Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Feb 13
Blue and Orange Book
With digital images, you can layer almost anything over anything, and you can adjust the translucency by minuscule percentages and back again. With physical layers, it’s much harder. One way you can add texture is by using printing. This diamond/spiral pattern is from some plastic texture plates designed for this purpose. I also used these …
Feb 11
Book Review: One Man’s Wilderness
One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith I didn’t know anything about this book going into it, but I imagine it’s considered a classic of the wilderness-survival memoir subgenre. The author (that is, Pronneke, about whom the book was written, not Keith, who compiled and edited it) was 50 years old in 1969 …
Feb 10
Aromatherapy Keyholes 3
This is the last chunk of the aromatherapy pendants I made. I believe that the crown lacks a hole to string a necklace through, so maybe I’ll use that for some other purpose. I sent some of these to my friend Sarah, who offered to help copyedit Changer’s Turf (my most recent novel). She …