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.
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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.    Three drawings this week: a Peruvian gourd which rattles when shaken, an enamel doggy box which is partner to the one I drew last week, and a depiction of the inside of a favourite bowl, but flattened out. I worked by turning the bowl in my hand and allowing the pattern to run straight in my drawing.
 A week of rather dismal weather kept me indoors most days, so I decided to draw some of my favourite objects around the house. I discovered it is really hard to draw toys! Here are two Peruvian dolls my friend brought back for me from a stay in Peru, a little enamel box painted with a charming Spaniel, the most adorable little loved-up 1950s Merrythought bear (with bells in his ears!), and carved and painted wooden cats and a dog which sit on a shelf with their legs hanging over the edge. I hope you enjoy my shared treasures! Thanks for visiting, see you next week!  This week has been no less disruptive than last week. A further string of unpredictable and unusual events of "what are the chances" nature cropped up.
These drawings were what came out of it, though. 4 great things this week: - 6 views of a dried up chestnut, trying to work out how the first root and sprout come out of the kernel - a peony tree fruit exposed after its petals fell - what was inside the dried up chestnut when I picked off the shell - a small, gnarly apple tree in the garden.  I am obsessed with irises in the garden at the moment: buds transforming into baroque beauty, and the weirdness of the tubers which tirelessly sprout these miracles at the end of each winter. When I draw I like to try and understand how it all works. Similarly, I enjoyed drawing a bunch of rusty old keys I found, exploring how the keys were made and imagining their action.
The sun is shining, so I am going into the garden again! 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!)
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Mug design from a sketchbook from c2003 when I was studying ceramics at Barnet College
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September 2020
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A 2013 work book, still very much in use 
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