Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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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 …
Oct 09
Red-Glazed Porcelain Test cup 1
Bridget Cherie Harper made a batch of her own special porcelain for us to test. Pure white and throws like a dream even when only a few hours old. The glaze is cranberry, and it came out very red.
Oct 06
Blue-Green Bird Book
This is one of the books whose cover-creation process I chronicled in an earlier post. I finished up the green washes with blue acrylic printing, using commercially purchased rubber stamps. It feels a lot like cheating to use someone else’s art, but the commecrially produced rubber stamps are so convenient for so many techniques. Once …
Sep 27
Scraffito Cup and Saucer
These were porcelain cups that originally had handles except that they dried too fast and the handles got cracks, so I removed them and made them into tea bowls instead. I painted a thin black stain on it called “Seth’s Black Ink” after a ceramicist who uses this technique. After the stain dried, I scratched …
Sep 24
Smiley Ball 11
I certainly like the stronger background gradient with the new setup, but I’m going to have to fix that light issue with my next photo shoot. I’m thinking a spotlight suspended from two speaker stands, instead of a spotlight on either side.