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Pencil Artist of the Week: Nikira

This week’s featured pencil artist is a notebook sketcher and Palomino Blackwing 602 user from New York. Her name is Nikira, and her brand of in-the-moment sketching has the ability to transport you onto the subway, [...]

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Pencil Artist of the Week: Joe Fenton

This week’s pencil artist is one that works on a grand scale. His name is Joe Fenton and his projects measure as much as five feet high by 8 feet wide. Each project’s size and scope [...]

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Pencil Artist of the Week: Alex Ross

Our first featured pencil artist of 2012 is well-known in the world of comics, but may not be familiar to people in other circles. His name is Alex Ross, and he is an artist that has [...]

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Pencil Artist of the Week: Sharon Frank Mazgaj

High-quality color pencil art is hard to find, so when we come across an artist as talented as this week’s featured pencil artist, we take notice. Her name is Sharon Frank Mazgaj, and she is a [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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 [...]