Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Nov 03
Try Book
This is one of the books whose cover creation I chronicled in an earlier post. I started with scraps of cloth glued down on paper (a sheet from a manuscript) and layered washes of color over it in acrylic. For the final details, I used a mixture of blue acrylic paint and gel retarder and …
Oct 22
Red Wolf Book
Most of the making of this book I chronicled in an earlier post. I finished it with the weed-stamp on the back, using acrylic paint mixed with gel retarder (plain acrylic paint doesn’t work here, as it is too dry.) The face on the front is a linoblock I cut of myself using a photograph …
Oct 16
Unicorn Sign
Even though our bedroom is the master bedroom, and we’re not likely to change, the kids decided that our room needed to be named after a mythical creature as well. I chose the unicorn. I also noticed that you could say that each animal represents a different element, and that the unicorn would be earth. …
Oct 14
Big Smiley Ball
This is my largest smiley ball, and it was coil-built rather than built as two pinch-pots joined at the lip. It’s about fourteen inches in diameter. It looks slightly different now, because I painted it with iron-paint after I took this photo. The iron paint is a suspension of iron particles in an acrylic paint …