I find it amusing to make up pub names by putting incongruous nouns together. It's like a kind of haiku, except minus a lot of syllables! Bee & Thurlestone sounds like a good one - would this be a good design for its signboard, I wonder?
Normally, of course, at this time of year I would be blogging about making Christmas cards etc, but I'm not doing that this year. I have blogged a bit about that - and also about my day job if you are interested in that, over at Heather Eliza's site today, so I am just sharing another spread from my book here for now. This one is for two ditties. This is the one for Thurlestone Rock: If Thurlestone Rock should ever block And everything go solid There'd be no arch where winkles march 'Twould really be quite horrid. One of my favourites! I haven't got anything organised for Christmas yet - must get a move on with that ... Comments are closed.
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Welcome to my illustration and patterns blog!
I illustrate under the pen-name of Binky McKee, McKee being my mother's maiden name. Binky was the name of every single cat my great-grandmother kept - allegedly about 40 of them during her 94 years of life. I changed the website address a few months ago, so some older links on previous posts are broken. If you click one of those and it takes you to a strange page, simply replace the .co.uk after the binkymckee. with weebly.com and it will work again. I hope you enjoy your visit! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I keep lots of scrapbooks and sketchbooks where I develop ideas and design little creatures. Here's a peek inside one ...
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As you may know, I am also known as Heather Eliza Walker.
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May 2024
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This time, take a peek into my ceramic design sketchbook. I actually made some of the mugs, but I kind of prefer the drawings! The plate designs are painted on paper plates, a most liberating process.
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These watercolours are from my pattern sketchbook. I used coloured wax crayons to resist the washes of watercolour, also home-made rubber stamps dipped in bleach then printed on crêpe paper - the bleach takes out the paper dyes.
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A sketchbook I used for mark-making with unusual objects - corks, seed-heads, feathers, home-made rubber stamps, my fingers and lots of flicky things ...
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