You've heard of Little Monsters, well here's introducing the Little Monets.

About 30 pupils at Ley Top Primary School in Allerton have been putting paint to canvas in the style of the grand French master Monet for the past eight weeks and voila! Here is what they've come up with.

Teacher Susan Kelly says the children's work is a stroke of genius and that they took to the project like a brush to water.

The Year 5 pupils have painted landmarks of Bradford from City Hall in a blaze of orange, to the famous Cow and Calf rocks at Ilkley in calming blues and greens, and Bingley's picturesque Five Rise Locks.

Other gems featured were the Alhambra, Cartwright Hall, Lister Mill and Victoria Hall in Saltaire.

Now the paint has dried, the school in Avenel Road is faced with deciding what to do with the artworks and wants to find an exhibition space so the public can get a viewing.

"They are far too good to just keep in school. We're looking for somewhere to put them on display we're that proud of them. We've definitely got some budding artists on our register," said Mrs Kelly.

The little Monets, who have been studying the life and works of Monet as part of the National Curriculum, were given a helping hand by community artist Sian Hodson.

Claude Monet was only a few years older than the Ley Top children when he started earning money by drawing caricatures.

Born in Paris, he was not a brilliant scholar and against his parents' wishes turned to art as a career after showing no interest in working in his father's grocery shop.

During his life he served time as a soldier in Algeria and travelled widely, capturing his experiences in his artwork - known for their natural light, atmosphere and colour.

Few of Monet's paintings from the 1860s have survived, throughout the 1860s and 1870s he suffered extreme financial hardship and frequently destroyed his own paintings rather than have them fall into the hands of his creditors. He suffered from double cataracts and by the 1920s was virtually blind. An operation in 1923 gave him back enough sight to finish a series of 12 large water lily panels.

He died on December 5, 1926.