STUDENT MATERIALS AND MEANS OF ACHIEVING OBJECTIVES:
Supplemental Text: Smith, Ray, The Artist's Handbook, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
There is an internet site created for your benefit at :  http://www.kenney-mencher.com

1. Demonstrate painting skills and concepts through a greater emphasis on space, color, expressive use of form, image and symbolism.
2. Solve problems of composition, form, content and intent in their painting.
3. Complete 5 or more paintings.

From the hardware store:

• Turpenoid odorless thinner (you may need to get this in an art supplies store)
• "Goop" waterless hand cleaner
• plaster or spackling knives
• 1" and 2" cheap natural bristle brushes
• a sheet of glass about 11x14" and a matching size piece of cardboard (cut from a box)
• a roll of masking tape
• A tool box or a cheap tackle box for use as an art box (you can use an old handbag, cardboard box, backpack etc.)

• Rags
• paper towels
• a roll of toilet paper is helpful too
• Saran Wrap or Handy Wrap
• an apron  or an old shirt
• a couple of tuna cans
• an old jar with a lid (from spaghetti sauce or mayonnaise around 26 ounces)

• 4-5 natural bristle brushes (flats are better and they should range in size from a size 10 "filbert" to a size size 2) (try not to pay more than $2.00 for each brush)
• 3-5 synthetic taklon or synthetic sable brushes (these should run around $5.00 to $20.00 each)  (cat's tongue or flats.  They should range in size from a size 10 "filbert" to a size size 2)
• Paints: (hues are OK) Windsor Newton Wintons, Rowney Georgian, Utrecht, or Gamblin are all very good paints. I suggest buying the largest student grade tubes you can afford. (around 225 ml)
• lamp black
• burnt sienna
• burnt umber or raw umber
• raw sienna
• yellow ochre
• cadmium yellow
• cadmium red
• alizarin crimson
• ultramarine blue
• cerulean blue
• payne's gray
• white (there are several different ones zinc white and or titanium white are fine)
• A small bottle of Linseed oil, and or Liquin or Galkyd painting medium
• 4-5 canvas boards or a pad of canvas paper
• 1 to 2 sets of stretcher bars somewhere between 11x14" and 18x24"
• canvas to match
• an 8 1/2" x 11" sketchbook or larger
• pencils, charcoal pencil, erasers, and charcoal

Optional
Sunday September 7 at 1PM
"The Secret Knowledge" Technique Talk and Demonstration at the Los Gatos Museum of Art
Art Museum in the Tait Firehouse 4 Tait Avenue at W. Main St. Los Gatos, CA 95030 408.354.2646

Referencing David Hockney's best selling tome on how Renaissance artists used the projected image, Kenney Mencher shows the audience his secrets.  Primarily how he uses a computer, an overhead projector and transparencies to project and establish a drawing on canvas.

• Value
• Demo- Painting the Basic Shapes 
• How to clean your brushes.
• Caravaggio
• The Baroque Style: The Caravaggisti
• Vermeer

• You paint in monochrome the basic shapes.
• Advanced students do this in perspective.

Optional 
Thursday September 11
Meet in Gallery at Smith Center
Artist's Talk and Demo with Mark Eanes

Wednesday September 17
Workday
Glaze Basic Shapes

Required
Saturday September 20th
Evening 7PM-8PM
Artist's reception for the realism show.  There is also a Circus in the Smith Center that night at 8 so you may want to buy tickets.

Optional
Sunday September 21 at 1PM
"How to get Ahead" at the Los Gatos Museum of Art
Art Museum in the Tait Firehouse 4 Tait Avenue at W. Main St. Los Gatos, CA 95030 408.354.2646

A quick one to two hour demonstration of how to paint the human head.  Mencher will show you how to mix flesh tones and how to lay the paint down.
 

• Demonstration of one and two point perspective on black board.
• Intro to Perspectives
• Demonstration of perspective in drawing still life
• You make a still life drawing in class in pencil or charcoal

• The Principles of Form and Design.  
• Intro to Still Life Painting
• Still Life demonstration ala prima style also called wet into wet

Using Windows and Adobe Photoshop Mencher shows you his tricks of how to use the computer to conceptualize and layout his paintings. 

Wednesday October 1
Workday Still Life Painting wet into wet

Wednesday October 8
Workday Still Life Painting wet into wet

Wednesday October 15
Cast painting either in burnt umber or black and white.

Wednesday October 22
Cast painting either in burnt umber or black and white

Talk about photorealism and grid and transfer.

• Please bring in a simple still life, landscape, cityscape, or car or machine photo.
• You can print this off the internet but you should then have two 8"x10" color images that are printed in photo mode on photopaper.
• You may also want to get a sheet of overhead transparency so that you can put the grid on the transparency rather than the photograph.
• Photorealism
• http://www.aliciastrose.com/f-process.html
• Please read
• Photorealism
• How I make a painting (Hat in Hand)
• How I revise and work out problems in my paintings.
• How I make a painting #2 (In Martini Vertas)
• You make a grid and transfer photo realist painting.

Wednesday October 29
Workday: You make a grid and transfer photo realist painting.
 

Wednesday November 5
Workday: You make a grid and transfer photo realist painting.

Tuesday November 11 no school
 

Wednesday November 12
Please bring in a sketchbook or paper and charcoal or pencils to draw  today.
The Human head and skull a Demonstration 3 views.
Rembrandt, Wyeth, Velasquez, Freud, and Tomb
Drawing today.

We go to the gallery at 11
David Tomb Talks in Gallery 11-12

Tuesday November 18
Last day to drop from full-term classes with a W grade

Wednesday November 19
Demo on how to paint the human head from photographs.
 

Wednesday November 26
Paint the human head from photograph.

Thursday November 27
Thanksgiving

Wednesday December 3
Paint the human figure from photographs.

Monday December 10
Paint the human figure from photographs.