Lesson Plan: What are Important Uses of Pencils?
Objective:
Learn the many uses for pencils, who uses them and why. Explore some of the famous people who used pencils; our Pencil VIPs.
Featured learning skills:
Association
Graphing
Biography
LESSON…
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Lesson Plan: What is the History of Pencils?
Objective:
Explore the history of pencils and discover the point of pencils in history
Featured learning skills:
Researching
Role playing
Timelines
LESSON PLAN
Step…
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No, that isn't a photograph of this week’s pencil artist, Paul Lung, it is a self-portrait he created using only a 0.5 mm technical pencil. Lung is an artist out of Hong Kong that specializes in photo-realistic pencil portraits of people and…
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Blackwing Better than an iPad Video
It's hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since we launched the Palomino Blackwing pencil. As we prepare for a giant Blackwing birthday celebration at the end of this month, we thought we'd take…
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“Going green” has become more than just a fad or trend, establishing itself as a persistent and necessary change. Being environmentally conscious means much more than recycling your cans and setting your thermostat at 78-degrees in the summer…
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The Inspiration Behind 11 Famous Band Names
For many bands, the most difficult part of the creative process is not composing songs or writing lyrics, it is coming up with a band name that represents the band as a whole. Since a band’s name…
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Pencil Artist of the Week: Mark Keller
This week’s pencil artist is actually much more than just that. His name is Mark Keller, and he is a musician, songwriter, producer, painter, filmmaker, drawer and teacher. And that’s just scratching…
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Contemporary Architecture Doing Louis Sullivan Proud
In 1943, Ayn Rand released her seminal novel The Fountainhead to audiences around the world. The book gained both acclaim and criticism for its support of the philosophy of Objectivism, a…
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Athletes and Creative Expression
Ask any child what they want to be when they grow up and you can expect one of a few stock answers: A) a fireman, B) an astronaut, C) a marine biologist or D) a professional athlete. These types of jobs are…
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Lyricists: The Sung and the Unsung
Most people associate songwriting with the act of writing lyrics when, in fact, that is only one of element involved in writing a song.
A songwriter is defined as “a person who writes the words or music…
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