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Pencil Artist James W. Fry

Pencil Artist of the Week: James W. Fry

This week's featured pencil artist is James W. Fry, an illustrator, comic penciler, and storyboard artist living in New York City. We met James at this year's National Stationery Show, where he stopped by our booth and chatted with us about…
Charcoal Art

Charcoal Drawing Tips

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Charcoal is one of the oldest art mediums, having been used for cave drawings by early man. Back then, charcoal was used in the form of the ends of burned sticks. Today's charcoal artists have more modern options: compressed charcoal, vine…
Pencil Artist Marcus Collar

Pencil Artist of the Week: Marcus Collar

This week’s featured pencil artist is Marcus Collar, a comic penciler and incredibly talented pencil artist living in Napa, CA. We met Marcus at this year’s Stockton-Con, where he was exhibiting his work and promoting his upcoming series…
Tiberlines Road Trip Journal

Timberlines: Keeping a Road Trip Journal

Keeping a Road Trip Journal Over at Timberlines, WoodChuck has posted an entry discussing his experience with one of our Journals Unlimited Road Trip journals. Journals Unlimited journals, which are made in the USA using soy-based inks, come…
Pencil Artist Nick Williams

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nick Williams

This week’s featured pencil artist is Nick Williams, an artist living in the United Kingdom. After spending a considerable amount of time exploring and admiring the works of artists on DeviantArt.com, Nick decided to take up drawing and contribute…
Pencil Artist Dino Tomic

Pencil Artist of the Week: Dino Tomic

This week's featured pencil artist is Dino Tomic, a tattoo artist, traditional painter, digital painter, and pencil artist living in Norway. Though his passion is his tattoo art (which is amazing, by the way), it was his color pencil portraits…
Palomino Drawing Pencils

Connect the Dots: Exploring the Link Between Drawing & Communication

Drawing & Communication Art as a form of communication and self-expression is nothing new, but it takes on a whole new level of importance when we consider the way that children use drawing. As a child, Garrett was diagnosed with autism.…
Guy Clark

Interviews with Guy Clark

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Last week, legendary songwriter and artist Guy Clark released his first studio album in four years.  The album features eleven new tracks, ten of which were written by Clark along with a group of Nashville A-Listers, including Rodney Crowell,…
Drawn Album Art

The Best of: Hand-Drawn Album Art

I can appreciate a good photograph or a digital art piece on a record cover as much as the next audiophile, but there’s something extra special about album artwork that’s illustrated by hand. Here are five brilliantly sketched album covers…
Fats Waller Songs

Songs from Literary Masterpieces [Video]

Songs find their way into literary masterpieces often times, adding context, capturing the mood of the story, allowing the reader to enjoy an external frame of reference grounded in the real world.  I love discovering new music via literature,…