Two more offerings from my gypsy purse collection from this week. They have been put away since the house move, nearly two years now, and it has been great to get them all out and really look at them. I have even decided where I am going to hang them all now (but first there is a lot of redecorating to do!) Although I have spent hours staring at these beautiful little works over the years, turning them over and using a few of them - they make lovely colourful phone bags - I have been amazed at the difference between just looking, and actually going beyond looking to make a drawing. So many secrets have been revealed in their tiny stitches, so much joy in their colours, seeing how they were made meticulously by hand, and discovering minute decorative motifs I hadn’t really noticed before. It is so true that you never really know something until you draw it. It doesn’t even matter if you think you can’t draw and you aren’t happy with your work, the process itself does something to your brain, and you get to know your subject in a completely different way (sometimes literally inside-out).
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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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