A gate sprouting vines and flowers crowding to escape - poor Harold the custodian owl! I get the feeling that a full moon falling on a Friday, as happened this week, must be particularly potent. I put together the above image for Instagram as a spin-off from one of my recent illustrations. This week I reworked some of the illustrations for my own book of ditties. It's only when I'm some way along the road that I hit a mood for the illustrations and they begin to settle, so I spent a couple of days consolidating and updating some of the earlier ones; all are now looking good and consistent.
Before moving on to the next illustration, I spent the weekend working very quick sketches. It's the age-old dilemma; while working hard on a project which has to stay under wraps for a while, what does an artist do to maintain an online presence? I either reuse elements of an illustration and make them into something different (such as Harold the owl) or have a good, swift-working brain-storming session. It's a great exercise anyway and helps to loosen up. New ideas come spilling into the work with the rapid flow, and I end up with nice pieces for social media like this colourful reel and story I made for Instagram. To avoid chaos and inconsistency I find it best to stick to one method for fast work, which I hope makes a good counterpart to the finished illustrative work, and doesn't make me look too schizoid. Thanks for visiting, see you next week! 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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