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Archive for month: July, 2011

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Welcome to Studio 602

Welcome to Studio 602 Today is an exciting day at Pencils.com as we officially launch our new blog, Studio 602. First, the name. We could call it a blog or a magazine but that implies one-way communication. At Studio 602, it's about the…
Mad Men

A Mad Man’s Pencil: Blackwing and Mad Men

A Mad Man's Pencil: Blackwing and Mad Men Imagine you are a fly on the wall of an office building on New York City’s Madison Avenue. A man in a green argyle sweater and pleated brown pants sits on an upholstered Scandinavian-style couch with…

Chuck Jones Big Draw

Chuck Jones Big Draw Pencils.com is proud to be partnering with the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity for their Big Draw event on August 7th. If you're anywhere near Southern California that weekend, stop by and help us set the Guinness World…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Steamkid

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This week's pencil artist is an anonymous blogger with the Tumblr moniker Steamkid, perhaps a reference to the steampunk sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy. Though her blog's archives are short, you can see the progression from horizon-line…
Pencil Artist Kyle Bean

Pencil Artist of the Week: Kyle Bean

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We love featuring pencil artists who are using pencils, though not necessarily drawing with them. One such example is Kyle Bean. With several photos of his portraits featured over at Blink Art, Kyle shaves down colored pencils to use the shape…
Blackwing 602

Palomino Blackwing Setting Design Trends

Palomino Blackwing Setting Design Trends Recently we’ve received a few great examples of how some forward thinking customers have been using our Palomino Blackwing pencils as an integral part of their promotional efforts in their own businesses.…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Pat Perry

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This week, we ran across this pencil artist on Tumblr (linked from Big Eye Doll). It's Pat Perry, or P@ Perry, according to the doodled header on the top of Pat's website. At this point, we're not sure of Pat's age, location, or even gender,…

The Blackwing 602 in Action

The Blackwing 602 in Action It makes our day when fans take the time to send in positive feedback about our pencils. But what we received from Jon Streeter recently is tough for us to put in words. So instead, we'll use his words: ...You'll…
Pencil Artist Cath Riley

Pencil Artist of the Week: Cath Riley

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Pencil artist Cath Riley has created many, many works in pencil, and almost all of them have a special emphasis on texture, shading, and shape. This picture, for example, very expertly portrays the wrinkles and crannies of the hand of an elderly…

Chinese Pencil Anti-Dumping Duties Revisted

Note: This is republished from WoodChuck's personal blog about the pencil industry, Timberlines. See the original post and comment thread by clicking here. Chinese Pencil Anti-Dumping Duties Revisted Bloomberg.com published an article on June…