Marrow, marrow, glorious marrow
Much larger than the courgette Don't store in the dairy for it may grow hairy And then it could never be ate A taster from my book of dreadful ditties and dodgy doggerels. 'Ate' rhyming with 'courgette'? definitely dodgy. There are two verses to accompany this illustration I made during August, but I won't trouble you with the second right now, it could be a spoiler and who knows, you may just want to buy the book! I am very happy with the flatness, patterns and the curly lettering I devised for this one. It resembles a 1950s cookery book, and the jaunty comedy of the drawing sets the perfect mood for the verses. There will be a few more of these tasters coming up here while I am working on drawings for Edinburgh's Open Eye Gallery. Their Christmas exhibition On a Small Scale opens in November and the handing-in deadline is coming up fast, so the focus is on that at the moment. The works can be seen on my Heather Eliza website, slide off over there if you would like to view. 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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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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