 BEST NINE OF 2018!! This post isn't exactly weekly - I missed a couple of weeks getting the house, still not in great shape from the house move, ready for Christmas. I have been making Christmas cards (link to my HEW blog) as well as unpacking boxes and tidying and cleaning for visitors. However, here are my Posts With The Most Likes on my Instagram this year! I particularly enjoyed 2018 Inktober, and Folktale Week - the first ever - was simply amazing. Nearly all the best nine above were associated in some way with Folktale Week, it was an inspired project by the organisers and really brought the illustration community together, making Instagram a much happier place for me. (And this post of my best nine has surpassed anything I could have hoped for in Likes - over 700!) I am so grateful for every single Like I receive - thank you if you are reading this and happen to be one of them! Thanks for visiting, see you next week!  Continuing autumnal themes on Instagram as we go into the darker days of the season, I have been keeping colours warm and deep with plenty of soft glowing tones. Oak trees are figuring prominently because we have piles of them driven into corners around the garden, which I started drawing a couple of weeks ago. I was attracted by their broken shapes - some had little holes in them - and their beautiful colours which looked great against wet grey paths. There is also a small cat helping crows to tidy the leaves - of course! Thanks for visiting, see you next week! |
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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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September 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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