Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Apr 30
48 Birds #8: The Crow and the Golden Pear
For this piece, I also began with a gesso resist under a wash of acrylic, using a rubber stamp of a pear. You can still barely see the imprint of the pear just under the crow’s shoulder. After pasting on scraps of greenish textured paper and repeating washes of red-iron-oxide colored paint, I decided it …
Apr 21
48 Birds #7: Half Flight
I started out with the gesso resist. I used a greenish wash in the background, with a Victorian bookplate design stamp providing the resist. Since I almost always stick to blue+orange as my color theme, I decided to vary it and go with a sage green+red iron oxide color theme. I did a wash of …
Apr 14
Smiley Ball 1
I’m going to use pictures of my smiley balls as filler when I don’t have another 48 birds or other 2D art to share. They’re high fired, hand built spheres, and I made ten of them. They are in the garden now, making me smile whenever I see them. I think I would like to …
Apr 10
48 Birds #6 Who Has Fled the Garden?
I started out with a gesso resist technique, using a wash of light brown and a stamped gesso design. Honestly I can’t remember how it looked, except that I made the mistake of thinking I’d draw a picture on the background and use it as a springboard for another design. There’s a school of thought …