These two little bears I drew earlier in the week look so dorky they made me think of space cadets. Something must have crept in unconsciously, because at the time I hadn't realised what a big space week lay ahead ... On Wednesday William Shatner, Star Trek's beloved Captain James T. Kirk, blasted into space at the age of 90 aboard Blue Origin's NS-18 suborbital flight of the New Shepard spacecraft. Looking out of the window he had an overwhelming vision: the Earth teeming with life, in contrast to the deathly span of space. He commented: "We need to take care of the planet, but it's so fragile. There's this little tiny blue skin that is 50 miles wide, and we pollute it, and it's our means of living." (Video and article on Space) Shatner's (or should it be Captain Kirk's?) comments have been hailed as an 'ode to planet Earth'. I'm not surprised, there is poetry everywhere in this. As if this wasn't enough, yesterday satellite Lucy was launched on a mind-blowing mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in search of clues as to how planets formed at the beginning of time as we know it. The asteroids are thought to be remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets. (Article and animation at Nasa) Apparently the satellite will never come back to land on Earth, it will just fly around in orbit for 100,000 years. I'm not sure if that is fascinating or really, really scary. As for these two, back on Planet Earth, I'd love to know what that cat just said to the bear! Cat is clearly huffy and the bear offended. I don't know how these expressions get onto some of my characters, but put together they form a most comedic narrative.
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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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