Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Nov 16
Black Floral Beads
I took a class in lampworking that was to teach this floral technique. It makes very girly, feminine, frilly beads. I soon figured out that while the techniques were interesting (making a simple radially symmetrical cane and then using it to add details), I didn’t like the way the beads looked. Still, I thought I ought to …
Nov 14
Black Weed Book
I think I like this best of the books in the rainbow series. It’s predominantly red, which is one of my favorite colors, so that’s part of it. This was one of the first ones I finished, so I wasn’t terribly concerned about making it that different. I decided to just go with the background …
Nov 12
Lucky Number Book
Inspired by the previous book in the rainbow series, I decided I wanted to do some more lettering. It used to be that people who painted signs and drew ads had to paint the letters and numbers by hand, and they had to use both precision and creativity in designing their own fonts. I wanted …
Nov 10
Calligraphy/Black Wing book
This was another one of the rainbow series books, so-called because of the rainbow look of the tie-dyed/marble technique fabric I used for the base. After the layers of masking tape and washes, I had blocks of color, which I added stamps to. This one has silver rub-and-buff as accents. I wanted to try some …
Nov 08
Rainbow Coin Book
This was one of the series of books I made with the tie-dyed/marbling technique cloth as a base. You can see the faint impression of some of the collage background papers, for example, the joss paper. After I had the rainbow tie-dyed/marbled cloth with the colored paper back, I laid strips of masking tape over …