Chris Martinez

Thank you Chris for always making Ventura High School look so good.

My condolences to your family. He was a great person and mentor for me, and always supported my love for art/animation/cartooning. I will never forget his encouragments and of course we all have our caricatures to remember him by.

My condolences to the Martinez family. My sons, Jackson, Austin and I spent many years painting murals and holiday windows with Chris. He was an incredibly talented artist, a great teacher and a friend. RIP Chris!

Chris...Your drawings line the HALLS of my MEMORIES. At all our many Company functions and parties YOU were the center of JOY and FUN. "You're singing in the company of SAINTS" now and forever!

Sending my condolences to the Martinez & Burgos family. My heart is breaking for the loss of Chris. I have fond memories of this wonderful man & his beautiful sister Bertie and her family. They were such a close loving family . I am so grateful that back then I was a part of it. They shared their Christmas Eve's with me at Bertie & Henry's on Ralston in Ventura. I am lucky to have a few caricatures that Chris did. My most memorable is from Twenty years ago, Chris did an engagement portrait...

Our son, Matthew, started drawing with Chris when he was only 8 in a summer program at VC. He was too young for the class but he was determined to participate. We decided to take him and ask if Chris would allow him to stay. Chris made no promises but allowed him to sit through the first day and said he would make a decision when the class was over. Well, after a few short hours he had won Chris over with his artistic abilities, focus and determination in class, he said it surpassed many of...

We will always remember our querido primo as a gifted,personable and witty guy. We all grew up together on Charles Street in Moorpark. Las familias,Romero,Almeida,Garcia,Tafoya,
Duarte, Valencia,Palafox, Burgos and others will always remember his legacy.
Art and baseball were among his life long talents. We have a set of caricatures he made of our family in 1977 in Mt Angel, Oregon while on tour promoting Pental products. Chis, Debbie and Danny would visit us in So, Pasadena while he...

Chris was an amazing teacher. I learned more about life drawing from him than in all my high school art classes. He was a champion for art and artists. He will be missed.

Chris is the only adult I know who is remembered at his elementary school. His great work emblazons the entrance to Will Rogers Elementary School. No textured museum light, just the laughing and hollering of kids just as he would want it. I always liked the way Chris listened to a baseball game: He'd open the doors and windows so the sound could follow him about as he went in and out and room-to-room. Chris could accumulate clutter with the best of them but everything had a story. It was...