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! Folktale Week on Instagram took place this week. It was a wonderful week of Instagram being taken over by illustrators and their amazing interpretations of folk tales! Lots of interaction, discovering incredible talent and making new friends and chatting! Here are some of my interpretations of the prompts: day 1, Forest; day 4, Ghost; day 5, Insect; and day 7, Animal. For more details on Folktale Week, do visit Instagram where I have links to the organisers of the event who had incredible vision and worked hard to bring the illustration community together and encourage artists to interact - it was a huge success for everybody who took part! Thanks for visiting, see you next week! I am currently working on a long-term illustration project which has yet to be published, so no sharing of that yet - but, on the side I have been posting spin-offs from the project on Instagram and enjoying #inktober; above are the prompts Prickly, Stretch, and Gift. Plus a beastie as a warm-up for #folktaleweek2018 which begins on 12 November! The prompts for that came out today - very wonderful and exciting. Thanks for visiting, see you next week! I was so excited to discover a group of illustrators on Instagram have initiated Folktale Week for November 2018. Needless to say, I joined immediately, and the response was staggering and I discovered so many amazing illustrators through the hashtag. Meanwhile, thanks to Folktale Week, I found there are Prompts on Instagram for Inktober. I have always been aware of the hashtag Inktober, but didn't realise there were prompts to follow until now - so this year I joined rather late in the month, this time following the prompts (I am rather new to social media and its ways). So here we have Day 23, Muddy; Day 24, Chop (I did chop suey, dubious I know) and Day 22 - today's post - Expensive: a portrait of Dolly-Meg the rescue greyhound, who has cost me a fortune in vets' bills for dental treatment and general charging about the place jumping through glass windows, but worth every penny as she is the sweetest, gentlest, funniest soul. So here you have a sneak preview of the next two days on Instagram, and an idea of what Binky is going to be posting next month - folk tales, exactly her thing. However, I have plans for new Heather Eliza Walker drawings in the pipeline, too. When my studio is a bit more organised (more boxes to unpack from the house move still to go, and a book-case to find) I will be on to that. I hope you have a wonderful week ahead, I think autumn is so exciting and I love the run-up to Hallowe'en! Thanks for visiting, see you next week! |
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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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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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