Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: All Classes
Classroom Objectives:
· The most important factor in my art class is participation and attendance, due to the nature of the course
· Grading will be based on the daily assignments
Outside of classroom:
- Maintain a notebook with handouts and notes from lectures
- Build a portfolio to be reviewed at the end of term so individual progress and growth can be seen and assessed, emphasizing the learning process and final results, including instructor generated assignments from various media (films, books, masterworks)
- Go to a museum and two galleries to observe various artists’ work in person
- Opportunity to Participate in the Annual Student Art Show at the Fullerton College Gallery
- Participate in the Annual “Artist in Residence” program
Note: Please expect to bring materials to first class. Lockers available from the office for your convenience, small fee, need lock
· Turn Off Cell Phones during class
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: Basic Drawing 182
Objectives:
Learn to use drawing materials such as graphite, charcoal, and ink to create representations of objects, forms, light, and space in both technical and expressive ways, with emphasis on personal improvement and growth.
Materials List: See attached list
Suggested Textbook:
· Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain - Edwards
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: Beginning Life Drawing 186AF
Learning to draw from the human figure, emphasizing the development of a basic understanding of gesture, structure, anatomy, and movement, through the use of the skeleton and life model.
Class Title: Intermediate Life Drawing 186 BF
Learning to draw from the human figure, emphasizing the refinement of basic skills, and the understanding of gesture, structure, anatomy, and movement, through the use of the skeleton and life model.
Class Title: Advanced Life Drawing 186 CF
Learning to draw from the human figure, emphasizing a focused review of previous drawing exercises, the refinement of technique and advanced studio problems, and the advanced understanding of gesture, structure, anatomy, and movement, through the use of the skeleton and life model.
Materials List: See attached list
Primary Textbook:
· Basic Figure Drawing Techniques – Greg Albert (ISBN#0-89134-551-5)
Suggested Textbooks:
· Natural Way to Draw – Nicolaides
· Life Drawing – Joseph Shepherd
· Atlas of Anatomy for Artists - Schider
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: Beginning Painting 189 AF
Objectives:
Approaching painting as a creative process while developing the elementary skills of painting as a means of self-expression, emphasizing the development of a basic understanding of the fundamentals of composition, color theory and mixing, and learning to work with the materials.
Class Title: Intermediate Painting 189BF
Objectives:
Approaching painting as a creative process, while developing additional skills using painting as a means of self-expression, as well as developing skills in using painting techniques and media, including oil and/or acrylic paints, and emphasizing the development of an understanding of composition, color theory and mixing, and skill development. Exploration of individual style is encouraged.
Class Title: Advanced Painting 189 CF
Objectives:
A study of advanced painting problems, stressing experimentation, traditional, and contemporary painting composition and methods, while continuing to develop additional skills using painting as a means of self-expression with emphasis on the development of a body of work that explores concepts and materials, exploration of individual style is encouraged.
Materials List: See attached list
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: Beginning Watercolor 187 F
Objectives:
Approaching painting as a creative process while developing the elementary skills of painting as a means of self-expression, emphasizing the development of a basic understanding of the fundamentals of composition, color theory and mixing, and learning to work with the materials in a wide variety of traditional and contemporary techniques.
Class Title: Intermediate Watercolor 188 F
Objectives:
Approaching painting as a creative process while continuing to develop the skills of painting as a means of self-expression, emphasizing the development of an understanding of composition, color theory and mixing, and learning to work with the materials in a wide variety of traditional and contemporary techniques.
Class Title: Advanced Watercolor 189 F
Objectives:
A study of advanced painting problems, stressing experimentation, traditional, and contemporary painting composition and methods, while continuing to develop additional skills using painting as a means of self-expression with emphasis on the development of a body of work that explores concepts and materials, exploration of individual style is encouraged.
Materials List: See attached list
Suggested Textbook(s):
Watercolor Secrets – by Tom Lynch
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: All Classes
Suggested reading:
- Pastel – Daniel E. Greene
- All about Techniques in Pastel – Barron’s
- Basic Portrait Techniques – Rachel Wolf
- Drawing the Human Head – Burne Hogarth
- The Big Book of Drawing & Painting the Figure – Muntsa Calbo I Angrill
- The Human Figure – John Vanderpoel
- The Natural Way to Draw – Kimon Nicolaides
- Figure Drawing - Nathan Goldstein
- Anatomy for the Artist – Jeno Barcsay
- Keys to Drawing – Bert Dodson
- The Elements of Color – Itten
- Color in Contemporary Painting – Charles Le Clair
- History of Color in Painting – Faber Birren
- Mainstreams of Modern Art – John Canaday
- Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to Present – Daniel Wheeler
- Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: All Classes
Partial list of Museums:
(show your student ID for possible discounts)
Bowers Cultural Museum - http://www.bowers.org
Huntington Library, art collections and botanical gardens - http://www.huntington.org
LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art - http://www.lacma.org/
Norton-Simon Museum of Art - http://www.nortonsimon.org
OCMA – Orange County Museum of Art - http://ocma.net/
San Diego Museum of Art – Balboa Park, San Diego, CA - http://www.sdmart.org
J. Paul Getty Museum Center - http://www.getty.edu/visit
UCLA Hammer museum of Art and Cultural Center - http://www.hammer.ucla.edu
Timken Museum of Art – Balboa Park, San Diego, CA - http://www.timkenmuseum.org/
Partial list of Galleries:
Muckenthaler – Fullerton - http://www.muckenthaler.org/
Timken Museum Gallery – Balboa Park, San Diego, CA - http://www.timkenmuseum.org/
Around Orange County - http://www.laokay.com/ArtGalleries_oc
At LA - http://www.at-la.com/@la-muse
So. Cal. Map - http://artscenecal.com/Maps
Orange County Art Galleries - http://www.orangecounty.net/html/artgall
Useful Websites include:
Google image search
Artlex.com
OCAIW.com
Mark Harden’s Artchive
Gallery.euroweb
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - http://www.sfmoma.org
Louvre - http://www.louvre.fr
Guggenheim - http://www.guggenheim.org
24 Hr. Museum - http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk
Diego Rivera web museum - http://www.diegorivera.com
Andrew Wyeth - http://www.brandywinemuseum.org
Hermitage - http://www.hermitagemuseum.org
Whitney Museum of American Art - http://www.whitney.org
Art on the Net - http://www.art.net/
There are many more helpful sites, try a general search for an artist or a specific artwork. All museums have websites and many artists and galleries have websites, as well. On campus computers go to GroveArt.
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: All Classes
Partial List of Art Materials Suppliers:
(Call to verify changes in locations – Ask if a Student Discount is available)
“The Brush Man” – Discount brushes at Fullerton Campus, hours posted each term
Fullerton College Bookstore – Student Services Building (2000)
Michaels, Fullerton, CA (714) 992-9272 - http://www.michaels.com
Aaron Brothers Art & Framing - http://www.aaronbrothers.com
- 1150 S. Harbor, Fullerton, CA (714) 680-3345
- Imperial Hwy. & Beach Blvd., La Mirada, CA
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com
(books, some other painting supplies)
Art Supply Warehouse (310) 594-9641 or (714) 891-3626
6672 Westminster Ave., Westminster, CA 92683 - Catalogue
http://www.aswexpress.com
The Art Store (714) 250-7353 - 4040 Campus Drive, Irvine - http://www.artstore.com
(now a part of Dick Blick)
Dick Blick Art Supply – Catalogue
http://www.dickblick.com
Cheap Joe’s – Catalogue - http://www.cheapjoes.com
Daniel Smith – Catalogue - http://www.danielsmith.com
Dharma Trading Co. - http://www.dharmatrading.com
(pfd fabric, untreated/ready to paint blanks, canvas)
Pearl Art Supply (714) 903-5100 or Los Angeles (310) 854-4900
7227 Edinger Ave., Huntington Beach, CA
http://www.pearlpaint.com
Sterling Art (949) 553-0101 - http://www.sterlingart.com
18871 Teller Ave., Irvine, CA 92612
Utrecht (310) 478-5775 - Catalogue - http://www.utrechtart.com
11677 Santa Monica Blvd., W. Los Angeles, CA 90025
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Watercolor Supply List:
- Watercolor paper – Cold press - 22”x30” sheets (cutter available in class)
- Watercolor brushes – Wide flat (min. 1”), rounds size 8 and 10
- Watercolor palette – Robert E. Wood large covered palette preferred
- Watercolor paints – set of tube paints preferred
- Wide (1 ½” to 2”) tape - blue removable preferred
- Frisket type resist, or rubber cement
- Chopstick
- Foam core board
Other Supplies:
- Small scissors
- Container of salt
- Small white candle or piece of uncolored wax
- Sponge
- Small spray bottle for water
- Working mat in the size you work in
- Pencil & kneaded eraser
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Oil Painting Supply List:
Paints – Oil studio tubes 1.25 oz. or Large
- Indian red
- Yellow ochre
- Raw umber & Burnt umber
- Burnt sienna
- Ivory or Mars black
- Cerulean blue
- Cobalt blue
- Viridian green
- Pthalo green & Phalo blue
- Ultramarine dark blue
- Cadmium red light, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium yellow light, Cadmium yellow deep
- Dioxazine purple
- Alizarin crimson
- Cadmium red light
- Ivory black
- Flake or Titanium white (large tube)
Brushes – Hogs hair bristle brushes of any shape preferred for oil
- Flat #4, 5, 9
- Round #6 sable or sabeline
- Fan #4
Painting Surfaces – Minimum size is 16”x20”
(note: **Masonite and Chipboard are subject to warping)
- Canvas on stretcher bars
- Masonite coated with gesso (3 coats)**
- Chipboard coated with gesso (3 coats)**
- Canvas Board
- Paper (after the 2nd project, 100% rag paper is recommended)
Other supplies - (Later in semester – raw canvas, stretcher bars, gesso)
- Tackle box or other container
- Painting bag or bucket & Rags – soft old T-shirt will do
- Large open mouthed jars with lids – 2
- Palette – size 16”x20” (conventional or disposable, foil or paper)
- Palette knife
- Odorless mineral spirits or Turpentine
- Linseed Oil
- Copal medium
- Liquin cobalt dryer or Japan dryer
- Oil pastels & pencil & eraser
- Fels-naptha soap
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Acrylic Painting Supply List:
Paints – Acrylic studio tubes 2 oz. or larger
- Red oxide
- Napthol crimson
- Cadmium red medium
- Cadmium orange
- Yellow oxide
- Raw umber
- Cadmium yellow light
- Cadmium yellow deep
- Burnt sienna
- Cerulean blue
- Pthalo green
- Ultramarine blue
- Acra violet
- Flake or Titanium white (large tube)
- Black
Brushes – Nylon or other synthetic
- Flat ¼”, ½”, ¾”, 1”
- Round Sable or sabeline
- Fan #4
- Sash brush 1 ½” or more, or 3” Velvet type paint roller
Painting Surfaces – Minimum size is 18” in shortest direction
- Canvas board
- Bristol board – black and white
Other Supplies:
- Palette – cups, small covered jars, cupcake pan, closable plastic containers
- Painting knife & Palette knife
- Gesso – 1 pt.
- Gel Medium – Gloss or Matt
- Rags – soft old T-shirt will do
- Plastic container – min. 2 qt. & Plastic container – smaller
- Ziplock plastic baggies
- Atomizer
- Hysto drying retarder
- Chalk – Colored and white
- Masking tape
- Pliers/nut cracker
- Tackle box or other container
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: Basic Drawing
Supply List
- Drawing paper – Strathmore 400 series - 18” x 24”
- Bond paper – 18” x 24”
- Sketch book – Strathmore or black cover bound book
- Pencil – regular
- Pencils – 6B soft
- Woodless Graphite Pencils – 6B or 9B
- Large kneaded type eraser
- Charcoal sticks (compressed)
- Conte crayon – black 6B, sanguine, white
- Chamois (4”x4”)
- India ink – water soluble (ex. Higgins, Pelican, Hunt brands)
- Dip pen points and holder
- Chop sticks – 2 or 3 assorted
- Bamboo type round brush – apprx. #12
- Flat brush – apprx. # 6,7, or 8
- Facial tissues
- Fixative spray – Workable Matt
- Glass – 8”x10” – tape edges for safety
- Erasable Black felt pen
- Soft square of cloth for wiping glass
- Ruler
- Single edge razor blade
- Tracing paper
- Tackle box or other container
Fullerton College Instructor: Marciano Martinez
Class Title: Life Drawing
Supply List
- Drawing paper – Strathmore 400 series - 18” x 24”
- Bond paper – 18” x 24”
- Sketch book – Strathmore or black cover bound book
- Art pencils, good quality - #2H, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B
- Woodless Graphite Pencils – #6B or 9B soft
- Graphite uncoated “crayons” - #6B or 9B soft
- Large kneaded type eraser
- White plastic eraser
- Charcoal sticks (compressed)
- Conte crayon – black 6B, sanguine, white
- Chamois (4”x4”)
- India ink – water soluble (ex. Higgins, Pelican, Hunt brands)
- Dip pen points and holder
- Chop sticks – 2 or 3 asstd.
- Bamboo type round brush – apprx. #12
- Flat brush – apprx. # 6,7, or 8
- Facial tissues
- Fixative spray – Workable Matt
- Glass – 8”x10” – tape edges for safety
- Erasable Black felt pen
- Soft square of cloth for wiping glass
- Ruler
- Single edge razor blade
- Tracing paper
- Tackle box or other container
- Drawing board with clips (plus “bulldog” type clips) – 20”x25”
- Ice cube tray for inks/watercolors