Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Aug 14
Porcelain Teabowls-unfinished
These tea bowls are thrown from coleman’s porcelain. I wanted to make a series of teabowls and then chinapaint surreal images on them. Unfortunately, I forgot that you shouldn’t throw composite pieces in the summer, as they dry too quickly. Even painting wax on the joints and wrapping it tightly wasn’t enough to keep the …
Aug 06
Flat Blue Bowl
This bowl is also thrown in Soldate 60, a groggy durable clay. It’s fired to cone 10 with “Oasis Blue” overglaze. In this photo, it’s been tipped up to display the inside better. It is ten inches in diameter and three inches in height.
Aug 02
Red Pitcher
I’m still not done with the shrine I’m working on, but I got some pieces out of the kiln today, so I’ll post those. This is a thrown stoneware (Soldate 60) pitcher high fired with “Cranberry” glaze. I made it so that I’d have something heat resistant to make ice-tea in, as I was tired …
Jul 24
Nineteenth Century Swallow Shrine
I spent last weekend assembling the base components for three more shrines, and today I finished decorating one of them. I was originally going to have three shelves inside, each with something on it, but instead I experimented with multi-layered collage. In the far background is a piece of a landscape. Originally I painted it …
Jul 17
Encaustic adventures
Every time I see a new artistic technique or medium I have the urge to try it. Such it is with encaustic, using colored wax. I thought this would be a fun project to do with my children, becasue for the pigment we used crayons, and who doesn’t like crayons? Since we were experimenting, the …