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Pencil Artist of the Week: "Uncle Bob"

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Following up last week's pencil artist's Moleskine sketch, we bring you Uncle Bob, a featured artist on 'SkineArt.com.This study of a hand playing a guitar was sketched with various grades of Palomino pencils! (check out the store for a set…
Literary one-hit wonders

Artist Quotes

"At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important." -M.C. Escher "The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it." -Banksy "The…

‘Artist Lessons’ and ‘Writer Tips’

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Pencils.com is known for having a great online store with quality school and art supplies. What many people don’t know is that we also offer a number of ‘Artist Lessons’ and ‘Writer Tips’. These resources are available on Pencils.com…

Blackwing Project: Take 1

Here at Pencils.com we are pleased to introduce Take 1 of our newly established Blackwing Project. The Blackwing Project is a new collaboration with artists, writers, musicians and fans of the Blackwing pencil to share creative inspiration enabled…

Diane Wright- The Queen of Landscape Pencil Art

Visit 'Featured Artist' Diane Wright's personal website at www.dianewrightfineart.com. She also frequently posts updates on her blogs: dwrightart.blogspot.com featuring works in progress and dwrightsketches.blogspot.com featuring sketches and…

Diane Wright- Landscape Specialist

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across Diane Wright’s blog. Her drawings completely blew me away. I decided that I would take the time to e-mail her and ask her a few questions. Beautiful Landscapes is a book that Diane sent me and I was amazed.…

Sketching at Work: Racing Car Designer

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As a follow on to my last post on sketching in the workplace I was catching up on one of my  interests this morning which was the Formula 1 Racing Series.  Amazing, I came across this  article on Red Bull Racing's F1 car designer Adrian…

Jagged Lines of Imagination Academy Hosts Mel Shaw Exhibition

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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.…

Animators, Apes, and Palominos

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Palomino graphite pencil has been named the official pencil of Grace Animation Studios, the creator of the Avenging Apes of Africa. The Avenging Apes are helping lead the way in a new genre of “ed”utainment…