This week was spent tidying up this pattern, making sure that every colourway is perfect. I made 10 different colourways with it in the end, so it was time consuming but worth it. I added a backdrop of polka dots to some of them which really made them sparkle. I really like this pattern and will upload my favourite colours to Redbubble soon. Apart from that we had such a summer-filled week that I took my phone with me everywhere; on our daily walks through the park, in the garden, the house, and even the neighbour's garden while I was on cat duty this weekend, snapping every flower and plant and growing thing which caught my interest. I have been doing a lot of gardening and even ordered some new plants which is always exciting. I was looking especially for details such as number of petals, lobed, pointed - all the different shapes and colours; how the stems attach to the flower head and what colour they are, and if they are hairy or smooth and how they branch, what kind of leaves they have etc - just generally collecting as much information while it's all around us to store up for reference through the winter. Of course I love to be outdoors with my paints and sketchbook, but I can easily work from photos for pattern work; photos are a flat space, and so are patterns, and as I mostly highly stylise flowers all I need is variety in my designs to escape falling into generic habits. And, of course, the pleasure of looking at photos of pretty flowers on a warm summer's day is undeniable.
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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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March 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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