Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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Phoenix/Firebird Sign

My kids (one in particular) decided she wanted a phoenix for her room, because her friend had drawn her a picture once and it looked very pretty.  I didn’t know how to make a bird look like it was rising from the ashes, so instead I painted the one from one of my favorite folktales, …

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Dragon Sign

This is the sign for the dragon room.  I did a practice painting for this one, but I gave it away without photographing it first.  It looks very similar to this one. I’m unsatisfied with how the photograph turned out. I always heard that more light is better when it comes to photographing, but that’s …

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