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Drawing Lessons for Advanced Artists: Light Movement in Drawings

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Drawing Lessons: Light Movement in Drawings INTRODUCTION These drawings look quite alive.  But their liveliness is not from detail since the detail between them is very different.  Instead, their liveliness comes from the fact they are…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Leslie Brown

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Leslie Brown, a teacher living in Olathe, Kansas. While he isn’t teaching, Leslie spends his spare time drawing everything from celebrities and athletes to landscapes and buildings. In fact, judging…

The Copying Pencil & It’s History

Doug Martin's Pencil Pages provides a very thorough and the most informative article I've ever read regarding the Copying Pencil. The article entitled, "The Copying Pencil: Composition, History, and Conservation Implications" which was written…

The Myth of the Yellow Pencil

With the recent 150th anniversary of the patent of the eraser tipped pencil, I have seen several new references around the web about pencils and a few indicating that 75% of pencils sold in the United States are painted yellow. At our Pencils.com site…

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