12 Year Old Songwriter Sensation Ned The Kids Dylan
Ned Mansfield, better known by his stage name Ned The Kids Dylan, is an energetic and free-spirited musician and songwriter who plays original music with an authenticity not seen on the…
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This week’s featured artist is Mike O’Connell, a pencil artist living in a rural village in Staffordshire, UK. Mike has captured images of David Bowie, Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and more in graphite form. On average, each…
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Youth Art Month
March is Youth Art Month – a whole month of dedicated to promoting and celebrating youth art and art education. It was founded in 1961 and called Children’s Art Month until 1969, when the name was changed to include junior…
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Pencils.com spoke with Iraq War Veteran Matt Gallagher, author of, "KABOOM: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War," about his work on the recent anthology Fire and Forget.
Edited by Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton,…
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Drawing Lessons: The Importance of Sketching
Sketching is the fundamental building block for an artist. It is used to develop a personal visual vocabulary. Sketches are visual exercises in problem solving and provides the opportunity to:
hone…
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Celebrating International Women's Day
March 8th is International Women’s Day, which honors the work of the suffragettes and celebrates women’s achievements. Ironically, we working women do not have the day off. I guess we’ll just have…
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Well folks, we just finished up an intense movie award season, from the Oscars to the Golden Globes, to the Independent Spirit Awards and every professional film-making guild under the sun. I fully admit to not having seen any of those films…
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Learn how to add texture to your drawings in this entry into Diane Wright's drawing lessons series.
Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures
So what is texture? We touch an object and can feel that it is smooth or rough, but how do we translate…
This week’s featured pencil artist is Stuart Clark, a pencil artist from the UK who specializes in creating large-scale, life-like, highly-detailed portraits of people and animals. We actually discovered Stuart on our Facebook page, where…
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If you're like me, you've wondered whether the iconic "Boombox Scene" from Say Anything would've been quite so dramatic if John Cusack was holding up an MP3 player instead of a boombox that housed a mixtape.
Or can you imagine High Fidelity without…
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