Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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Two Birds Postcard

 I think my original intent was to cut these birds out afterwards and paste them onto another piece of paper, but I never did. The feet are always problematic. I’m not even sure what kind of birds these are. A jay and a…something. I altered the colors based on “inks that I own that aren’t …

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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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