Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Jan 16
White Slip Weed Cup 2
This is the largest of all six of this series, and can hold maybe sixteen ounces. It has a couple dots of blue glaze that got on there by mistake, but it’s still one of my favorite drinking vessels now.
Jan 12
White Slip Weed Cup 1
For the second set of weed cups, I first tried to scratch in the design and then fill it with white slip, using a metal rib tool to scrape it off. That didn’t work at all. My fellow ceramicists suggested that perhaps I had done it with the clay too wet (It was leather hard …
Jan 09
Smiley Ball 13
Another smiley-ball filler piece until I get a chance to finish my new books and photograph them.
Dec 25
Dark Smiley Ball
Experimenting with photography again. This time I used the speaker stands/tripods to suspend a spotlight about 8 inches above the piece. Husband and daughter held the other two spot lights, as non-diffused fill. On one hand, I think that the level of detail is acceptable, if not great, and the shadows aren’t distracting, but on …