 At the beginning of the week, I really wanted to hurry spring along when we had a beautiful burst of sunlight and calm between storms. I noticed that the sea crests I was working with the week before suggested a rhythm or even a pattern, so I created this riverside scene with spring flowers and swallows. It's just a sketch at the moment, but it shows promise when arranged in a brick repeat (I'm a huge fan of those), so I may be working it into a nice clean pattern for reproduction in the near future.  Then the winds came in in big, blustery gusts - far too violent to be flying kites, but it did put me in mind of lovely breezy days on the hills with our kites as youngsters. Above is a work I created called 'Kite Party' with pareidolia critters last year, but I never resolved it or posted it anywhere; so I got it out again, refreshed it with a lovely green hillside (with polka dots, of course), and rejigged some of the critters - and here we have a celebration of breezy (not hurricane) weather. It was actually so windy the dog was terrified during the stormy nights, and we had to move her bed further away from the fireplace where she usually sleeps because of the wind booming in the chimney. I personally love that sound, so cosy, but it did get rather loud and scary at times.  Now, I have been moving back into pattern-making mode recently. I found the kites from the 'Kite Party' illustration very interesting. I separated them from the rest of the work, made clean drawings which should print well, and arranged them in a brick repeat. I actually really like this, in fact I fancy the grey-green colourway in the middle as wallpaper for our downstairs loo.
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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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