8 SEPTEMBER

8/9/2019

Getting ready for autumn, we cut back the sweet pea climber in the garden this week, and I found a horde of treasures lurking at its base: curly dried up tendrils, leaf skeletons, twisty stalks etc. I tried to take photos of them but it wasn't working - frustrating, when I could see the beauty, but the camera just noted a messy pile.

I remembered in July 2010 I experimented with placing flowers directly on the scanner, covering them with a black T-shirt and making scans. I loved the old-mastery results.

I tried doing the same with the sweet pea hoard with excellent result. Every curly tendril, skeleton and wizened thing captured in the bright pass perfectly.

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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