Tag: drawing

  • 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 I became an illustrator

    Mandy wrote to me and asked: Please!! Dear Mr Rayner, You are busy so I will be brief. I am a mature student at Birmingham City University Yr 2. We have been asked to construct an artist profile. I love your work and it relates to the project I am currently working on. I am…

  • 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,…