Back in January, I took a series of photos of deserted play parks in my home town. At the time I felt they had a poetic quality, abandoned in favour of a brand new super-swanky play area with amazing, creative equipment for children to explore, literally with bells and whistles. Reflecting now on these photos they seem premonitory, as the new super-swanky one today lies just as deserted following government advice to keep children away from play parks. The UK has been in official lockdown against the coronavirus for a week now.
As far as my work goes, it's business as usual, except there are no interruptions to try and avoid! It's very quiet outside. The birds sing clearly and the chestnut buds are swelling daily. I worked on the children's book illustrations, tidied up my Redbubble shop (focusing on greetings cards and postcards from my 100 cats project), and started work on an interesting pattern. Of course, the Heather Eliza drawings continue as well. I don't get out much at the best of times, so not much effort required here for lockdown! Thanks for visiting, stay safe, and 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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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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