The Great Wave off Kanagawa Coloring Page

The Great Wave off Kanagawa isn't a painting. It's a woodblock print. Katsushika Hokusai drew the design, carvers cut it into blocks of wood, and printers inked the blocks and pressed paper onto them, one colour at a time. Thousands of copies were made around 1831, which is why museums all over the world own one.

Look closely and you'll find three long boats full of rowers ducking under the wave, with Mount Fuji looking tiny in the distance. It was part of a series called Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Hokusai was about 70 when he made it, and he kept drawing into his late eighties.