Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Feb 21
Bellisima Book
For this book cover, I started with orange printed calico over paper, and again did Rorschach-like blobs of black gesso on it. I wanted to try a photo transfer onto colored paper, so I chose a blue square with brown seedpods printed on it. The transfer worked fairlywell, and I glued it to the orange …
Feb 18
Portal Book
For the cloth of this book, I used thin, rainbow tie-dyed cotton. I added black gesso just as I did to the other two books in this series. Again I wanted to experiment with photo transfers, so I transferred the images of a poritco (front cover) and gate (back cover) using acrylic medium. I love …
Feb 15
Poem Book
I began this book by putting black gesso on to some printed calico in what I hoped were random patches. Once that was done, a book on photo transfers inspired me to attempt to transfer a photo. I found a photo of a landscape, and transferred it onto the cloth using a thin layer of …
Feb 12
Fountain
I originally made the base of this as a drum for my husband. I made two, actually, but this one had too-shallow of a shape, so he said he wasn’t going to use it. I decided, that since I’ve been planning to make a fountain for a while, that I would use this to make …