Today is a double post with my Heather Eliza journal, not something I do very often. However, these chairs started 10 years ago (almost to the day) as drawings in a Heather Eliza sketchbook which I traced this week and featured in my Heather Eliza journal, where I have written a little about how they were originally made. During the week I suddenly had the idea to get a T-shirt made for work with upholstery in-jokes on badly drawn chairs (because I am an upholsterer and seamstress by day) - I thought the lads at work might find it amusing. I remembered the old wonky chair sketches which I thought would be great for the job, and got them out to give them the Binky treatment. Here is a quick attempt at a T-shirt design. I'm a big fan of raglan sleeve baseball T's, so this style is what I would get for myself if I did decide to get one. Here is a suitably upholstery-type cheeky-looking young man modelling my design on my Redbubble: Below is a continuation of the crows pattern I have been revamping, beginning to add colour. It's actually quite slow work, a lot of touching-in has to happen as I go along, but that is over-ruled by the freedom I now have with this pattern to create different colourways. Thanks for visiting, see you next week!
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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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