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Pencil Artist Juan Rivera

Pencil Artist of the Week: Juan Rivera

This week’s featured pencil artist is Juan Rivera, an illustrator and graphic designer living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Even though most of his professional work is in the digital medium, he still finds time to sketch, draw and doodle in…

Quincy Jones: What Makes a Legend?

Quincy Jones: What Makes a Legend? March 14 was the 79th birthday of legendary producer and composer Quincy Jones. In his decades-spanning career, Jones has been the driving force behind some of the most memorable music of the 20th century.…

Traces of History: Pencils and the Suffrage Movement

Traces of History: Pencils and the Suffrage Movement My earliest heroes were the women behind the United States suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone weren’t just stuffy figures in a history…
Project Runway

Pencils and Pop Culture: Who Will Take the Project Runway All-Star Title?

Pencils and Pop Culture: Who Will Take the Project Runway All-Star Title? Tomorrow night is the season finale of “Project Runway: All-Stars,” which has pitted outstanding designers from nine seasons of “Project Runway” in a winner-takes-all…
Pencil Artist Bonnie Jean Woolger

Pencil Artist of the Week: Bonnie Jean Woolger

This week’s featured pencil artist is Bonnie Jean Woolger, a sketchbook artist from Decatur, Georgia. She creates a breed of art that consists of images, shapes and patterns layered together to produce what she calls “collage art.” Call…

Test Your Pencil Knowledge

Test Your Pencil Knowledge Every day through March 15th, we'll ask a trivia question about pencils. And each day we'll give a pack of Kitaboshi highlighter pencils and hardbound notebook to someone who answers correctly. At the end of the contest,…
Pencil Artist Nikira

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nikira

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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, into an apartment in New…
Dr. Seuss

One Fish, Studio 602 Fish – Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Is there a children's book author more universally beloved than Dr. Seuss? Some would posit J.K. Rowling surpasses the Seuss in terms of universal adoration, but I would argue that Rowling does not write children's…
Year of the Pencil

Pencils and Pop Culture: The Year of the Pencil

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Pencils and Pop Culture: The Year of the Pencil Earlier this year, Kat Brown of Night and Day, The Spectator's Arts and Culture magazine, called 2012 "The Year of the Pencil"  (Be warned, the sketch at the top of the page is probably NSFW).…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nicole Hamilton

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Nicole Hamilton, a self-taught photographer and pencil artist with a background in graphic design. Nicole started out like most artists, sketching cartoon characters from TV, movies and comic strips in…