Tag: art

  • Drawing Washing Machines with Year 2

    I’ve been working with the Archbishop Rowan Williams Church in Wales School for a few weeks now, making books out of the stories we came up with its three different year groups. I’ll explain more about the project later. Yesterday the Year 2 children worked really hard all afternoon and we finally finished our books – hooray! One of…

  • How to Draw the Plague Doctor

    Youtuber Auf Niederlander asked me to draw the Plague Doctor. Who’s he? He was the the doctor that visited plague victims in the 16th and 17th century. This drawing is based on an engraving of “Dr Schnabel” – or Dr Beak – of Rome. in the mid 17th century. Towns would employ special plague doctors,…

  • How to draw Mountains

    Mrs Woolcock contacted me on Twitter. Her class follow my drawing and she asked if I could show how to draw mountains as they are just beginning a topic on mountains. In the first video I have gone back to the great 16th century artist and printmaker, Albrecht Dürer, to see how he would draw…