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Pencil Artist Michela

Pencil Artist of the Week: Michela

This week’s featured pencil artist is Michela, a pencil artist, t-shirt designer and painter living in Italy. Michela goes by the handle Mikyechelon on DeviantArt and, after browsing through her gallery, it’s apparent that she is extremely…
Nicolas-Jacque Conté

The Erasable Podcast Episode 2 is Up

The Erasable Podcast is back with their second episode and, unlike the Star Wars prequels, this Episode 2 is pretty awesome. Andy, Tim and Johnny discuss the pencil terms they'll be using during their podcast episodes, dissect the anatomy of…
John Lennon's Drawings

John Lennon’s Drawings To Be Auctioned

When you hear the name John Lennon, you probably hear "Imagine" playing in your head. The images his name calls to mind have more to do with making music and crossing streets in an iconic fashion than any other art form. And yet, John Lennon…

Interview with Alexandra Charmaine Ortiz

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Alexandra Charmaine Ortiz, M.F.A., is  a very busy artist! She is Artist in Residence at the Art Students League of New York’s Vytlacil Campus, has an exhibit called Collapsed Fields currently on display, and is launching her own pencil company…
Pencil Artist Roudy Courser

Pencil Artist of the Week: Roudy Courser

This week’s featured pencil artist creates sketches of something very dear to my heart: classic Volkswagen vehicles.  And, being that I spent a majority of my Saturday this weekend helping a friend pick out the latest addition to his VW family,…

The Erasable Podcast

We're excited. Actually, let me rephrase that. We're psyched out of our minds. Why, you ask? Let me tell you. Last week saw the introduction of The Erasable Podcast, a podcast dedicated solely to the love of wooden pencils. It's the…

Does Chaos Breed Creativity?

Three scientifically valid experiments were conducted to see the affects of chaotic surroundings on peoples’ decisions and ideas. This study is not proposing that disorganized people have these characteristics, but is focused on when an individual…
Pencil Artist Pablo Damas

Pencil Artist of the Week: Pablo Damas

This week's featured artist is pencil artist Pablo Damas, a graphic designer, tattoo artist and apparel designer living in Los Angeles, California. Pablo creates works that are raw and expressive, utilizing deep blacks and soft greys to create…

Rafael Araujo’s Drawings Merge the Worlds of Math and Art

Math and Art are not two subjects that I often think of as being connected - at least, until I discovered the work of Venezuelan artist Rafael Araujo, who uses principles of Geometry to represent the mathematical complexity of nature on canvas. Ever…

Do Scented Pencils Make You Smarter?

Get a higher G.P.A. without studying longer, altering habits, or spending extra time with the teacher. All a person has to do is change the pencil they are using. Does it sound too good to be true? This is the outcome of a study creating waves…