we worked on the Geisha paintings.  It was awesome.  Took about a week, answered some questions on Google Classroom pertaining to Anchor Standards and we were good to go!

This week, we are looking at Printmaking and Haiku's, still keeping with the Ukiyo-e and floating world theme.  Those pictures will be up shortly.  

And!!!  This is perfect timing for our Literacy Night!  Students will get to display their Geisha paintings, their prints and their Haiku!  More pictures to come, but here are the Geisha's.