Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Jan 28
Black and Turquoise beads
I took a beadmaking class in December, and got my beads back recently. We were working on stringer techniques, so I tried to use the same simple techniques with the same colors figuring that it was A. good practice and B. might make enough beads for a piece of jewelry. I rarely string my beads, …
Jan 24
Raku Woman
This is a piece I did in high school. It’s raku fired, which accounts for the carbon trappings. The piece is merely a cylinder of clay, altered to make it interesting, with a loop like a handle on top. I really love this piece, and tried to duplicate it in 2003 without much success. I …
Jan 16
White Slip Weed Cup 2
This is the largest of all six of this series, and can hold maybe sixteen ounces. It has a couple dots of blue glaze that got on there by mistake, but it’s still one of my favorite drinking vessels now.
Jan 12
White Slip Weed Cup 1
For the second set of weed cups, I first tried to scratch in the design and then fill it with white slip, using a metal rib tool to scrape it off. That didn’t work at all. My fellow ceramicists suggested that perhaps I had done it with the clay too wet (It was leather hard …
Jan 09
Smiley Ball 13
Another smiley-ball filler piece until I get a chance to finish my new books and photograph them.