Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Feb 15
Wrinkled Blue-Green Vase
This is one of my latest vases from class. The wrinkling on the sides is unintentional. I think I’ve discovered the cause: I’m going in too far to the gloryhole when I’m trying to heat just the lip, and it’s making the vessel wrinkle. I had two, the other was nearly identical to this, but …
Feb 11
Shino Dragon Cups
These are two cups I made, nearly identical, with the dragon motif. They are only two and a half inches tall. I did the design by painting on wax resist, then dipping in shino. The other cup turned out much darker, nearly black with trapped carbon. The darker cup, unfortunately, got broken . Same clay (Coleman …
Feb 07
Fox and Grapes Cup
This is a small porcelain vessel I made, approximately three inches tall, showing one of the problems I had with painted underglaze. The underglaze designs are a lot more detailed before the glaze is added. Later I tried to correct this by spraying, which mars the design less, but ends up being thinner, which makes for …
Feb 04
Porcelain vessel with cobalt: rabbit and fox
This is another of the series of porcelain vessels with cobalt I made a couple years ago. See ‘lidded porcelain vessel with cobalt: fox-man and crows’ for description of technique.
Feb 03
Lidded porcelain vessel with cobalt: fox-man and crows
This is one of a series of porcelain vessels I made a couple years ago. I’ve been using powdered cobalt on porcelain bisque fired to cone 04. One of the things we tried, in order to reduce fading, was to fire it again before glazing. It didn’t work very well. I also tried spraying on …