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Blackwing Experience

Reviving the Blackwing: A Labor of Love or Insanity?

Part One: Seeking Consumer Feedback Over the past two weeks we on the CalCedar & Pencils.com team have been in the midst of a grand experiment. That is soliciting and evaluating the initial consumer responses to our new Palomino Blackwing…
Joseph Finder Best Pencil in the World

Our Interview with Joe Finder

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We asked Joe Finder a few questions to learn a bit more about him. Check out his 'Featured Writer' page to see his biography. He also has some great 'Writer Tips' to help out current and future authors. You can also Click here to visit his personal…

Nikira- Another Palomino Fan

“Drawn with Palomino pencil, recommended by Bob from Scotland, really the best pencil I ever had.” The best pencil that she has ever had!!! Nikira posts many of her sketches on her blog. She is also a member of Skine Art where she posts…

Diane Wright- Landscape Specialist

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across Diane Wright’s blog. Her drawings completely blew me away. I decided that I would take the time to e-mail her and ask her a few questions. Beautiful Landscapes is a book that Diane sent me and I was amazed.…

"The Best Pencil in the World" -Joseph Finder

In the following excerpt, New York Times best-selling author Joseph Finder discusses what he believes to be'The Best Pencil in the World'. Learn more about Joseph Finder by checking out his ‘Featured Writer’ page, reading his  ‘Writer…

Bulk Pencils…A Huge Money Saver!

Our new Bulk Pencils purchasing option offers our most favorable everyday pricing on a wide variety of our most popular pencils. Buy your favorite pencils in multiples of full one gross boxes (144 pencils per item) and take advantage of our…

Louie Centanni- An Up and Coming Writer

Louie Centanni teaches middle school English and Social Studies in San Diego, CA. Though he never planned (or wanted) to end up teaching preteens and adolescents, his journey to—and passion for—his current occupation serves as a microcosm…

Joseph Finder- An Award Winning Author

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Joseph Finder’s (Finn-der) plan was to become a spy...or maybe a professor of Russian history. Instead he became a bestselling thriller writer, and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel for 'Killer Instinct' (2006)…

Sketching at Work: Racing Car Designer

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As a follow on to my last post on sketching in the workplace I was catching up on one of my  interests this morning which was the Formula 1 Racing Series.  Amazing, I came across this  article on Red Bull Racing's F1 car designer Adrian…

Sketching as a Workplace Creativity Tool

The team at Ninthlink is one of the two external partners we are currently working with here at  Pencils.com to develop and build our next generation Pencils.com site. Today we receive a link to this  interesting post promoting the concept…