Another day, another colourway and a new texture. I particularly like indigo and stone colours together, so I made a version of Crazy Daisies in just those two colours; plus a new loose-weave kind of hessian texture drawn up recently.
(PS I did something completely different with this texture over at Heather Eliza's blog!) The wildflower garden pattern I have been posting recently literally grew! I suddenly had the idea to expand the daisies to fit the spaces which surrounded them, then other elements expanded likewise, and this is the result. It is now one of my personal favourites, it just feels very 'me'. (My vintage tie daisy pattern is a close second, possibly even first equal).
I also made 2 new palettes recently: one was based on the colours from a lovely old velvet scarf I have, the other, pictured below, from a vibrant Peruvian hand-knitted cardigan I bought in A Mano in Camden, London, in the 1990s and still wear a lot - often with the velvet scarf for a marvellous colour display. By the way, these two are in the new clean linen texture I have been working on. I spent some time making a new linen texture for my pattern blogs; this one is a tighter weave and cleaner, without the blobs which added bags of character (but could be seen as stains). To the left below is the characterful one with the new one on the right as a comparison. I know it's not the best comparison using different colourways, but hey-ho.
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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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