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1 SEPTEMBER

9/1/2019

 
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Cats, cats and more cats! I am over a quarter of the way through my 100 Days Project. These scans of booklet No.2 show the (very) hand-made nature of the paper, my stitching, and the way I am working. I discovered this week that if I am using watercolours on this paper, which is very absorbent, I need to double up the pages to prevent bleeding through to drawings on the flip sides. I glued extra pages into the booklet to compensate, and now I am enjoying using watercolour freely. Some very sneaky cats and a cat burglar came out of this week!
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So far the pages in this booklet have been in order, but they are now out of sequence. I number each drawing as it is finished (rather than by page number) and sometimes I get stuck and move on to a new drawing while I am thinking about how to resolve a problem with an earlier one; these drawings do not appear consecutively in the booklet, but go 24, 25, 29, 30, 26, 27 because drawing no.29 (which was going to be no.26) gave me a few problems which took a couple of days to work out, and in the mean time I finished the other two. 29 was worth the extra time and thought, and it turned out to be a big favourite!
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I am loving that followers on Instagram are suggesting cats they would like to see, also my beloved B is now constantly thinking up new ideas! It's all much appreciated and very exciting.

Thanks for visiting, see you next week!

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    Welcome to my illustration blog! I usually post here on Wednesday, sometimes adding extras to keep a work journal.

    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.
    Currently I am working on illustrating a children's book, pattern making, and setting up a Spoonflower shop.

    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.
    Click the image if you would like to find out more and visit my other website.

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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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