 Still collecting colour ideas for my school days pattern, playing with limited palettes on selected motif sections and also trying out different colours for the line work, often mixing them up with some of my character drawings like this juggling panda. They add interest to a sketchbook page.  The old school days pattern is now bouncing into life in full glorious technicolour! I have three colourways on the go, and thanks to a sleepless night I got a bonus pattern out of it when I started working with some of the motifs I separated. I know a lot of people who jigsaw puzzle on a sleepless night, pattern making is my jigsaw. If I can't sleep, I pattern. It's so absorbing it drives out those scary middle of the night thoughts like why is the Universe and does it have a pattern and if it doesn't, how do we handle the chaos without starting religious wars. I love how jolly this looks, and it really has that 1970s authentic look because the original was made in the 70s, in my teens when I was so into the style, as I still am but have forgotten a lot about it. Would my schoolgirl self ever have thought I would still be working with this nearly 50 years later? Maybe! I'm still the same person, after all, and just about old enough to be my own granny.  Okay, it's getting weird now, so I'm going -
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Welcome to my illustration blog! I usually post here on Sundays, sometimes adding a mid-week post to keep a work journal.
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! Must get a photo of my own face at some point. 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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November 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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