This week’s featured pencil artist is Florian Jaensch, a pencil artist from Germany who specializes in creating portraits and time-lapse drawing videos. Florian’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with graphite, charcoal, and chalk drawings of…
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Like the red fire truck or the blue police car, the yellow pencil is an iconic image. We have all relied on the yellow pencil at some point, the color embedded in our very idea of what a pencil is.
The burning question: Why are pencils yellow? Why…
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Today, Palomino finally took the wraps off of the latest addition to the Blackwing family, the Blackwing Slate, with a full photo preview. Here are the main points:
Wear-resistant polymer hardcover
Dual-sewn binding (sewn bound twice…
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For the next week, we’re going to be doing something different on the Pencils Blog. In addition to pencil news and updates, our staff will be writing short stories using prompts from 642 Things to Write About, the most popular book in the…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is Anais Vallée, a pencil artist from Canada who creates her drawings with the humblest of tools: a #2 graphite pencil and Crayola color pencil.
Yes, you read that correctly. No graded graphite pencils.…
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For the next week, we're going to be doing something different on the Pencils Blog. In addition to pencil news and updates, our staff will be writing short stories using prompts from 642 Things to Write About, the most popular book in the…
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Yesterday, Palomino announced the launch of their new Blackwing-focused site Blackwing602.com (as well of a very interesting new notebook, but more on that later). The site is aimed at fostering the culture of creativity, innovation and excitement…
For the next week, we're going to be doing something different on the Pencils Blog. In addition to pencil news and updates, our staff will be writing short stories using prompts from 642 Things to Write About, the most popular book in the…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is Robbie Wild Hudson, a pencil artist who splits his time between Berlin and the Lake District in England. Robbie has exhibited his work in the UK, Canada, and Turkey and, after taking one look at his gallery,…
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Once upon a time, a tenth-grade English teacher sought to impress upon her students the importance of following MLA guidelines to the letter. One such guideline was that essays must be printed on paper of a particular weight. That night, twenty-some…
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Pencil News, TV, FILM & BOOKSPencil Artist of the Week: Anais Vallée
Pencil Artist of the Week642 Things to Write About: Great-Great-Grandmother’s Diary, June 16, 1865
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Pencil News642 Things to Write About – “The Morning of Unusual Events”
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