One of my favorite things to do as a child was to go to the stationery store with my dad when he bought new pens. He was a lawyer clinging to the stone-age practice of writing every single thing by hand, and so was very particular about pens.…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is Louis Keersmaekers, an art student from Belgium who creates graphite, charcoal and acrylic-based art. Louis prefers “sinister art that gives an eerie feeling, nothing to edgy though just something……
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Over the years, pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell has produced some genuinely inspiring print ads that blur the lines between ad and art. One of our chosen best pencil print ads was from a Faber-Castell colored pencil campaign.
Faber-Castell…
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Late last month, Pencils.com partnered with the University of the Pacific to launch the Los Tigres educational program. To date, the program has been an overwhelming success, reaching 10 different elementary schools and over 3000 students in…
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Popular blog Lifehacker.com strives to make readers’ lives a little easier. The blog posts great deals, encouraging video and literature, technological tidbits, and creative DIY projects and more to help readers ‘hack’ shortcuts into…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is Arno Hagenunger, a pencil artist from Germany who creates incredible, fantastic drawings using a combination of graphite pencils, color pencils, and various acrylics and pastels. His DeviantArt profile…
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Pencils.com has a challenge for you! Grab a pencil, sharpen the tip to a perfect point, and try to balance it on a surface - your finger, a table, your morning bagel (if you need help achieving a perfect tip, check out this book by David Rees…
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An anonymous artist near Stroud, UK is drawing attention to a nearby field by painting its stakes into giant pencils. This “Banksy-like” street art won the favor of the stakes’ owner, farmer Nick Dart, who had to install the posts upside-down…
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This week’s featured pencil artist hails from Germany and goes by the handle C-Compiler on DeviantArt (or just “Compiler” as she signs her notes). Her DeviantArt profile is filled with drawings of dinosaurs, both traditional and digital.
For…
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When you hear the word graphite, pencils inevitably come to mind. The pencil is of course the most common and well-known use for graphite, but there are some unique properties of graphite that make it useful for a number of different applications.
It's…
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