Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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Variety is the Spice of Life

*So cute … and so utterly disgusting

Rainbow Script Postcard

 This is one of the few resist paper postcards where I feel like I made the best possible use of the resist. It’s painted on ink and paint over the white Tim Holz resist cardstock. Because some of it is paint and some of it is ink, I got to play with interesting juxtapositions of …

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Sleepless Nights, Bad Dreams

*Chickens don’t really get bags under their eyes.

Book Review: Will Storr Vs. the Supernatural

Will Storr vs. The Supernatural: One Man’s Search for the Truth About Ghosts by Will Storr When I first started reading this book, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it resembed ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD, a YA horror I read recently. Storr has an unusual writing style, very evocative, that sometimes borders more into fiction …

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Poppies on Map

 Drawing on maps was the thing that started me on this drawing phase. I’d seen some songbirds drawn with semi-translucent ink on maps as part of an illustration on a wall hanging at Ikea. So I started drawing birds on maps, then other things on other surfaces. Here’s a map, or, more accurately, not a …

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