Mostly cats, plus a few fish populate my work at the moment. I am sure this is unconsciously autobiographical, as I am looking after a cat and a goldfish for neighbours. I love cats, but don’t have one myself now so it is a pleasure to be privy to Minnie’s hauteur. She likes to make it clear she is way above associating with me, but every so often suppressed silliness breaks through, and she prances about chasing a glittery Santa head on string.
The goldfish is interesting, too. I don’t think he has a name, but I call him Michael Fish (after the weather man on TV). I don’t know how it happened, but the fish lost his tail one day - and it grew back! This, apparently, is a thing fish are capable of. Michael wears his new one like a chiffon train, swishing its delicate, sheer fabric behind him as he swims about his tank, which contains a satisfying mixture of plants and weird little models of towers. It’s a world where tiny castles and miniature forests make a goldfish look as big as a god in his watery sky, and real plants look like the one in Jack and the beanstalk! Thanks for visiting, see you next week! Comments are closed.
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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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April 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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