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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,…

Is the Blackwing “Better than the iPad?”

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In the past month, Pencils.com and Studio 602 have launched "The Blackwing Sessions" and "The Blackwing Experience," two pages in the next chapter of the Blackwing's legacy. Now, here's a look at another recent addition to that legacy, The Boston…

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…

Sketchy Details: Artist, Image and Jane Austen

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Sketchy Details: Pencil Sketches of Jane Austen She sits at work, her back erect in over a small writing table. Scattered across its surface are the tools of her trade: a tablet of paper, a pen or two. Westminster Abbey looms outside her window,…

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…
Blackwing

Cal Cedar Launches the Blackwing Experience

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…

From Blackwing to Blue Eyes – Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra

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From Blackwing to Blue Eyes - Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra The 1950s were a turbulent decade for legendary singer and actor Frank Sinatra. Early years saw him lose his voice due to vocal chord hemmoraging, he divorced his first wife and entered…
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…

What is a No. 2 Pencil?

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What is a No. 2 Pencil? When most people think pencils, the No. 2 pencil is the first thing that comes to mind. But what does the "2" on a No. 2 pencil actually mean? And what do all of the "B's," "H's" and "HB's" being thrown around mean,…