 There has been a lot of pareidolia in Binky world, including this man wearing a bowler hat on a bicycle amusing a pony riding by riding with the handlebars back to front - it can get a bit surreal in this world of the imagination!
I've been working ahead of myself this week to collect together a few images while I begin a new body of drawings (see my Heather Eliza journal) and I'm not sure how much visual story-telling I can do at the same time as developing these. Normally I can switch quite easily between illustration/pattern-making and my drawings, but beginning new work requires total focus until I feel my way into it. Once I know where new work is going I can begin to switch about again and regain a balance between the two practices, and the pleasure and interest in each resumes and they jog along side by side. There is of course always the fear that I'll forget how to do the other thing while I'm focusing on the new, whichever way the switch is, but it's usually still there waiting for me when I get back into it. Hopefully. You know us artists, so full of self-doubt and imposter syndrome it's amazing we ever get anything done at all. Thanks for visiting, see you next week! Comments are closed.
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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. Given that, I have no idea how Doggie with his dead-pan expression became my avatar instead of a cat - something to do with popularity on Instagram and lots of jokes with him! 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. 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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September 2021
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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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