A few adjustments to colour and tones, and I also found a faulty leaf! It was such a tiny fault on a crossover section of the pattern it may not even have shown up, but I don't leave things which could come back and haunt me later so I fixed it. It took ages to not only to correct a few pixels' worth and put the section into repeat with the rest of the pattern, but to amend all versions of the work I had made so far, going right back to the first outline drawing. I wanted the crows to feature some blue, but I felt the black lines looked too heavy. I tried recolouring the lines but nothing worked well until I went for the partial recolour option above. This is what the layer beneath the main pattern, used for touch-ups and fills for areas too small for colour-drop, looks like - I like its sketchy, painterly look. There's something quite vintage (perhaps 1930s - 40s) which I can image printed on a flowing, soft crepe material.
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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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