Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Jun 03
Smiley Ball 4
Some of these I left unglazed. I did this partly because I was running out of time to glaze, and partly because I thought I might paint some with iron-paint. I didn’t paint them with iron paint, but I did put the unglazed ones in the damp part of the garden, hoping that they might …
May 25
Strive Book
With this book I started once again with calico pasted to typing paper. The page was a sheet from an old manuscript, but the text is not visible. I tried to do a second print from the tree monoprint, but it didn’t take very well. I used an onion bag to put some texture on, …
May 17
Nightmares in Pleasant Dreams
This is a sign I made for the reading at Wiscon that some fellow writers and I are going to do. I started with an old piece of matboard that I’d painted with several layers of acrylic. I believe it had a basecoat of reddish brown, followed by gesso and sage green, but it was …
May 12
Lotus Skeleton Book
I’ve learned the that easiest book cover material is thin cotton adhered to a typing-weight paper back. So for these three books, (Remember book, Strive book and Lotus-skeleton book) I started out with three different calico-weight scraps of cloth and glued them onto misprinted pages. This piece of cloth is pink and red, and it …
May 06
Smiley Ball 3
This one had something weird happen with the glaze that makes it look diseased. It has thin bubbles that break when you touch them, leaving ridges that cut like obsidian. If it had been a functional piece, I would have had to get rid of it, but as garden art it works fine.