Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Jun 02
Gold Japanese Book
For this book cover I started by gessoing over cotton cloth. Then I impressed in the wet gesso with some stamps. There’s a crysanthemum, a cherry branch, and a geisha, as well as something that looks like a stylized five pointed blossom. When the gesso dried, I painted over it with greenish and gold metallic …
May 30
Scribo Crow Book
This book has endpapers that resemble shiny aubergine colored cloth. Its cover has a base of gessoed cotton. I wanted to use collage images, but I’m finicky about stealing work from others, so I used stuff I had lying around. The words are lines from my short story ‘Emily’s Fifth Birthday’ cut into strips and …
May 17
Colored Glass Fish
Once I got my colored rods, I went crazy with practicing making fish. These took me several hours to make.
May 11
Glass Bottles
These are small glass bottles I made in borosilicate class. They are quite challenging to make, which is most of the reason I’m fond of them.