Painting

Oil painting was a new medium for me this semester. I had never worked in it before taking the class here at CU. It still frustrates me a lot, as I am not used to using paint at all, especially oil. But the work from class today was exciting (live model!) and I had spent Sunday in the Prentis wood shop building my own stretcher bars. Luckily Tracy and Brie were there to help rip down the 2x4 on the table saw, I could never have done it without their help! Anyway, besides being excited to have a canvass I built all myself, I liked the beveled edges and the large size (57x42) which was liberating to work on with the addition of large hardware store brushes. Far from finished, I am still proud of this painting!

Shrimp sounds- do sea creatures make noise?

Writing about art

Last night during senior visual art major's seminar we had an art critic come give a talk about reviewing shows. This reminded me that I did a few art exhibit reviews for the Columbia undergraduate newspaper a while back in 2009 (thanks to Hannah Yudkin, the then art editor, who gave me that opportunity!). I wanted to share them on here, so this is the link to the Columbia Daily Spectator's website with my articles on it:

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/contributors/hannah-kligman

Yellow Shafted Northern Flicker

dry point etching on zinc plate, printed in burnt umber ink, 2011