Subscribe to our RssFollow us on Twitter!Follow us on Facebook!Check out our Youtube!

Archive for 'Tag Archives: 'Art''

fabric bolt

The Pencil, Always in Style – PPC

I’ve written before about the inherent seductive qualities of pencils. However, for all my admiration of pencil skirts and, in limited instances, pencils mustaches, I had never seen just how high-fashion a pencil could be. Enter [...]

pencils_com_mike_theuer

(Re)Introducing Pencils.com Teaching Artist Mike Theuer!

Hi Studio 602ers!  I’m Mike Theuer.  I’m a featured teaching-artist here on Pencils.com.  I also teach art at The Pennsylvania State University.  And I make art for a living at www.MikeTheuer.com.  My latest commission is this [...]

Pencils.com product

The Blackwing Pencil: Muse to the Masses

If you’ve followed along, you’ll know that those of us here at Studio 602 believe that a Blackwing pencil can be something sexy , something political , and something sporty . But it turns out we’re [...]

xbox-controller-xbox360-1282819-o

Can Video Games Be Considered Art?

I’ve been playing video games for as long as I can remember, so when Roger Ebert came out a few years ago and claimed “video games can never be art,” I was one of the many [...]

sketch-christmaseve-400

Pencil Artist of the Week: Angela Trotta Thomas

This week’s pencil artist’s medium of choice is actually oil paints, but that doesn’t stop her from creating some fine pencil art too. Her name is Angela Trotta Thomas, and her pencil sketches embrace a timelessness [...]

glubber

Pencil Artist of the Week: Steve Prescott

This week’s featured pencil artist was recommended to us by one of our followers on Twitter. His name is Steve Prescott, and he is a self-proclaimed fantasy artist living in Columbus, Ohio. He also claims that [...]

Disney Castle

Pursuing Your Passions: Lessons Learned from Walt Disney

Walt Disney once said of the origins of his most famous character, “Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a [...]

chaos

Pencil Artist of the Week: David Poppie

We’ve posted the work from this week’s pencil artist on our Tumblr, but that was before we knew who he was. His name is David Poppie, and he is an artist who creates art out of [...]

The Pumpkin Abides

Triangle-Nose No More: Revamping the Jack-O'-Lantern

Halloween is only a couple days away, making this weekend your last chance to carve this year’s jack-o’-lantern. Waiting until the last minute is actually a boon when it comes to pumpkin carving; your typical gourd [...]

picasso

Pencils and Pablo Picasso

He isn’t our Pencil Artist of the Week, but one might call him one of the Pencil Artists of All-Time. Pablo Picasso, who was born 130 years ago today in Malaga, Spain, experimented with a host [...]