A pony emerged from the photos of crumpled up leaves on the pavement I took a couple of weeks ago, and quickly turned into three ponies in a field. At first I had them standing on a speckled green background, great colour combination, but it wasn't gelling particularly well with me. To be absolutely honest, I wasn't really feeling it at first and found it difficult to get into this. It was rather disappointing, because I had been looking forward to allocating some time to making some pareidolia drawings again; I had been going so strongly with it last time and having a lot of fun on a roll with it. Perhaps the new photos didn't inspire the same creative charge, or perhaps it was because at first I couldn't remember which Procreate brushes I had been using which made it all look a bit wrong. Maybe my mood wasn't the same as before, which I think may have been the most likely explanation, as I found my thoughts being drawn towards this little illustration of a yellow bear I made four years ago. I never did anything with this work, I didn't post it anywhere, just quickly named it Yellow Bear, filed it away out of sight, and forgot about it. I found it unsettling at the time and had to force myself not to delete it. This was probably because at the time I was heavily into developing a way to make patterns without automated software on my iPad, and this bear staring out at me lit by flashlight suddenly came out of nowhere. I remember it happening at around 5am on a cold, dark March morning (it almost created itself) and it sort of scared me - these things happen, all part of the creative process.
I discovered I still had the bear illustration a couple of years later, after I had forgotten all about it. I have taken the odd look at it now and again since, and wondered why I had almost discarded it. Maybe I just wasn't ready at the time, confused by the different ideas which emerged in the work, and simply taking myself too seriously. Today I'm so glad I didn't delete it, because now I have decided I really like my stary yellow bear and sought it out for inspiration this week. It wasn't until I set the ponies on the same background as I used for the bear that something began to happen and they came to life; I'm now thinking that instead of the crayon-like drawing style I was using previously for pareidolia drawings I might prefer to work in the same way as I made the bear. It would be quite a different approach to making pareidolia images, perhaps more in line with my feelings at the moment. Thanks for visiting, see you next week! 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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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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