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)
Today is Design Friday, so your challenge is something the graphic designers will likely be familiar with: figure/ground reversal. “Figure/ground” is a phrase that came from modern German Gestalt psychology. It refers to how our mind organizes forms, distinguishing an object (figure) from its background (ground). In the early 1900s Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin famously experimented …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. PUERILE childishly silly and trivial. #salchallenge @seattleartistleague …
In my last post I shared Auerbach’s study of ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’. This is another post about artists studying other artists. Did you know that Picasso did a series of studies in Velasquez’s Las Meninas? When we did modern studies of masterwork compositions in class, many students did one little study of a painting and figured …
From Wikipedia: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese: 歌川 広重), also Andō Hiroshige (Japanese: 安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his landscapes, such as the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō; …
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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