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.

• 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.
 

• 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 
Tuesday September 10 
Talk in room 2133 (Artists showing in gallery right now.)
James Wu, Farshid Namei and Gary Graham

Thursday September 11
Mark Eanes demo in room 2133
2:15-3:50

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

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.
 

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.

• 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
• Bring painting supplies, you will work the last hour

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

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 October 1
Workday Still Life Painting wet into wet

Wednesday November 26
Paint the human head from photograph.

Thursday November 27
Thanksgiving

Wednesday October 8
Workday Still Life Painting wet into wet

Wednesday December 3
Paint the human figure from photographs.

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

Monday December 10
Paint the human figure from photographs.
 

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

Talk about photorealism and grid and transfer.