16 JUNE

16/6/2019

Mixing it up, adding non-observational elements to drawings.
If you would like to read about how I both flooded my kitchen and had a fire in it, visit The Weekly on my illustration site Binky McKee.

My aim is to use unrelated mark-making alongside observational drawing in order to enhance its story, and, as always, to describe the secret world of the object and its connections which tell of it leading quite a different life than we would suppose. Just as in my previous works such as Brave Oleander or Before There Were Saturdays (links to images on this site) this is a world of spirited wonder which exists in things we take for granted, yet can impact our lives and change them for ever.
As always,
Thanks for visiting, see you next week!

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I work a LOT in sketchbooks and always have several on the go. My dad was an architect and naval draughtsman, and after he died in 2017 I found heaps of old templates while clearing out his study. Always having been an avid collector of shapes, at the beginning of this year I bought a WHSmith A5 diary to use as a sketchbook specifically for work based on them.

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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
If you would like to visit my Binky website, please click the picture above.

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Candle-light shadows. I set up little 'night theatres' in my bedroom. As darkness falls, I light strategically placed candles and watch the plays begin. A perfect activity for the darkest days of winter.

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