Woodchuck here, reporting from the Frankfurt Paperworld show in Germany. Paperworld Frankfurt is Europe’s premier tradeshow for Writing Instruments, Stationary, School, Home, Office & Art Supply Products and is held at the end of January each year. My pick for this year’s big hits when it comes to innovative new pencil products are two new […]
Yesterday evening I had the great pleasure of discovering a gem in my own backyard. JLI Academy located right here in my hometown of Stockton, California is a two year old art academy founded by Jon Guerzon who comes from an animation background. And through this connection to animation he has found a powerful way […]
In the spirit of Christmas, Pencils.com has teamed up with, the creator of Pencilman, to sponsor production of a new Pencilman episode celebrating Christmas. See if you can notice one of Pencilman’s new buddies, the Palomino HB artist pencil. I’ve also posted this deleted scene with the full introduction of the new Palomino HB character. […]
Sean Sanzel, creator of the Pencilman video series has added another new video just in time for the holidays. Sean has also contributed a scene from his full length Pencilman movie now in development and this creative segment on dealing with writers block. You can also read our Artist Interview with Sean here.
Time and time again we’ve seen that children respond to the gift of a pencil and when that pencil encourages and reinforces development of positive school and life skills the power of that gift is multiplied. We’ve added several new items to our popular selection of Motivational pencils on the Pencils.com Store. Help support & […]
It’s that time again… time for back to school shopping. All students deserve the best supplies to do their best work. At our Pencils.com Store you can find all kinds of exciting new pencils and accessories to start the school year off right. Fun supplies can make the excitement of the first day linger throughout […]
I ran into this blog posted by Matthew James Taylor titled “The Art of Sharpening Pencils”. It’s a helpful resource on sharpening pencils for art purposes. In his post, he describes several pencil points he likes to use for different types of drawing. The image below is one Matthew claims to have created himself called […]
After two months the 150th Anniversary of Hymen Lipman’s patent on an eraser tipping concept for pencils continues to generate interest in writing about the continued survival of the pencil in today’s high tech world. Here is today’s Chicago Tribune article titled “Lowly pencil still the write tool” in which I am quoted on this […]
One of the class highlights was designing and implementing The inaugural Pencil Pushers Class at University of the Pacific Eberhardt School of Business (ESB) is winding down its spring semester this week. Kids Art Day at the Ballpark Contest held at the Pacific Tigers May 4th baseball game vs. UC Riverside. Children who attended the […]
The Pencils.com Store has added several new products from KUM, the German manufacturer of premium quality hand held pencil sharpeners. California Republic has for several years had an ongoing collaboration with KUM. The first product of this association was the special edition Palomino-KUM Long Point Sharpener which is a special edition of KUM’s Automatic Long […]
