Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Nov 02
Bottlecaps 4
My favorite, of course, is the red one with the K in it. I also like how random the gold leaf turned out, and the familiarity of the watch buckle. Might see more watch parts, as we have quite a few broken watches and watch bands around here.
Oct 31
Bottlecaps 3
I finally got the resin working right in these. I managed to get some disposable graduated mixing cups from my dad, and when I scrupulously measured each part, it cured properly. I tried very hard to make the suspended doo-dads within the resin match the background. I particularly like the small mirror and the piece …
Oct 28
Bottlecaps 2
These bottlecaps were also thrown away because of a problem with improperly mixed resin. Pouring new resin on top of the uncured resin does not solve the problem. At least I have plenty of bottlecaps left.
Oct 26
Bottlecaps 1
I’ve been saving these bottlecaps for some unspecified future project for so long that I have quite a collection of them. Finally my idea coalesced into these. I cut circles of either scraps of old book covers (that I made) or pieces of decorative paper, or both. Then I found or made small ornaments to …
Oct 24
Butterfly Cane
I’ve been playing around with polymer clay, making miniature food for a shrine I’m working on. Will not be done for a couple of months, but I’ll post it here when it’s done. I wanted to do a really complex cane, something that looked like a picture, and this is the design I came up …