21 JANUARY

1/21/2019

It’s the full moon, and this morning’s is a ‘super blood wolf moon’! A total lunar eclipse gives a reddish tint to the full moon, and during this time the moon will be slightly closer to the Earth than usual. Plus, the January full moon is known as the wolf moon or great spirit moon - giving us this wonderfully Harry Potter-sounding ‘super blood wolf moon’.
We have begun to have small flurries of snow and frosty nights here in Scotland, so I drew this scene with ice crystals and snowflakes tinged pink by the blood moon falling around two silently-staring wolves.

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.

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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 ...