Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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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 …
Feb 02
Smiling Face Ball
I got a new photography setup, so I thought I’d photograph some old pieces I had lying around in my studio. This piece is one of my favorites, because it’s comfortable to hold and has a nice weight to it, plus the face cheers me up. This is a high fired stoneware ball, b-mix with …
Jan 24
Greenman Barette
This is a present I made for Jane, whose birthday is tomorrow. My camera isn’t here right now, so I had to photograph it using the scanner instead. It would have scanned better if I had done it before gluing on the barette backing, but I think the detail came out well enough. This piece …
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 …