Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Mar 15
Fox Tile
I don’t have anything finished right now, so I thought I would post some tiles that I made last year. These are hand made tiles, slip trailed with neutral colored slip from a jacquard bottle. After I bisque fired them, I used the slip trails as a border for the glazes. If I were to do …
Mar 12
Firebird Book
I made this book because I wanted to experiment with leather covers. The leather is a bit thicker than I would have liked (6-7oz) but that thickness is supposed to be superior for tooling. The design is based on one of my favorite fairy tales “Ivan and the Firebird”. On the cover, the firebird is …
Mar 10
Brown Circle Book
This is one of my handmade books approx. 3 X4 ” and 1/2″ thick. It has a collaged cloth and paper cover, with sewn embellishment. (I didn’t make the embellishment.)
Mar 05
Green Buckle Book
To create the cover of this book, I first started by stamping onto a piece of muslin. You can see the postmarks of the stamp in the upper right hand corner. After the pigment had dried, I attached the muslin to the semitransparent green fabric with acrylic medium. I sewed the copper beads on before …
Feb 29
Making of a Book
This is a how to of how I make books. I do it very differently from other people. For one, I don’t have that loom-like contraption that most books on hand-binding feel is essential. The books I make are around 3X4 inches, so I am able to hold the entire block in my hands easily. 1. …