the big wave updated with surfers and glitter

what's better than a project with glitter?

we started looking at 

the Great Wave 

by Hokusai

and 

the Sea off Satta 

by Hiroshige

 and we gave our big wave
our own mixed media touches

by painting the basic wave, bay and mountains,
then adding stamps for texture

and lots of bubbling sea foam 

with sponges and pencil erasers

and trees and crows and

surfers

and boats

and windsurfers

and foamy bays

and fish

and did I mention glitter?

Cowabunga dude!
Warning - these took several classes to complete
and I heard several aughs
as it turned into the never ending wave...
I thought I was being so clever 
by letting them make surfers and boats and fish and...
well by letting each one put his/her own mark on the big wave.
I thought they would love it,
but some lost interest...
Oh well you never know right?
I hope they learned perseverance and patience - 
two important 'p' words.