Now that I had my new Catkins pattern, I was excited to experiment with different colourways and textures. Above shows a speckle texture in indigo and sepia, suggestive of ink drawings or woodcut prints. The four colourways below have been given a linen texture, and they show how the simplest of tweaks to colours and backgrounds radically affect a pattern to the extent it almost looks like a completely different design, even the scale of elements appears to change. This is why experiments like these are so exciting. Having omitted all the little sprigs between the branches of the tree (which suggested willows waving in a riverside breeze) from this pattern, I was happier that the design would print better. My concern was that the spriggy lines were so fine they would run into each other and look a bit mushy with random solid fills. One of the reasons I overlay textures is to get a feel for how a design might print on textiles, in this case I think it was helpful in avoiding pitfalls.
From this point, a different inspiration came along ... To be continued 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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