This is the first weekend I have had to myself since mid-July. We have been incredibly busy since then: as an indirect result of the Edinburgh Festivals the day-job went crazy with 650 chairs to recover for the Scottish Assembly Rooms while they weren't in use in addition to all our regular work. Throw into the equation 3 lots of house guests, dog-sitting and cat-sitting to cover various owners' holidays, and different commitments in the evenings and weekends - you get the picture. I did manage to get some pattern-making done simply by stealing 5 minutes here and there, working in the car during lunch-breaks. I had set aside images for my blog but didn't get around to posting them so I back-dated those then made these two catch-up collages. Top row: Zico in the garden with a bolted rocket plant, hurrah! Molly arrived: modular fun with B, and Kirkcaldy beach with Zico Middle row: B's beautiful olive bread and squash soup; pizza making day (hilarious photo which Molly superimposed onto a Kirkcaldy beach pic; pizza looking like a 1970s cookery book photo which I love, Bottom row (pun intended): Rude food - Molly and I had fits of hysteria discovering a pair of buttocks in a butternut squash in Aldi, followed by spotting suggesive lollies (I thought we were going to get thrown out) - and somehow we managed to make some of B's rustic breads into more rude food. So, Wildflower Garden had a makeover with a rearrangement of the colour separations, and together with Crazy Daisies both were given new colourways based on old velvet shades and my favourite Peruvian cardi.
New work is underway, too ... 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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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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