I had some fun designing a continuous pattern with twigs and blossoms for my Granny's Attic collection on Redbubble. Anyone who does jigsaw puzzles will know the satisfaction and joy of putting in the pieces and making it work! Once I thought up the outrageous name of "Twiggy Bloomers" it absolutely stuck, so please allow me to present my new range below, in grey.
Total snow-melt and a bit o' sunshine is a heady mix! I went mad with spring themes this week, using lots of daffodil yellows and fresh winter rose white with light stony greys. Delighted I made a brocade drawing from last year into a proper pattern, too, and put it to good use, I'm going to have to buy my own leggings now. And a mask and backback. Yup, I'm my own best customer.
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!
And below is another simple outline drawing put into repeat - cool and chintzy. There's nothing like a Valentine's card to say Spring will come around again soon. I designed this for Instagram and sent it to B.
I started working on roundels like this in 2019 and never used them for anything. I have been pulling out different drawings this week to put into repeat with some surprising and interesting results, and found them during the process. My interest was rekindled when I saw possibilities for densely figured patterns. I think at the time I didn't really know what they were, so they got shelved until now. I had forgotten all about them, but now I think they resemble crocheted mats and I see good possibilities for my Granny's Attic collection in my Redbubble shop.
This week I began to organise my new patterns into collections for my Redbubble shop. It's a useful thing to do because I can group themes together and be inspired to produce work to harmonise; as my main interest is in interior design, I can visualise throw pillows, blankets and duvets with differing patterns working together in a calm and quiet way. I am keeping 'scrapbooks' like this one on the side while I'm designing ranges, which suggest ideas and combinations for new works.
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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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