The outline tile for this floral pattern is now finished, so I began working on colour experiments. These progress shots with lots of surrounding space are very pleasing to the eye. As well as trying out different colour fills, I experimented with using coloured outlines, giving a different cast to the hues of the pattern. I also made the outline disappear altogether by colouring it the same as the background, as can be seen in the image above. As always at this stage lots of new ideas popped up along the way, alongside quite a bit of troubleshooting - I found missing parts of line, things overlapping where they shouldn't and a few other of the usual suspects to amend. For example, as I started colouring in the outline drawing above, I noticed the leaf to the right of the coloured section was overlapping the large poppy just visible on the right edge, which made no spacial sense; the big poppy shouldn't be behind the plant next to it, which is already behind the coloured group. It halted the graceful upwards direction of the pattern, so I amended the drawing by neatly tucking the leaf in. The change can be seen to the left of the big orange poppy - now it's in a happy space and flowing nicely. I loved this quiet William Morris-type colour scheme against the dark green background. I saved this progress shot while playing around and will keep the idea for later. It probably doesn't look like it here, but these versions are very rough and ready and are definitely just sketches. I changed my mind about the colours so many times I exhausted the outlines with too many colour drops, and there are accidental ticks and smudges all over from too much handling, but after a few more colour tweaks I will have the references to make some lovely clean patterns.
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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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