Following a recent jaunt into abstracts and geometric patterns, it's back to florals again with a rework of one I made in May 2021. It's one of my favourites, but I hadn't made it into a half-drop back then, just a block print, which I thought was a shame because it deserved a better flow; so while I was still on holiday I revived and refreshed the original. Now it is flowing and has bigger, brighter (and fewer) colours than before. I also revived a linen texture I made ages ago to provide texture just for blog and IG posts - it looks charming! Wouldn't it be great if it looked like that actually printed on a linen weave? Here are a few more colour experiments. And, as often happens, while I was working on this one, some new developments came into my head which I will post here next week! I haven't yet mentioned a revisit to the abstract shapes I started back in January to kickstart the new year after the Christmas holidays. I had developed ideas for patterns, which I never got around to putting into repeat, so this is what I was working on before I took my holiday from work. This one is my favourite, in 6 colours. I like to limit colour palettes from time to time, harking back to the old days of colour separations and single colour print runs. As a matter of fact, because my iPad technology is somewhat outmoded (it's nearly 10 years old), this is still the way I work, using the layers in Procreate 4.3.8 for colour separations.
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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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