Another example of how my interests are shared between my drawing practice and my illustration: unreadable asemic text has been a longstanding theme in my Heather Eliza drawings, and now, similarly, it has popped up in this playful illustration in the form of symbols representing what these birds are gossiping about! Ice, stars, water, trees, fluffy stuff, navigation, eggs, landmarks and - well, eeeee says the hen. All the stuff that birds need to share.
This town. Viewed through a disused railway bridge, I particularly enjoyed the cyclist above the houses entwined with vines - there is such a scene close by to where I live.
Autumn is arriving with all its fragrances: piles of fallen leaves and bonfires. I celebrate the calm and quiet of the new season in this work depicting a walled garden and a fancy gate.
The great lady pictured at Balmoral, where she passed away aged 96 today. Words cannot express how I feel; for my whole life, and the lives of millions of others, she has been present at our centre as the essence of Britishness as our calm, sensible, durable rock through hard times and good times.
RIP our beautiful Queen, you will be sorely missed. These flowers are inspired by one of the pages in the Voynich manuscript. I began working with a few small Voynich inspired florals in May and liked these compositions so much I decided to make bigger versions. Then I really got into the colours and made full separations so I can easily switch colourways, useful if I design a pattern with them in future or for making prints in different palettes.
New drawing finished today: the politics of toys. All the things that go on behind the backs of humans ... ... and an illustration I have been working this week. I wrote about the development of ideas which led to this image on my Heather Eliza blog. It is a detail of an illustration in my latest book, which of course is a deadly secret for the time being, but I can say for now that these are burst tubular bells falling from heaven as a result of a biblical party. I wrote the ditty which accompanies it years ago, but it still makes me laugh out loud every time I read it! That can't be too bad, can it?
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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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