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Pencil Artist of the Week: Nick Sickelton
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured artist creates pencil art that is a bit different from our standard fare. His name is Nick Sickelton, and he is an art director, logo designer, letterer and multi-disciplined creative who loves to create with pencils.…
Introducing the Redesigned Pencils.com
Pencil NewsAnyone who has visited Pencils.com in the past few days may have noticed a few changes. We’ve rebuilt the site from the ground up using as many of the Web’s best practices as possible to give you a cleaner design, shorter load times and…

Pencil Artist of the Week: June Wright
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is June Wright, an animator, artist and designer from Dublin, Ireland. She has worked with studios ranging from Fox Animation and Don Bluth Studios, to Warner Bros. and MGM, and has on the feature films Anastasia,…

Disneyland and the Art of Imagineering
TV, FILM & BOOKS“To all who come to this happy place; welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past...and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the…

The Pencil, Always in Style – PPC
Pencils and Pop CulturePencils and Pop-Culture: The Pencil, Always in Style
I’ve written before about the inherent seductive qualities of pencils. However, for all my admiration of pencil skirts and, in limited instances, pencils mustaches, I had never seen just…

Mad Men Water Cooler – “Mystery Date”
Mad Men Water Cooler, Pencil News, TV, FILM & BOOKSMad Men Water Cooler - "Mystery Date"
Mad Men took a darker turn on Sunday night, with a feverish, hallucinating Don Draper finding himself in a metaphorical struggle with his philandering past, Sally getting scared out of her wits by the…

Pencils and Pop Culture: Who Will Take the Project Runway All-Star Title?
Pencils and Pop CulturePencils and Pop Culture: Who Will Take the Project Runway All-Star Title?
Tomorrow night is the season finale of “Project Runway: All-Stars,” which has pitted outstanding designers from nine seasons of “Project Runway” in a winner-takes-all…

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Man Who Made an Icon
TV, FILM & BOOKSBreakfast at Tiffany's and the Man Who Made an Icon
By far the most iconic image in the film adaptation of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, strolling down 5th Avenue in the early, empty hours of the morning…

Pencils and Pop Culture: High Fashion at Super Bowl Half Time
ART, MUSIC, Pencils and Pop Culture, SPORTS, TV, FILM & BOOKSPencils and Pop Culture: High Fashion at Super Bowl Half Time
So there I was, watching the Super Bowl, nominally interested in the game itself (I was busy paying attention to the commercials), when they announced that the half-time show was…

