In studying the "Victorians", Year 6 have been inspired by the work of L.S. Lowry. Here are some of their work in pastels of some of his famous paintings.

"If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!"

Some children worked in pairs, others worked on their own.

In his early years Lowry lived in the leafy Manchester suburb of Victoria Park. Then lack of money obliged his family to move to Station Road, Pendlebury, where factory chimneys were a more familiar sight then trees. Lowry would recall"At first I detested it, and then, after years I got pretty interested in it, then obsessed by it

Lowry felt that drawings were as hard to do as painting. He worked the surface of his drawings by smudging, erasing and rubbing the pencil lines on his paper to build the atmosphere of the drawing. He was always doing quick s

ketches on the spot on whatever paper he had in his pockets.

Lowry used a very basic range of colours, which he mixed on his palette and painted on the white background. "I am a simple man, and I use simple materials: ivory, black, vermilion (red), Prussian blue, yellow ochre, flake white and no medium (e.g. linseed oil). That's all I've ever used in my paintings. I like oils... I like a medium you can work into over a period of time".

The surface of Lowry's paintings shows us the variety of ways he worked the paint with brushes (using both ends), with his fingers and with sticks or a nail.