 It's been a week of possums! Last June I challenged myself to make a pattern very, very quickly, and what I came up with then formed the original idea for this new design. It took rather longer this time, working with 11 colour separations for any number of colour combinations. Above is a block (or grid) repeat I worked in a few colours, and below is a brick repeat which I haven't yet played around with in different colours.  I actually threw the original workings away at the time, thinking it was just a one-off quickie and not worth pursuing. I was sorry about that later when I was scrolling through my Instagram account, and found it posted on 9 June last year. Seeing it afresh I thought it had an innocent charm (probably because I had made it so quickly with no overthinking). It had something about it, and I thought I would really like to work with it again, but a search through my work folders proved that I really had thrown it away, probably because I knew it wouldn't reproduce very well as a fabric. I had worked the design in whatever I had lying about on my desktop at the time, which happened to be a 'riso' texture: very grainy and transparent, and it looked a bit dirty against coloured backgrounds.
Then, by one of those miracles of iCloud, I came across its image in my deleted folder in Files the other day. I grabbed it, brought it into Procreate, and discovered it was the original psd with colour experiments and everything! So here it is, reworked properly this week and I am so happy with it. The moral of the story? - don't throw any work away! You never know how useful it will be in the future. I didn't even post about it on my blog back then, but in today's context I think it deserves some representation. I have now back-dated a chronological post to last June with a few notes about it. Thanks for visiting, see you next week! Comments are closed.
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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.
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May 2022
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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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