Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

Most commented posts

  1. “Emily’s Fifth Birthday” and “Alternative Medicine” — 16 comments
  2. Seeing Things, Part 1: The Big Idea — 10 comments
  3. Seeing Things, Part 8: First cover mockups — 10 comments
  4. Seeing Things, Part 11: paper books and cover design fallout — 9 comments
  5. First Stained Glass Panel — 8 comments

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Two Sparrows

These two sparrow drawings I did during a boring phone call with my favorite pen (Uniball Vision elite) on scraps of paper I’d brought to work. After I got them home, I inked them in the rest of the way. The top one is Tim Holz’s textured printed kraft paper, and the bottom is from …

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In the Face

*This is the only explanation I could come up with for his behavior.  

Stars and Hexes

 Both of these were done with acrylic and rubber stamps.

Book Review: Protecting the Gift

Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe by Gavin de Becker My rating: 3 of 5 stars I bought this book based on how valuable and life-changing Gift of Fear was. I figured it would be a great alternative to constantly nagging my girls to read Gift of Fear for themselves. Unlike Gift of …

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Book Review: City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age

City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by P.D. Smith I got this as an audiobook, and in the introduction he mentions that it’s not meant to necessarily be read end to end, but rather that you can skip around, much as you would in a city. Perhaps that would have made it a better …

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