Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

Author's posts

Feb 27

The Object of His Affection

By Kater in Comic, Coop de Grace

cat, chicken, chicken comic, interspecies romance, love, rabbit

Feb 26

I think this is my favorite one. I drew the blackbird on more of Tim Holz’s textured paper, this one brown kraft paper with ruled lines on it like a schoolbook. I drew it and inked it in and cut it out and pasted it onto the rather mediocre monoprint of gold on the florentine …

acrylic, blackbird, collage, fairy tale, gel monoprint, golden, monoprinting

Feb 24

Book Review: Anna Dressed in Blood

By Kater in Book Review

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Just when I thought that the mini-genre of dark fantasy YA couldn’t be mined for anything else, something comes along like this took that charms the pants off me. How could you fail to be entranced when it opens with a teenage ghost hunter picking up a dead …

creepy, dead, ghost, ghost hunter, romance, scary, urban legent, ya

Feb 23

Jolly Mushroom

By Kater in alternart, Art

The bottlecap on the left I made using a piece of Trader Joe’s Chai tea box. My kids prefer that tea, and I like the peacock inside the flap. I still have a thing for peacocks. The mushroom on the right one, I made out of paper clay for a shrine I made for my friend. …

bottlecap, chai, magnet, mushroom, peacock, resin

Feb 20

Everyone Loves Vincent

By Kater in Comic, Coop de Grace

affection, chicken comic, crush, hen, love, rabbit