This week’s Pencil Artist of the Week is Gabriela Handal. She is a draftsman, and her work revolves around the human figure. She tends to focus on portraits, but she has been trying to explore the entirety of the figure more. Her favored tools are graphite pencils for smaller work, and charcoal for medium to […]
If you have ever placed an order with us, you may have noticed that your credit card statement shows a charge from CA Cedar Products. California Cedar Products Company (also known as CalCedar) is Pencils.com‘s parent company, and also owns the Blackwing and ForestChoice brands. But who is CalCedar? Founded in 1917, CalCedar has become […]
Two great weeks in one! This week is both Screen-Free Week and Children’s Book Week. Screen Free Week Screen-Free Week is an annual, international celebration when families, schools, and communities swap digital entertainment for the joys of life beyond the screen. Instead of watching TV, surfing the web, or playing with apps and video games, […]
Drawtasticon is a festival of art and animation that celebrates 2D animation. Drawtasticon will feature local indie artists, as well as 4 screening sessions that show original animated films from around the world. There are three Award/Movie sessions in the evening. Festival guests Lawrence Ruelos and Dean Yeagle will be concluding two of those sessions […]
This week’s Pencil Artist of the Week is Анатолий Гребнев. He is a talented Ukrainian based artist and animator. To see more of his amazing work, be sure to follow his Instagram @aj_donis Take a look at his work and let us know if you like it as much as we do! Do you know […]
In January 2015, Linda Shrewsbury launched CursiveLogic on Kickstarter. The goal was to create a guide with simple lessons to help revive the dying art of cursive. CursiveLogic is an “innovative method that teaches the entire lowercase alphabet in four simple lessons.” Rather than taking the approach of repetition, CursiveLogic groups letters by shape. There […]
Did you know that February is International Correspondence Writing Month? International Correspondence Writing Month (or InCoWriMo for short) is a challenge to hand-write and mail a letter, card, note, or postcard every day throughout the month of February. So how can you participate in InCoWriMo? It’s really easy! Just write some sort of correspondence to […]
Happy National Handwriting Day! Thanks to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association, January 23rd is a day to celebrate handwriting. Since 1977, National Handwriting Day has been a day to celebrate and re-explore the purity of handwriting. There are many studies that show the benefit of handwriting. One popular noted benefit of handwriting is seen in taking […]
This week, we are happy to feature artist Theresa Finnelli. She draws adorable and cute characters that just brings a smile to my face. Here’s a little more information from Theresa herself: I love drawing fun and expressive characters. I generally draw superhero type characters whom I’d love to see in a cartoon series one day […]
This week’s pencil artist of the week is Nathan Anderson. Similar to a previous Pencil Artist of the Week, Nathan likes to sketch into small notebooks. Here’s a little bio from the artist: I am an engineer living in Seattle, WA. I keep very busy with work and family, but I’m always looking to squeeze […]
