A week of intensive pattern making again! I studied how William Morris made his pattern repeats and used one of his methods to create the floral pattern above in two colourways. Then I moved on to learning how best to draw in Procreate (I usually employ a cut and collage technique, but I get tired of the hours of cleaning up wobbly edges, the downside of using that technique digitally). Suddenly, and I really can’t remember how it came about, this mosaic or cloisonné effect drawing began to happen and I loved it. I even made a cat from it for hashtag caturday on Instagram! I will continue working on developing this idea this week, as well as adding to my Redbubble shop.
I am making the patterns really nice and big, so they fit just about all the products on Redbubble. My shop is growing, but there still isn’t enough to make the grand announcement yet. I reckon the second week of March will see it ready to ‘open’. I will, of course, be posting a link around then, so watch this space! It’s very exciting and I am enjoying the process enormously. Thanks for visiting, see you next week! 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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March 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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