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Archive for 'Tag Archives: 'Pencil''

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Pencils and Pop Culture: The Year of the Pencil

Earlier this year, Kat Brown of Night and Day, The Spectator’s Arts and Culture magazine, called 2012 “The Year of the Pencil”  (Be warned, the sketch at the top of the page is probably NSFW). Yes, [...]

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Pencil Artist of the Week: Rebecca Stahr

This week’s featured pencil artist is Rebecca Stahr, a pencil artist and designer from Chicago, Illinois. Rebecca began studying art at a young age and went on to study advertising, graphic design and illustration at the [...]

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A Fine Point: David Rees and the Art of Artisanal Pencil Sharpening

“Artisanal pencil sharpener” isn’t a career you see on many business cards, but for David Rees the art of the hand-sharpened pencil is both a passion and a full-time pursuit. Rees, a former political cartoonist who [...]

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Sketchy Details: Artist, Image and Austen

She sits at work, her back erect in over a small writing table. Scattered across its surface are the tools of her trade: a tablet of paper, a pen or two. Westminster Abbey looms outside her [...]

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Draw with Uncle Arty, Picasso and the Blackwing Pencil

Our good friends at Loudville TV are producing the world’s next big television hit – “Draw” with Uncle Arty. Its star, Mark Keller (a former Pencils.com Artist of the Week), teaches aspiring artists of all ages [...]

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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 [...]

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We're gearing up for Private Label Pencils!

Pencils.com always has big ideas in the works to bring you great pencils. We have top-quality brands available like General’s, Golden Bear, and of course the Palomino. Though Palomino is our flagship brand (and is the [...]

"Any day I'd rather draw with a yellow piece of wood"

We ran across this on YouTube the other day from Ybo Music’s YouTube channel. If there’s anything we love more than clever stop/start animation web video, it’s a clever stop/start animation web video about pencils. And [...]

'Let's Make a Pencil' Video

Please be sure to check out our Story of Pencils section for fun and reliable pencil information. The Incense Cedar Institute created a video showing and discussing the process of pencil making. With an object that [...]

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"The Best Pencil in the World" -Joseph Finder

One of our ‘Featured Writers’ Joseph Finder discusses ‘The Best Pencil in the World’. Learn more about Joseph Finder by checking out his ‘Featured Writer’ page. He also has a few ‘Writer Tips’ that can be [...]