Our beautiful Molly went home today, having ended her stay on a high note - a barbecue amongst the trees for our little community. As usual. B and I had our usual chicken tikka 'stand' in the row of barbecues (it does feel so much like doing a craft fair!) and Molly baked vegan millionaire's shortbread, lush with gooey caramel. High winds made it rather a lively do, with a big wind-break to stop the food on the communal table being tossed into the treetops.
Molly was actually working remotely from our home all week, so I was able to keep my head down and get on with the final stages of the children's book. It's a hair's breadth away from being completely finished. As always with these projects, content can't be shared which would be a spoiler, but I'm sure nobody will mind me showing the right hand side of a page background from the book today. 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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