I've been experimenting with a bark paper texture, which brought this folksy pattern I made last year to life together with a slight adjustment to the colour separations. I converted it to make the Hallowe'en version in the previous post, also given the papery treatment - I like the scrap-book feel which has revived and refreshed the pattern.
I know it's bonfire night but I'm not feeling it this year, too much stress for dogs and other pets, so no fireworks pictures today. I have noticed much less activity on the Guy Fawkes front this year locally. I hate to sound preachy, being one who prefer a more laisser-faire approach, but loud explosions and waste of resources seem inappropriate and anachronistic on all levels of our present political climate, so best to let it lie for now I think; perhaps it's time for some quiet reflection and reframing how we interact with our world instead of celebrating huge fires and spectacular expensive rockets for the sake of a few minutes' entertainment. 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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