13 OCTOBER

10/13/2019

Folktale Week is only 3 weeks away now, my favourite week on Instagram! This year’s prompts were revealed on Monday: Home, Secret, Path, Smoke, Darkness, Key, and Crown. It kicks off on Monday 4th November, and I can’t wait to see how everyone interprets them.

The organisers have given us plenty of time this year to think about the prompts and get busy working ahead of time. I decided not to do Inktober this year in favour of making time for Folktale Week. I prefer to have a more or less clear month to schedule a daily post for Inktober, but this month is proving busy on every front, and there is such a thing as an Instagram challenge too far! So, Folktale Week wins, and I will be doing it with cats as I am still in the middle of the 100 days challenge. I may run a bit late with my Folktale Week work this year, but that doesn’t matter; just joining in, having fun with the prompts and seeing Instagram bursting into life with everyone’s wonderful fairytale work is what it’s about for me.

Thanks for visiting, see you next week!

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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.
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.
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 ...