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Jagged Lines of Imagination Academy Hosts Mel Shaw Exhibition

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Yesterday evening I had the great pleasure of discovering a gem in my own backyard. JLI Academy located right here in my hometown of Stockton, California is a two year old art academy founded by Jon Guerzon who comes from an animation background.…

Pencilman in "The Point of Christmas"

In the spirit of Christmas, Pencils.com has teamed up with, the creator of Pencilman, to sponsor production of a new Pencilman episode celebrating Christmas. See if you can notice one of Pencilman's new buddies, the Palomino HB artist pencil.…

Pencilman Video Library Grows with Halloween Offering

Sean Sanzel, creator of the Pencilman video series has added another new video just in time for the holidays. Sean has also contributed a scene from his full length Pencilman movie now in development and this creative segment on dealing with…

New Motivational Pencils

Time and time again we've seen that children respond to the gift of a pencil and when that pencil encourages and reinforces development of positive school and life skills the power of that gift is multiplied. We've added several new items to…

Stock Up on Back to School Supplies

It’s that time again… time for back to school shopping. All students deserve the best supplies to do their best work. At our Pencils.com Store you can find all kinds of exciting new pencils and accessories to start the school year off right.…

Pencil Sharpening Techniques

I ran into this blog posted by Matthew James Taylor titled "The Art of Sharpening Pencils". It's a helpful resource on sharpening pencils for art purposes. In his post, he describes several pencil points he likes to use for different types of…

The Pencil…Not Going the Way of the Dinosaur

After two months the 150th Anniversary of Hymen Lipman's patent on an eraser tipping concept for pencils continues to generate interest in writing about the continued survival of the pencil in today's high tech world. Here is today's Chicago…

Pencil Pushers Class Hosts Kids Art Day at the Ballpark

One of the class highlights was designing and implementing The inaugural Pencil Pushers Class at University of the Pacific Eberhardt School of Business (ESB) is winding down its spring semester this week. Kids Art Day at the Ballpark Contest…

New KUM and Palomino-KUM Offerings

The Pencils.com Store has added several new products from KUM, the German manufacturer of premium quality hand held pencil sharpeners. California Republic has for several years had an ongoing collaboration with KUM. The first product of this…

Animators, Apes, and Palominos

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Palomino graphite pencil has been named the official pencil of Grace Animation Studios, the creator of the Avenging Apes of Africa. The Avenging Apes are helping lead the way in a new genre of “ed”utainment…