Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Sep 03
I finally got around to printing the pepper linocut tonight. My first mistake was to put down too much black ink. It turned out goopy, and the detail didn’t come out well. Also, I think that it looks better with red, because the solid one was a red pepper, and the lighter one was a …
Aug 26
This is my latest page in the art journal I’m sharing with my sister. I used copies of the notes I took at Clarion for the background, and the brown paper are tea-stained scraps of two short stories I wrote. The title of the piece is Rewriting: An Armful of Tomatoes. My analogy is that …
Aug 22
Here’s what I did with the tomato sketch I drew yesterday. I hope to add color with some markers, but I have to wait for the block printing ink to dry. Look for pear and pepper linocuts in a few days!
Aug 21
I went grocery shopping today, and bought a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables. The pluots are especially beautiful, but their speckled skin won’t work well as a lino cut. These sketches are going to eventually become lino cuts (three of them, anyway).
Aug 20
My sister and I have been working on a pair of Art Journals for over a year now. I made some 140lb watercolor signatures, and we each created our own covers. Then we’ve taken turns mailing the books back and forth to each other, so every other page is by the other person. Here’s the …
