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)
If you followed the 30SAL challenge last year, you may remember a series of posts about perspective. These perspectives include much more than the dominant Western standard of 1 point, 2 point, and 3 point linear perspective. These perspectives span the globe and include centuries of humans depicting space on a two dimensional surface. We’re …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7600″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Ralph Steadman Draw, paint, collage a reproduction of a famous artwork in history with your pet’s head replacing the figure’s. As much as you can, stay true to the original composition (unless you have a pet giraffe and have chosen the Mona Lisa). The original masterwork can be sculpture, …
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. AGASTOPIA n. – admiration of a particular …
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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