Link to Finals Folder

Here's where to drop your finals. Drop them all in a folder with your name.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lUXUxAQ10vSXIhUE9ZXEM7LinnQv3BeD?usp=sharing

Palette Colors

This is my standard palette:

1. Ultramarine Blue (red shade)
2. Cobalt or Cerulean Blue
3. Cad Yellow Medium
4. Lemon Yellow
5. Grumbacher Red (or any neutral red)
6. Alizarin Crimson
7. Sap Green
8. Viridian Green
9. Yellow Ochre
10. Burnt Sienna

Additional Colors:

1. Dioxazine Purple
2. Brilliant Orange (any bright orange)

This Saturday November 4th Field Trip

We will meet at Travel Town, located at 5200 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles. It's in Griffith Park. We will meet at 10 am I'll probably be there sooner.

GIANT EMERGENCY! SOME OF YOU HAVEN'T FILLED OUT THE BACK OF THE FIELD TRIP FORMS, STOP BY THE ART OFFICE AND DO IT TODAY. I CAN'T GET IT APPROVED WITHOUT IT.

We will meet at The Outlets at Orange (The Block) this Saturday at 9 am sharp. Meet in front of the AMC Theater. The address is: 20 City Blvd W, Orange, CA 92868. Remember: To be a monster sketcher, you must do the miles.

March Field Air Museum Field Trip

We will meet at: March Field Air Museum at our usual time. It can get hot, sunny, windy etc. So bring a hat, sun screen if you think you need it. Right now it's showing the weather as pretty hot, so dress accordingly.

Materials:
Bring your usual sketching tools, but make sure you bring a toned paper sketchbook (I like tan), white Prismacolor pencil, white pen (I suggest the Uniball for fine lines and the Molotow paint marker for fat opaque work. They usually have these at Dick Blick in Fullerton, the Uniball looks like this: https://www.amazon.com/Uni-Ball-Impact-UM-153-White-Rollerball/dp/B00JRGBH5K/ref=sr_1_6?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1506958635&sr=1-6&keywords=uniball+white+gel+pen). 

MUSEUM LOCATION:
22550 Van Buren Blvd. (at I-215)
Riverside, CA 92518
Adults $10
951.902.5949

We will meet at 9:30 at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 

900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 763-DINO

Hours: 9:30 am - 5 pm daily 
I just saw this so plan accordingly:

"Due to construction, access to our parking lots on Bill Robertson Lane from Exposition Blvd. is temporarily blocked. To access our lots, take Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. to Bill Robertson Lane and head north, or consider taking the Metro Expo Line, which drops off in front of the museum. We apologize for any inconvenience." 
Bring toned paper and a normal white paper sketchbooks, white Prismacolor, pencil, pens etc.

Sketches from Class.

We will meet at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 

900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007
at 9:30am

Hours: 9:30 am - 5 pm daily 

Some More Foliage Sketches

From the Fullerton Arboretum today. If you have toned paper bring it this Saturday. Along with a white prismacolor pencil.

Some Relevant Sketches

I'll add more as I find them. These are really good reference for what we will be doing at the Natural History Museum.

Syllabus

This is an overview and I keep it flexible but it gives a pretty good overview. I'll print it this week for class on Saturday. I'll add some images soon.

Fall 2017- Materials and Examples

I encourage students to text me images if you have questions. If you hit a wall or want some feedback text me a cell-snap of it and I'll respond as soon as I can.
Materials list: Get a reasonably sized sketchbook, we talked about this, spiral bound works good. Roll of sketch/trace paper. We will do finished projects on this paper. It's inexpensive and a roll lasts forever.
Pens: Uniball Vision, Pilot G2's for water soluble technique. Pitt Pen sets are great if you like a fiber-tipped pen and they come with a brush pen. Pentel Brush pen, this is more expensive and not a requirement, you can try mine to see if you like it. It's a much higher quality that the usual over the counter brush pen.
This Saturday bring pencils, kneaded eraser, roll of trace paper, sketchbook, your ten sketches, and something to draw on. Also have a clear direction as to your project.
Below is a pic of my everyday bag and it's contents. I have everything I need in it to do color, pen, pencil, tonal drawing etc. I always have it and I know I always have everything I need sketch-wise. If there are any tools you want to try let me know. I probably have it and you can try it in class before you invest in it.

For this week: Find the architectural style you will base your design on. Create at least 10 pages (front and back) of reference sketches. I would suggest you do more. You need to have a strong understanding before you can create a fantasy version.
I would start off with small sketches to start getting a feel for the subject. You'll find interesting details and ideas as you go along. That's the idea. Explore those ideas. Write down notes. Let your mind develop a story. 
This is the download site for the sketch PDF: http://files.faso.us/33270/3893.pdf

Some thumbnail sketches, I'll be adding images as I find them:

This Saturday May 27, 2017

Bring ALL your work. Sketches, sketchbook, projects. Don't forget anything!

Tomorrow meet at Outlets of Orange

Formerly the Block. 9 am in front of the AMC.

20 City Blvd W

Orange, CA  92868

United States

Zoological Project

Do LOTS of rough explorations. No matter what the starting point is (horse, giraffe etc) it should become its own animal. Think about its environment, eating habits (hunter, omnivore?).

Here's the matte medium I used in class, you can get it anywhere:
https://www.amazon.com/Liquitex-Professional-Matte-Medium-8-Ounce/dp/B000IYWYNE

Here's the clear gesso I will be using next class (we don't have class this Saturday, it's spring break).
https://www.amazon.com/Liquitex-Acrylic-Clear-Gesso-1830106MA/dp/B015TB63DC/ref=sr_1_6?s=arts-crafts&ie=UTF8&qid=1491838675&sr=1-6&keywords=liquitex+clear+gesso

This is the paint I was using:
https://www.amazon.com/Liquitex-Professional-Acrylic-Paint-Titanium/dp/B002DZZP50/ref=sr_1_4?s=arts-crafts&ie=UTF8&qid=1491838729&sr=1-4&keywords=liquitex+soft+body

All this stuff is available anywhere.

This Saturday...Zoo!

Check back here this week before the field trip. If anything changes, I'll post it here.
Address is:
5333 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027 - (323) 644-4200
Make sure you have my phone number in your phone. We'll meet at the ticket counter at 10 AM.Some people to look at. Some of these guys I've mentioned before.
http://cartergoodrich.comhttp://www.peterdeseve.comhttp://woutertulp.nlhttp://woutertulp.blogspot.comhttp://www.csasaki.com

March Field Air Museum

We will meet at the museum at the usual time. I would bring your regular sketchbook, a toned paper sketchbook, pens, pencil, white pencil and a white pen. 
You never know what you're getting weather-wise so if it's sunny bring a hat sunscreen etc. right now it's not showing sunny weather but it's a week out and that could change. 
Address:
March Field Air Museum, Van Buren Boulevard, March Air Reserve Base, CA
Entrance fee is $10.00
http://www.marchfield.com
Here's some of the images from class:

"Block" Project

The project is to "fix" design problems (as you see it) at the block. Try to keep it in the realm of possibility. Explore your ideas through small thumbnails. Although The Block is a shopping center, it's also an entertainment complex.
The "fix" can be as simple as creating more interesting/exciting sightlines to what "shoppingtainment" means in 2017.
A lot has happened with technology/culture since it opened. Immersive spaces can be explored, interactive experiences etc.
Some samples, and I'll post more as I find them:

Field Trip to the Outlets at Orange (The Block)

We'll be meeting at the Outlets at Orange on Saturday February 25th. There is no class this Saturday the 18th due to the holiday. 
We will meet in front of the AMC Theater. 
20 City Blvd W
Orange, CA 92868-3100
Some relevant images, I'll post more as I find them.

This Saturday

We are on campus this Saturday. Bring paper, col-erase pencil, pen, kneaded eraser, sharpener. Pen is REALLY important.
Some products:
My favorite pencil:
https://www.amazon.com/Palomino-Blackwing-602-12-Count/dp/B006YYPIUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486403709&sr=8-1&keywords=blackwing+602
Pilot G2 .05 pen you can usually get these at most stores:
https://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Retractable-Roller-12-Pieces-31002/dp/B00006JNJ8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486403965&sr=8-1&keywords=pilot+g2+.05
I'll be adding more as think of it, as well as links.

Saturday February 4, 2017

This is the download site for the sketch PDF: http://files.faso.us/33270/3893.pdf