We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas ... With my best wishes to all my friends, family, and loyal fans. Thank you for all your support throughout they year! Love, Binks XX Gradually, bit by bit, I have been adding to this illustration and appreciating its details. I have worked a version to make a 4-part Instagram post making use of them which I will be posting soon, but before then I want to brighten up my profile page with a few brighter images. However, it has been challenging trying to do much work during this week's cold snap. I showed photos and wrote about our ice-scaped windows (the fanciest in town!) on my Heather Eliza blog, but didn't mention some of the other issues. It was so cold in the house our devices stopped charging and nothing would work until we put them all on hot water bottles. It took so long scraping and defrosting the car in the early mornings that I lost what is often my best part of the day to squeeze in a little artwork, even if my devices had been working; and the need for hot food before going out at 7.15am took a lot of extra time. B was a marvellous help with it all, making sure my flask was filled with hot soup and my stewed fruit didn't burn while defrosting the car - it has been a week of getting up at an unearthly hour every dark morning and racing to get dressed before getting paralysed by the cold!
Thanks for visiting, see you next week! I find it amusing to make up pub names by putting incongruous nouns together. It's like a kind of haiku, except minus a lot of syllables! Bee & Thurlestone sounds like a good one - would this be a good design for its signboard, I wonder?
Normally, of course, at this time of year I would be blogging about making Christmas cards etc, but I'm not doing that this year. I have blogged a bit about that - and also about my day job if you are interested in that, over at Heather Eliza's site today, so I am just sharing another spread from my book here for now. This one is for two ditties. This is the one for Thurlestone Rock: If Thurlestone Rock should ever block And everything go solid There'd be no arch where winkles march 'Twould really be quite horrid. One of my favourites! I haven't got anything organised for Christmas yet - must get a move on with that ... What the drawing says. My head has been left behind somewhere in October. I have been wondering why people at work keep talking about Christmas - turkeys, stuffing, steak, and Christmas trees are trending in conversations and every so often a voice will burst into song with a line from Christmas a song or TV advert. I was thinking it's a bit early for all of that, but here we are in December already! Time to get the deccies out ...
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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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