 A bit of blatant escapism in the face of world situations getting worse instead of improving, and peace seeming to slip further away - all because of one, single, solitary man.
I have been working solidly on the children's book this week, this is a spin-off from one of the book pages. It doesn't give anything away about the book's contents and it's useful for me to see the chronology of the book's development in these adaptations of some of the illustrations; I posted another one today on my Heather Eliza blog. I'm working so flat-out on the book there hasn't been time for any new HEW drawings, but the aesthetic is so close to my drawings I decided to post it there. Thanks for visiting, see you soon!  I began working on lettering for two book illustrations of posters at the beginning of the week. My time was restricted to the evenings this week, because all efforts went into Cupar Arts Eden (I have written more about that on The Weekly at my Heather Eliza website), so I drew on my iPad. I wanted some embellishments for the lettering; once I was happy with the design I had a bit of fun and allowed it to grow beyond the letters all over the image, in a wild garden or Wind in the Willows theme, and played with clouds and patterns, enjoying the invention. After a few days I had built a nice little collection of lettering and patterns and discovered a lot of new ideas.
I also cleaned up an image for a header on my recently resurrected Twitter account @binkysark - enjoying being there again! By the end of the week which had been entirely indoors and digital, it was refreshing to pull out 4 little floral watercolours I painted a while ago. I am interested to see how watercolours on paper interact with lettering, clouds and willowy patterns created on iPad and shall experiment. I promised myself some time in my pop-up tent in the garden painting more flowery paintings influenced by surrounding plant life. That's just fantasy right now, because the weather forecast predicts heavy thundery showers with much surface water and possible flooding later tonight and all day tomorrow. Not really tent weather. Thanks for visiting, see you next week! |
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Welcome to my illustration blog! I usually post here on Wednesday, sometimes adding extras to keep a work journal.
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. Currently I am working on illustrating a children's book, pattern making, and setting up a Spoonflower shop. 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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May 2022
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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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