Japanese art projects for middle school

Let's paint a Japanese Print inspired Artwork with Watercolor Paints in this Historical Japanese Art Making Style, perfect for Middle School Art Students. In this lesson, students will use watercolor paints to create an artwork inspired by historical Japanese art piece called Beauty in Snow. This artwork was inspired by art from Japan by Japanese artist Utagawa Kunimasa (Japanese, 1773–1810) and will allow students to explore watercolor techniques.

Osage Trail Middle School ART on Instagram: “Japanese Notan is such a great way to teach BALANCE and CONTRAST 🤩🤩🤩 I have made step-by-step directions for this project and added it to…”

This dynamic pagoda art project for middle school students is a great curriculum connection to the ancient cultures of Asia!

I’ve tried an effective technique to imitate the Ming Vases, the typical Chinese vases in white porcelain with blue decorations. We begin copying the characteristic shapes of the Chinese vases from…

Seventh grade students spend lots of time studying ancient China and Japan in history class. In the art room, we celebrate these rich cultures through the creation of watercolor koi fish paintings. Combing traditional Asian art, and the Hawaiian flair of artist Sherri Reeves, students drew several koi fish across their rectangular sheet of paper. (This is large! Apx 22x11" inches) Once the have drawn their fish they added sketches of pond life and traced over the entire image in crayon…