Today, Studio 602 at Pencils.com is proud to introduce our first Blackwing Featured Musician and the inaugural episode of The Blackwing Sessions, a series that will showcase how using a Blackwing pencil inspires art and facilitates the creative process. Blackwing Sessions with Christian Tamburr Christian Tamburr is one of the world’s most accomplished multi-instrumental […]
I had the esteemed pleasure of sitting down with Blackwing Featured Artist Christian Tamburr on the heels of his newest album “Places.” Interview with Blackwing Musician Christian Tamburr Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Merritt Island, Florida, which is east of Orlando on the coast just outside of Cape Canaveral. […]
Cal Cedar Launches the Blackwing Experience After more than 12 years off the market, Blackwing pencils are back. The pencils have a storied history, with creative legends like Stephen Sondheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Chuck Jones, and even John Lennon choosing the Blackwing as their preferred writing instrument. John Steinbeck went through 60 of them a […]
This week’s featured pencil artist was recommended to us by one of our followers on Twitter. His name is Steve Prescott, and he is a fantasy artist living in Columbus, Ohio. He also claims that he isn’t a poet, but the images he creates with a pencil can definitely be described as poetry on paper. […]
Lighting the Fire: The Poetry of Jim Morrison “The time to hesitate is through,/No time to wallow in the mire,/Try now we can only lose,/And our love becomes a funeral pyre.” These words, whose rhyme and meter evoke images of Byron, Wordsworth and other Romantics, were not penned by a nineteenth-century poet in a top […]
The work from this week’s pencil artist strays slightly from the pencil portraits and landscapes that we have featured in the past, but that is in no way a bad thing. His name is Allen Williams, and his pencil work features some of the most surreal and whimsical subjects we’ve ever featured on Pencils.com. These […]
Introducing Pencils.com Gift Certificates The season of giving is officially upon us; the air is colder, newspaper ads are thicker and wish lists are longer. We know that this time of year can be stressful for everyone, which is why we’re excited to announce something that we hope is going to make this holiday season […]
We’ve posted the work from this week’s pencil artist on our Tumblr, but that was before we knew who he was. His name is David Poppie, and he is an artist who creates art out of everyday items that are disregarded and ignored by the average person. He uses everything from matches to tea bags […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is a bit of detour from our usual featured artists. Her name is Ann Kullberg, and she chooses to create her pencil art with color pencils rather than graphite pencils. But, hey, this is Pencils.com, and a color pencil is still a pencil. It doesn’t hurt that the results are […]
This week’s pencil artist is one of our followers on Twitter, and the second we saw his work, we knew he was our next Pencil Artist of the Week. His name is Jonny Lancaster, and he hails from across the pond in the north-eastern part of England. His pencil drawings feature subjects that range from […]
