The last two illustrations from my Folktale Week on Instagram. For day 6, Key, I made all the keys in Procreate, and used a photo of textured wall to suggest a baronial castle setting for Binky the cat detective to demonstrate how to find the correct key. I very much had in mind Miranda Hart’s Pussy Poirot, from her hilarious BBC series Miranda: “dressing pets as famous detectives” (Series 1.3. Job). The last day’s prompt was Crown, and I chose a drawing from my archives to use. I made it about 4 years ago and never did anything with it. It was a simple matter to bring it into Procreate and tweak a crown and call it “Stary Mary had the biggest crown in the land”. The beautiful warm quality comes from using oil paint on gold leaf over red bole. It creates the richness of oil painting even though it is on paper. This was my most popular Folktale Week illustration this year, perhaps because of the colours and brooding yet whimsical nature? I never can find any rhyme or reason to Likes on Instagram.
Well, I can't believe it is the 26th of November already - less than a month until Christmas! My next move is to start making cards, and at the weekend we will be getting the decorations down from the attic. I am looking forward to the cheer of sparkly lights and candles and glitter, it has become very dark here in Scotland as we creep closer to the solstice. 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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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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