Still on the papery mono theme, I separated out some of the main motifs from the 'rivermoth' pattern (last week's post), tweaked them to suit, and designed a couple of extra motifs to accompany them to create two new patterns. I had noticed when I was working on the 5-colour version that each layer looked good when visibility on the other layers was toggled off; the space around each element was nice and I wanted to use it. I activated the spaces with
surrounding elements, adding little houses with puffing smoke and some delicate sprigs in the brown version, and curly clouds and some new flowers in the blue one. Mono versions of 'River Moth Tonight' (I haven't thought of a better way to name this pattern yet) designed for single colour. The top one has papery texture, the two are below speckled. It's always interesting to see how the graphic nature of a design works in single colours.
A redesign of my Crazy Daisies pattern for single colours. Shown here are versions in indigo on stone, and cream on chocolate which is based on a mono version of my vintage tie daisy pattern which I made in 2021. I thought I had posted an entry with the monochrome version of the vintage tie pattern when I made it, but when I went back through the archives to link to it I found I hadn't, so I have put it below. I made it in Procreate using the charm of a crayon brush, but later I made pristine versions of both the coloured and monochrome versions for printing on fabric.
Another day, another colourway and a new texture. I particularly like indigo and stone colours together, so I made a version of Crazy Daisies in just those two colours; plus a new loose-weave kind of hessian texture drawn up recently.
(PS I did something completely different with this texture over at Heather Eliza's blog!) Different patterns in matching colours: here is a mix of vintage daisy, the pattern I'm just calling 'shapes' until I think of a better name, and a combs pattern I've been working on this week - plus a very cute moth on a flower.
I stripped down this pattern to a flattened silhouette and really liked the simplicity. Another experiment in single colour - early days, and a little more detail in the floral motifs would be good, but so interesting!
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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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