Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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Golden Astrolabe Postcard

This one was meant to be more detailed, as it’s just a simple monoprint with gold paint over some gold and purple scrapbook paper (you can see the trailing line of dots–the theme was fairy tales.) I like it so much for its delicacy that I decided it was done.

Book Review: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big : Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams This isn’t a book for people who are seeking a great self-help book, it’s a book for people who really like Dilbert and are willing to read anything by the author. Half self-help book, …

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Moroccan Medium

 I made this postcard, as the other, with a stencil and some modeling paste and a pre-made postcard ground with black on one side and paler paper glued to the other. After I did it, I let it dry and then started layering different colors over it, which mostly stuck only to the raised surface. …

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Vincent’s Illness

Sadly, no known cure.

Cash Cow and Renaissance Man

 Here are four more bottlecap magnets I made. One of the things I found was that the background image had a more profound impact than the things embedded in it, unless the thing embedded in it was something cool like a pair of tiny scissors. That’s part of why I didn’t put anything in the …

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