Lesson One – Lowry’s Life
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore the life and work of the artist L S Lowry by investigating his artwork of a painting of an industrial scene as part of a landscape.
The class can identify and explain how Lowry represented people and places by using the five senses to describe his painting style when replicating life in one place.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore the life and work of the artist L S Lowry by investigating his artwork of a painting of an industrial scene as part of a landscape
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe themes and ideas used in paintings by a significant artist and a table display card to use the five senses to explore a painting by a significant artist showing an industrial or urban scene.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the life and work of L S Lowry by investigating his artwork of an industrial scene to identify and describe his painting style and techniques.
This lesson can support development in explore and replicate the painting style and techniques used by a famous British artist by creating a scene of the school playground to match artwork by L S Lowry. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.
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