Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Dec 11
Book Review: Catherine the Great-Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie I usually don’t read biography, but two disparate people recommended this to me in the space of two weeks, so I decided to make an exception. As you might expect, this book is about Catherine II of Russia, one of the most powerful and …
Dec 08
Fish Scale Indigo Shirt
I made this because I wanted to play with resist and indigo. I had made another shirt using Rit dye, which turned out horribly, and was advised it was because it was a new, unwashed shirt that still had sizing on it. So I took some cheap 1005 cotton shirts and washed them and set …
Dec 01
Angel Icon Tile
This was the last, biggest tile from Laurie Mika’s workshop this summer at Art Unraveled. One of the things I love most about Laurie Mika’s work is her saintly icons. I always wondered how she did them, how she got all the cool painted faces. Simply enough, she prints them out and cuts them up …