Lovely light-filled flowers to herald in the spring for Easter: I made this watercolour from 2019 into a half-drop pattern over the weekend.
I painted this watercolour especially with pattern-making in mind, but couldn't work out how to do it back then - I had still to develop the method I use today on my old iPad, but finally, here it is! Normally at Easter I would be outside in the garden with my watercolours in my popup tent, but this year the holiday fell too early and the weather left a bit to be desired. The spring flowers weren't quite out yet, and no sign of blossoms on the apple trees. I didn't get around to making jelly bunnies or a cake this year, either, because it just didn't feel seasonal. However, Molly arrived with a super spicy and fruity dough recipe for hot cross buns, so in the end we did have an Easter theme in the kitchen. Words cannot describe the fragrance as they were baking. 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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