Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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Sparrow Sketch

This sparrow sketch would have worked great as an independent image, that is, if I had cut it out from the paper and pasted just the bird onto another background. I should probably still do that. I love when other people do that kind of combination of patterns and illustrations, but I just didn’t. I …

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Blue Jay and Chintz

Here’s another bird drawing that I did while on the phone. I sketched it with the pen I usually write with, my favorite uniball vision elite, and when I got home I finished inking it in with a brush and some liquid blue ink. I’d hoped that the background patter would have made more of …

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Blue Hex, Blue Jay

Birds and Bees Monoprint

Book Review: Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls

Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris I think this is the strongest book David Sedaris has written. Maybe it’s because I listened to it as an audiobook (narrated/performed by the author) instead of reading it, which always helps the humor along. It’s sectioned into essays on various topics, each one about 30 minutes. …

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