This week’s featured pencil artist is Jack Kaminski, a pencil artist, comic illustrator, art director and concept artist from Brazil. Jack creates everything from hyper-realistic portraits, to surreal landscapes and, regardless of the subject…
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Beautiful, inspiring and sweetly nostalgic, holiday art makes this time of year seem even more magical and delightful to everyone who enjoys paintings of winter wonderlands, happy children with their presents and scenes of the Nativity.
To…
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I'm a California transplant living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For the most part, I love my new home - the accessible public transportation, the history, and of course the cheesesteaks. Still, every once in a while I get homesick. I made…
This week’s featured pencil artist is Michele Parisi, a pencil artist from Italy who creates pencils drawings of dinosaurs, dinosaurs, and more dinosaurs. Ever since I watched the Jurassic World trailer last week, I’ve been on a bit of a…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is an artist from the United States named Steven G. Chipman. Steven creates graphite, carbon and color pencil drawings with a TON of texture, and even more character. Steven was kind enough to share the secret…
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'Tis the season to send handwritten holiday cards! In an age when so many have become disenchanted with the half-sincere Facebook wall birthday greeting, a tangible, hand-written card that arrives in the mail is the perfect way to spread holiday…
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Despite what David Rees claims in Chapter 11 of How to Sharpen Pencils, mechanical pencils do have their place in the pencilverse.
Surprisingly, this wonder of pencil technology has actually existed in one form or another for the better…
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Winter is coming, and with it, weather that makes you want to stay indoors. Very soon you're going to need a way to combat the boredom and keep the kids occupied. One of my favorite foul-weather pastimes is doing craft projects. These five Instructables…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is Barbara, a pencil artist from Spain who creates drawings inspired by Japanese mange and anime. She goes by the handle Phadme on DeviantArt, and her gallery is filled with exquisitely lined pencil drawings…
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The artist has numerous arrows in her quiver when it comes to selecting the medium in which to practice her art. For the illustrator, the arrow of choice is the colored pencil, owing to its ready availability, portability, relatively low cost,…
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