Prep VI consolidated our Painting and Mixed Media: Artist Study unit by visiting the Lowry Gallery to look at the works of our local artist LS Lowry. We were met by visiting artist Michelle Leigh, and our first point of call was the Lowry 360 experience, where we were dropped into Lowry’s crowds attending a Bolton Wanderers football match. With a bustling market place behind us, and tall smoking chimneys all around, it was a brilliant way to experience first hand Lowry’s work. Michelle then took us into the gallery itself, where she talked about the different painting styles that Lowry used and how this led to different types of pictures that he painted and drew.
Having seen his work close up, Michelle then took us into our own studio where she gave us tips and tricks as to how we could reproduce some of Lowry’s techniques. Using one point perspective, stippling, smudging, water washing, rubbers and other techniques, we created our own versions of a Lowry street scene, with a self portrait and one of Lowry’s beloved dogs in the foreground. We then used a larger canvas where we used these techniques that we’d learned to create a visual landscape that Lowry perhaps would not have seen – this accounts for our multi story car parks and Greggs buildings, amongst others!
Michelle’s session was thoroughly engaging, and it was a shame to bring it to a close, but stomachs were rumbling and we also had a drama session to fit in. This time it was Sam who led our activities. Again using Lowry as our inspiration, we undertook a variety of drama activities, including recreating scenes from Lowry’s paintings. We then chose a character from one of the paintings, and wrote a brief back story for that character – we then split into groups and acted these out. Sam was an inspiring leader, and the children responded well to the tasks he set us.
An entertaining, engrossing day, helping to bring our Lowry learning to life – thanks to Michelle and Sam for making it so engaging!
I really liked this trip one of my favourite parts was listening to other people’s stories. I also really liked the warming up and acting the matchstick men out with Sam. Another bit I liked was the 360 video but everything was really great.
Amna Prep 6
I really enjoyed this trip because imagined how I would of painted some of the art compared to LS Lowery would
Carter Riley Prep 6
i found this trip intresting. I loved when Sam did the warm up my favourite part was when we played keep the ball up and I also liked the granny game. My artwork wasnt the best but it was pretty fun only a 15 min journey to the lowry I would definatley go there again especially the pictures were really good so was Michelle who was really kind
Victor Kindon Prep 6
this trip was so fun and exiting. I really enjoyed it here and learnt a lot about L.S Lowry. I really enjoyed the acting and the story writing in the studio. My favourite painting is the man with the red eyes. Although it’s a bit intimidating it’s very impressive how it used to be a self portrait.
Lucie Hogan PVI
I really enjoyed going to the Lowry theatre I will remember this experience for a long time as I feel it has helped me with my art techniques. Also my favourite activity was the acting section where we wrote and acted out a story based of Lowrys pictures. It was also really cool learning how to draw a street with houses from a single spot of a page.
Harriet
I loved the trip to the Lowry because I love acting and painting and that is exactly what we did. We got to see L.S Lowry’s actual paintings! My fav part of the trip was the performing arts because we got to play lots of games, imagine what Lowry’s match stick people would walk like and did really funny warm up activities. I also enjoyed the painting section because I learnt lots of new techniques which i will continue to use in the future. The techniques where very helpful because it helped me draw a one point perspective road just from an X. Overall the day was amazing and I would defiantly do it again.
Amelie Monaghan Prep 6.
This trip was very enjoyable and fun.We did lots of different things like looking at his painting in the gallery to making our own Lowry paintings to making his paintings come to life .Overall this was a very good day and I would definitely go again.
This trip was amazing and i really enjoyed looking at LS Lowry’s paintings.My favorite part was the drama/roleplay because it was fun and got me really excited.I also really loved the 360 view where the paintings came to life it was really cool and i could even touch some of the little matchstick people so overall probably my second favorite trip of all time.
Casey Knight
This trip was one of the funnest trips ever, in the morning we got to look at some of lowrys art work, including his most famous one “at the match” and then a person called michael taught us some amazing art techniques. After lunch, we had drama walking around like the matchstick people and writing a story about a charactor from a painting, overall this was the best trip ever i would love to go again
William year 6
I think the trip looked really good I am really sorry that I missed it. The art on the wall in class looked amazing. Ben P6
I really enjoyed this day out, It was amazing! I really enjoyed drawing and recreating the point persective drawing with starts out as an X then turns into and amazing masterpiece. I also really enjoyed when the whole class had to recreate Lowry’s picture which was quite chaotic!
Rose Prep 6
This trip to the Lowry was an amazing experience, from acting to making our own Lowry pieces. I have to say my favourite pieces of art that we saw were the beach landscapes. The landscapes felt so calming and realistic, very emotional. Our class was lucky enough to get to watch a video in a room, where every wall and the floor had a screen and they showed one of Lowry’s paintings come to life, and some were also combined to others. A spectacular trip, would have to be the most interesting and inspiring one I have been on.
Poppy Boyes Prep 6
I really enjoyed this trip this was one of my favourite trips I have ever been on my favourite part of the trip was when we did the drama with our teacher Sam my favourite part of the drama was acting like matchstick men like L.S Lowery
Did in his parings to make people
Hallie Anderson prep 6
I really enjoyed drawing and painting in the style of L.S Lowry; I just thought his style was so interesting! I also really liked the 360 video experience which just brought the painting to life. Thank you to all those who organized this trip for us!
This was one of my most favoroute trip ever I learnt lots of new facts about the artist like his mum hated his pictures accept one picture he died in the 1970s and one of the most famouse drawings was the man with the red eyes wich we actually did in school my favorout part of the trip was doing the acting with the football and red light green light I would 100000 percent go there again.
Noah Ciubotariu.
I really enjoyed this trip, I especially liked the writing stories and acting them out with Sam. I also really liked learning different drawing techniques in the art studio with Michelle. I loved looking at all the original paintings L.S Lowery. My favourite painting was called The Man With Red Eyes which in class we tried drawing it. I really liked The Man With Red Eyes painting because it stood out and caught my eye.
Elijah Griffiths Prep 6