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Pencil Artist Alex Ross

Pencil Artist of the Week: Alex Ross

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Our first featured pencil artist of 2012 is well-known in the world of comics, but may not be familiar to people in other circles. His name is Alex Ross, and he is an artist that has produced work for both Marvel and DC comics since 1993. Early…
Pencil Artist Sharon Frank Mazgaj

Pencil Artist of the Week: Sharon Frank Mazgaj

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High-quality color pencil art is hard to find, so when we come across an artist as talented as this week’s featured pencil artist, we take notice. Her name is Sharon Frank Mazgaj, and she is a color pencil artist from Sandyville, Ohio. And,…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Angela Trotta Thomas

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This week’s pencil artist’s medium of choice is actually oil paints, but that doesn’t stop her from creating some fine pencil art too. Her name is Angela Trotta Thomas, and her pencil sketches embrace a timelessness that perfectly sums…
Boing Boing

Follow the Bouncing Ball: Mark Frauenfelder and Boing Boing

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The Internet is a mysterious place full of memes, message board wars and countless cat videos. Then, amongst the confusion and disorder, there’s BoingBoing.net. Headed by co-founder Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing has been creating order out…

The Blackwing Sessions: Christian Tamburr

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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…
Pencil Artist Steve Prescott

Pencil Artist of the Week: Steve Prescott

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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…
Jim Morrison Poetry

Lighting the Fire: The Poetry of Jim Morrison

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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,…
Walt Disney

Pursuing Your Passions: Lessons Learned from Walt Disney

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Pursuing Your Passions: Lessons Learned from Walt Disney Walt Disney once said of the origins of his most famous character, “Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at…
Pencil Artist Allen Williams

Pencil Artist of the Week: Allen Williams

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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…

Pencil Artist of the Week: David Poppie

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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…