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Monday Pencil Artist

This week’s pencil artist is an anonymous blogger with the Tumblr moniker Steamkid, perhaps a reference to the steampunk sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy. Though her blog’s archives are short, you can see the progression [...]

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Monday Pencil Artist: Kyle Bean

We love featuring artists who are using pencils, though not necessarily drawing with them. One such example is Kyle Bean. With several photos of his portraits featured over at Blink Art, Kyle shaves down colored pencils [...]

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Pencil Artis of the Weekt: Pat Perry

This week, we ran across this artist on Tumblr (linked from Big Eye Doll). It’s Pat Perry, or P@ Perry, according to the doodled header on the top of Pat’s website. At this point, we’re not [...]

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Winners of the Blackwing contest

We’re very excited to announce the two winners of the Blackwing contest in two parts, celebrating our first Palomino Blackwing, which is great for drawing, and the new Palomino Blackwing 602, which excels at writing. Karen [...]

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Monday, er, Tuesday Pencil Artist: Cath Riley

Artist Cath Riley has created many many works in pencil, and almost all of them have a special emphasis on texture, shading, and shape. This picture, for example, very expertly portrays the wrinkles and crannies of [...]

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Blackwing Biography Series: Stephen Sondheim

Our last installment of the Blackwing Biography Series, celebrating the June release of the Palomino Blackwing 602 features the only person on our list who is still alive. He’s the American-born composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. [...]

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Monday Pencil Artist: Andrew Madrazo

Today’s Monday Pencil Artist is Andrew Madrazo from Cebu City in the Philippines. A software engineer by day, his Tumblr blog, Dru-ing features, among other things, pencil-drawing figures cut out and interacting with the artist somehow. [...]

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Blackwing Biography Series: Nelson Riddle

Nelson Riddle, an American-born composer, orchestrator, and bandleader, was an avid user of the Eberhard Faber Blackwing. His work with Capitol Records helped define a generation of big band. He worked with Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, [...]

Just Because: 15% off all craft items

Howdy Pencileers,Today is the first official day of summer. With school out and plenty of fun to be had, we want to encourage everyone, especially children, to let their creative side see the (sun)light of day. [...]

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Monday Pencil Artist: Wim Heldens

Okay, so this one isn’t so much a pencil drawing, as it is a painting of a model holding a pencil. But you like pencils well enough to forgive that, right? We read over at Pencil [...]