Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Feb 15
Poem Book
I began this book by putting black gesso on to some printed calico in what I hoped were random patches. Once that was done, a book on photo transfers inspired me to attempt to transfer a photo. I found a photo of a landscape, and transferred it onto the cloth using a thin layer of …
Feb 12
Fountain
I originally made the base of this as a drum for my husband. I made two, actually, but this one had too-shallow of a shape, so he said he wasn’t going to use it. I decided, that since I’ve been planning to make a fountain for a while, that I would use this to make …
Feb 05
Spacer Beads
Here are the spacer beads I made, again with the not-likely-to-be-realized idea that I might actually string these into a necklace or something. I made them four at a time, and made them as small as I could. They are approximately 3/8 inches in diameter. The other picture is all the beads, before they’d been …
Feb 01
Blue and White Beads
These are the beads I did after lunch, figuring that now I could try a different technique using different colors. I didn’t make as many after lunch. For this I mostly used dots and masking. My dots are not placed very well, because I don’t have the muscle control sufficient to hold my hands in …