Some more pareidolia from the pavements of Comely Park in Dunfermline - this time, some sea monsters and curious little fish. The fractured nature of rain shadows left in fissures suggest weightlessness, which is why these are turning out to be underwater or floating in air stories - anywhere which allows creatures to take off, and not to be tied to the ground. I have been taking lots of photos of summer flowers, too, with the vague idea that at some point I may start a 100 days of flowers project on Instagram informed by them. I know, my 100 cats only reached day 50, but that was because I thought it would take 100 drawings to develop a character I needed, and he was so fully resolved by day 50 I had to get on with illustrations featuring him. This time, I thought I might build a useful catalogue of floral inspiration for patterns and illustrations to take me into winter; sometimes it’s wonderful in the darker days to have a blast of summer.
On the other hand, I respond readily to seasonal change, so who knows where it could go - snow poppies? Ice crystal honeysuckle? Frozen rose? 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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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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