Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Feb 05
Spacer Beads
Here are the spacer beads I made, again with the not-likely-to-be-realized idea that I might actually string these into a necklace or something. I made them four at a time, and made them as small as I could. They are approximately 3/8 inches in diameter. The other picture is all the beads, before they’d been …
Feb 01
Blue and White Beads
These are the beads I did after lunch, figuring that now I could try a different technique using different colors. I didn’t make as many after lunch. For this I mostly used dots and masking. My dots are not placed very well, because I don’t have the muscle control sufficient to hold my hands in …
Jan 28
Black and Turquoise beads
I took a beadmaking class in December, and got my beads back recently. We were working on stringer techniques, so I tried to use the same simple techniques with the same colors figuring that it was A. good practice and B. might make enough beads for a piece of jewelry. I rarely string my beads, …
Jan 24
Raku Woman
This is a piece I did in high school. It’s raku fired, which accounts for the carbon trappings. The piece is merely a cylinder of clay, altered to make it interesting, with a loop like a handle on top. I really love this piece, and tried to duplicate it in 2003 without much success. I …