Harking back to May 2022 and a few drawings I made inspired by the Voynich manuscript, this week I began another pattern I have always wanted to design but never plucked up the courage to get on with dealing with the complexities of turning a drawing into a pattern. I met many pitfalls along the way: I traced the original in Procreate, which was a good start, but by the time I got this far with it I realised I was working from tiny originals at 72 dpi. I forgot they were low resolution, and I prefer to work with 300 dpi as industry standard, or at least Procreate's default 264 dpi; so, resizing and redrawing was necessary. So, once I had sorted the resolution and nice crisp elements I was up and running. At the same time I tweaked the dimension of the pattern tile which not only tightened the design, but as an added bonus it also fitted the texture tiles I have been collecting. Here are three colour separations which on their own have a delightful floating and spacious quality which may well become another pattern.
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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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April 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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