Alan Saret is an American sculptor, draftsman, and installation artist, best known for his Postminimalism wire sculptures and drawings. Saret was born in 1944, and is currently living and working in Brooklyn. Each of these “Gang Drawings” as he called them, were made by marking the page with a fistful of color pencils in seemingly random, fleeting gestures. All Gang Drawings were made between 1967 and 2002.
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Ancient Greeks used colored wax-based crayons, and Pliny the Elder recorded that Romans, once again taking their artistic cues from Greeks, also used wax-based crayons. The first colored pencils with wood encasement appeared in the 19th century and were used for “checking and marking”. Staedtler, a German company owned by Johann Sebastian Staedtler invented a colored oil pastel pencil in 1834. Production of colored pencils for art purposes didn’t start until the early 20th century. The first colored pencils made specifically for art were invented and produced in 1924 by Faber-Castell and Caran d’Ache. Berol started making its colored pencils in 1938. Other manufacturers that also made colored pencils during the late 30s and early 40s were Derwent, Progresso, Lyra Rembrandt, and Blick Studio. (History of Pencils)
How did it happen that all of our drawings and paintings are in rectangles? In my online figure drawing class last Sunday, I showed drawings by Matisse, Modigliani, and the very Matisse-like Pierre Boncompain. I talked about positioning the figure within the rectangle, thinking about how the shape of the figure and the shape of …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7670″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Find a stone you can comfortably hold in your hand. Without looking at it, spend a few minutes exploring it with your hands. Close your eyes. Feel the weight of the stone, the shape and balance and texture of it. Get to know it as well as you …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9309″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Carlos San Millan Doorzien – a Dutch word translated as “to see through.” In dutch art, doorzien referred to a painting that showed a view from one room into another, making the picture especially beautiful. Nicholas Maes, 1657 (Danish) Pieter de Hooch, 1660 (Dutch) …
“…but when they get a bit besmirched, well then they are fair game.” – Diebenkorn “I don’t go into the studio with the idea of ‘saying’ something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.” – Richard Diebenkorn In the …
Colored Pencil Drawings by Alan Saret
Alan Saret is an American sculptor, draftsman, and installation artist, best known for his Postminimalism wire sculptures and drawings. Saret was born in 1944, and is currently living and working in Brooklyn. Each of these “Gang Drawings” as he called them, were made by marking the page with a fistful of color pencils in seemingly random, fleeting gestures. All Gang Drawings were made between 1967 and 2002.
Did you know?
Ancient Greeks used colored wax-based crayons, and Pliny the Elder recorded that Romans, once again taking their artistic cues from Greeks, also used wax-based crayons. The first colored pencils with wood encasement appeared in the 19th century and were used for “checking and marking”. Staedtler, a German company owned by Johann Sebastian Staedtler invented a colored oil pastel pencil in 1834. Production of colored pencils for art purposes didn’t start until the early 20th century. The first colored pencils made specifically for art were invented and produced in 1924 by Faber-Castell and Caran d’Ache. Berol started making its colored pencils in 1938. Other manufacturers that also made colored pencils during the late 30s and early 40s were Derwent, Progresso, Lyra Rembrandt, and Blick Studio. (History of Pencils)
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