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Stephen Sondheim

Blackwing Biography Series: Stephen Sondheim

Blackwing Biography Series: Stephen Sondheim Our last installment of the Blackwing Biography Series, celebrating the June release of the Palomino Blackwing 602 features the only person on our list who is still alive. He's the American-born…

75 years of Kris Kristofferson

75 Years of Kris Kristofferson Stop me if you’ve heard this one. An All-American athlete, a fighter pilot and a Rhodes Scholar walk into a bar. His name was Kris Kristofferson. 75 years ago, on June 22, 1936, Kristofferson was born a star.…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Andrew Madrazo

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Today's Monday Pencil Artist is Andrew Madrazo from Cebu City in the Philippines. A software engineer by day, his Tumblr blog, Dru-ing features, among other things, pencil-drawing figures cut out and interacting with the artist somehow. This…
Nelson Riddle

Blackwing Biography Series: Nelson Riddle

Blackwing Biography Series: Nelson Riddle Nelson Riddle, an American-born composer, orchestrator, and bandleader, was an avid user of the Eberhard Faber Blackwing. His work with Capitol Records helped define a generation of big band. He worked…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Wim Heldens

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Okay, so this one isn't so much a pencil drawing, as it is a painting of a model holding a pencil. But you like pencils well enough to forgive that, right? We read over at Pencil Points the other day about this portrait, by Wim Heldens. Heldens,…
Blackwing 602

Blackwing 602 Reviews

Just over a week has passed since the official launch of the Palomino Blackwing 602, and it’s been a whirlwind here at the Pencils.com headquarters in Stockton, CA. The response has been better than we ever could have dreamed. We set a 24…
Pencil Dreams

Sharpening Your Knowledge: Carl Sandburg’s Pencils

Sharpening Your Knowledge: Carl Sandburg’s Pencils As we continue our celebration of Blackwing Month and the release of the Blackwing 602, we’re focusing on writers who are letting their ideas come to fruition in the form of paper and graphite…
Chuck Jones

Blackwing Biography Series: Chuck Jones

Blackwing Biography Series: Chuck Jones Born in Spokane, Washington in 1912, animator Chuck Jones was perhaps most famous for drawing the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons for Warner Brothers for almost 30 years, starting in 1933, but…
Pencil Artist Creative Native

Pencil Artist of the Week: The Creative Native

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This week's featured pencil artist, 23 year-old Ashleigh Brown, has a Tumblr blog, Creative Native, where she posts all sorts of sketches, illustrations and artwork. Our favorite of her work are the doodles she creates, like this one. Despite…

The Blackwing 602 now available!

The Blackwing 602 now available! Palomino and Pencils.com are proud to announce that the new Palomino Blackwing 602 is now available in the Pencils.com store!   The "602" has the same smoothness as the original Palomino Blackwing we…