Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Jan 15
Altered Book Cover Part Two
After the leather dried, I painted it with acrylic paint. They do sell dyes for leather, but the guy at Tandy, who was perfectly willing to sell me hundreds of dollars of crap I don’t need, said that acrylic would work just fine. I first painted the sun red, then painted over it with gold …
Jan 14
Altered Book Cover Part One
Here’s the cover I’m doing for my altered book. I used a piece of vegetable cured leather, 4-5oz.  I wanted to have the look of cord-bound book, so I wrapped plastic over the book (to protect it from water) then wound it with twine. I got the leather wet and stretched it over the twine to …
Jan 13
Altered Book
Altered Book 7Â Altered Book 6Â Altered Book 5Â Altered book 4Altered book 2 Altered book 1I started a round-robin altered book project with three other artists. Each of us chose a book and altered it in some way. I chose to alter the structure, and cut windows through the pages. I used paste and scraps of paper …
Jan 13
Blue and Violet glass
This glass is made with amethyst frit and cobalt frit. The cobalt turns an iridescent lavender when it’s incandescent hot. It reminds me of the pinkish-lavender that some cobalt based underglazes have.   It’s hard to see the color in this light, because it’s so dark, but it’s intense dark blue with dots of violet.
Jan 11
Amythest and Iris Gold glass
I like the Iris Gold color because it’s unpredictable. Sometimes it’s clear yellow, but it interacted with the amythest to create a shimmery blue in some lights. It reduces to a mirrored finish, like raku glazes, but I prefer it translucent.