Under the Wave, off Kanagawa after Katsushika Hokusai Toddler T-Shirt

Katsushika Hokusai lived 1760-1849 ..it is written in this book that he created works using at least 30 different names.He did a series called Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and this is the first of the series.

I was born and raised in Huntsville, Ontario and moved to Ottawa as a young adult. Married for more than 50 years now; 3 sons, 3 daughter-in-laws, 6 grandsons and 4 granddaughters! As a young girl I remember receiving a paint-by-number for Christmas one year and spent almost every free moment working at it until it was completed...and of course that was on the top of the list the following year. It wasn't until some 5 decades later that I began taking some tole painting classes at night school. My real excitement for painting began the first time I tried to paint from a photo of our two grandsons ... I was so thrilled to see it actually looked like them (well, from behind...no faces involved)...I haven't really stopped working at it...