 I do like a week that starts with a new moon on Monday. It feels like a fresh start, rich in potential for new beginnings and adventures. This Monday was ... interesting. It started with an unintentional mashup of the Happy Days lettering idea I was working on last week. I opened the PSD document with layers in Preview by mistake and saved as a Jpeg, resulting in mangled transparent areas. It has a great 1950s vibe! I then went on to flood the kitchen at lunch time (left a tap running, plug in sink, nipped out to the bins, got distracted, 30 mins later = major flood). At least we had all clean drawers and cupboards, not to mention a spotless floor by the time we mopped up - that's a good new beginning.
On Tuesday I made a sunny composition of poppies and butterflies, thinking it would look good on tote bags. It didn't, but I discovered how to enable Kids' Clothing on Redbubble, which is great because I think a lot of my designs suit children's clothing better than adult. During the remainder of the week I made a new colour palette and reworked the Happy Days lettering. I wanted something cleaner and brighter to really look happy, and here is the result! Hopefully things will settle down now we have passed the new moon, and tomorrow brings the first quarter. No more floods and mashups. Thanks for visiting, see you next week! Comments are closed.
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Welcome to my illustration blog, where I share what I have been up to during the week.
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! 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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May 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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