Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Nov 14
Scraffito Cup Two
After the first scraffito cups details all got washed out in the high firing, i decided to make it easier on myself and use a simpler technique. I used a scratchboard tool to make fine vertical lines up and down the cup, and radiating out from the center of the saucer. Since I wasn’t trying to …
Nov 10
Crow Sculpture
I made this sculpture, like the falcon one, so that it would sit on a wall. I meant them originally to both be crows, but one started looking like a falcon so I went with it. I don’t like how chubby this looks. Crows do not perch on their bellies like this, I’m pretty sure, …
Nov 03
Try Book
This is one of the books whose cover creation I chronicled in an earlier post. I started with scraps of cloth glued down on paper (a sheet from a manuscript) and layered washes of color over it in acrylic. For the final details, I used a mixture of blue acrylic paint and gel retarder and …