At the moment I am still patiently working my way through recreating some of my favourite patterns I made over the last two years in a clear, clean style. I am now able to drop colours to fill the strong outlines, which I can either leave black for a comic book look or 'lose' by making them the same colour as the fill. This process gives me an enormous amount of freedom to use different colourways now, previously I could only change the background colour; and they should print a lot better on fabric than previous versions. The very first version used folksy birds which I still find absolutely charming, but I know from experience its subtlety would be lost on fabric (it may work as a wallpaper printed at high resolution). I dropped the folksy birds in favour of crows, just because I love corvids, but I may make a new version using the folksy birds as well. Here is the new version at the very beginning, tracing my line over a greyscale version of the pattern without any birds at this stage - still a long way to go!
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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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