Primary 6 have been learning about life in the Victorian period. We have been researching about what life was like for Victorian children. Poor children were not allowed to go to school instead they had to work in a variety of jobs. One of the jobs poor children had to do was sweep the chimneys. Often orphans had to do this job because they were sold to chimney sweeps. They were able to do this job because they were small and thin and could climb up the chimneys.
We imagined how the children must feel doing such a difficult job and agreed that it must have been a very hard and lonely life.
Using our art skills we created pictures to reflect the emotions felt by a lonely chimney sweep. We used shape analysis to create effective silhouettes and then drew them onto a background we had painted using watercolours. We chose to do a night sky to show how lonely and hard the job must be.
I chose to use pastels to create the silhouette of the chimney sweep on top of the watercolour background. I drew only one chimney sweep to show how lonely he is.
Olivia
We all successfully created art which reflects the feelings of a Victorian working child.
We are going to use our research to create a diary and a poem about Victorian life.
Click on the link below to watch us create our pictures
