Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Dec 05
Yellow Porcelain Bowl
All of the glazes at the Tempe Arts Center are lead-free and high firing, so most of them are in a limited range of colors. This glaze is called “Steven Hill Yellow” and it’s almost always a dirty brown for me. On this white porcelain, however, it came out true to its name. I’m very …
Nov 30
Red-Glazed Porcelain Test cup 2
We use this bowl to give my youngest daughter soup. She’s the carbohydrate kid; she only likes cheese, fruit, and refined carbohydrates. I give her soup anyway, hoping eventually she’ll grow out of her pickiness. It’s a smallish bowl, and I adore the color.
Nov 14
Scraffito Cup Two
After the first scraffito cups details all got washed out in the high firing, i decided to make it easier on myself and use a simpler technique. I used a scratchboard tool to make fine vertical lines up and down the cup, and radiating out from the center of the saucer. Since I wasn’t trying to …
Nov 10
Crow Sculpture
I made this sculpture, like the falcon one, so that it would sit on a wall. I meant them originally to both be crows, but one started looking like a falcon so I went with it. I don’t like how chubby this looks. Crows do not perch on their bellies like this, I’m pretty sure, …