 It’s all about the #100daysproject on Instagram this week. I am loving other people's projects, producing exciting work during the 100 days and resulting in fascinating collections. Inspired by this, I decided to join and do my project with cats. The open notebook pictured above shows the first two cats, and illustrates my intention to make 5 booklets of 20 pages each and work through the booklets until they are all complete and I have 100 cats. Below are the cats which followed on each day of the week.  I don’t know what will happen during the project, I can’t even imagine at the moment what it will be like when I have made 50 cats, or 75! The only time I have made 100 of anything is when I have made a run with rubber stamps or linocuts, or multiples for Christmas cards; those are very much the same but different each time. I am hoping that by the time I have created 100 cats, my cat style will have developed into something unique, and I always love a few surprises on the way!
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Welcome to my illustration blog, where I share what I have been up to during the week.
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 - about 40 of them during her 94 years of life. Given that, I have no idea how Doggie with his dead-pan expression became my avatar instead of a cat - something to do with popularity on Instagram and lots of jokes with him! Currently I am working on illustrating a children's book, pattern making, and of course I can't resist a good Instagram challenge such as Folktale Week or Inktober. 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 2021
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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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