Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Oct 26
Bottlecaps 1
I’ve been saving these bottlecaps for some unspecified future project for so long that I have quite a collection of them. Finally my idea coalesced into these. I cut circles of either scraps of old book covers (that I made) or pieces of decorative paper, or both. Then I found or made small ornaments to …
Oct 24
Butterfly Cane
I’ve been playing around with polymer clay, making miniature food for a shrine I’m working on. Will not be done for a couple of months, but I’ll post it here when it’s done. I wanted to do a really complex cane, something that looked like a picture, and this is the design I came up …
Oct 21
Blue Cane Beads
I don’t really like beads and bead jewelry, but I like making them. I made these (along with a handful of others, which my daughter used for a bracelet) to experiment with cane techniques. The beads could stand to be a little more even, but I don’t really want to use them for anything, so …
Oct 19
Ill-Fated Mixing Bowl
I wanted to make a set of three mixing bowls for my brother and his wife, as a belated wedding gift. I decided to use a technique involving a large wooden paddle that fellow student Michael Voda made. If it works, you can smoothly throw a large bowl with graceful sides. Unfortunately, you have to …
Oct 17
Green Diagonal Hatching bowl
This diagonal hatching is a pattern I’ve used frequently. I have a repertoire of patterns that work well on curved surfaces that I’ve built up after many years of decorating thrown pottery. I draw a grid in pencil, and then paint on the diagonal within the grid squares.