I am being shared between the upholstery section and the sewing cabin at work now, which means training in different equipment - today, it was the embroidery machine so I made a Binky!
There is no folder system as such in Procreate, but I do like the stack system where related works can be kept together and use it all the time. The trouble is, every time you pick up a new image to go into a stack the stack loses its title and defaults to 'Stack' and it's easy to get confused and waste time looking for something. I know I'm not going to have much time to spare in the coming months as I start full-time work tomorrow (fortunately in a place I love, and doing work I thoroughly enjoy) so I spent a little time this week designing new covers for stacks to make them easily identifiable. This makes it quick and easy to pick up work where I last left off and squeeze in as much time as I can.
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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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