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Pencil Artist Christopher Hayes Kennedy

Pencil Artist of the Week: Christopher Hayes Kennedy

This week’s featured pencil artist is Christopher Hayes Kennedy, a pencil artist who goes by the handle chkennedy on DeviantArt. Christopher’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with landscape paintings, graphite portraits and sketches of hands.…
Too Cool to do Drugs

Anti-Drug Pencil Fail

Watch out what your belongings are telling you to do. As fourth grader Kodi Mosier of Ticonderoga Elementary in New York discovered, sharpening your pencil could elicit a much different message than the original. The Bureau for At-Risk…
Pencil Artist Crystal

Pencil Artist of the Week: Crystal (yummypomegranate)

This week’s featured pencil artist is Crystal, a pencil artist, painter and photographer who goes by the handle yummypomegranate on DeviantArt. Crystal’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with sketches, doodles, and paintings depicting everything…

Environmental Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries

The United States has a rich literary tradition.  A big part of that tradition has to do with writers who explored the virtues of the ecosystem and humankind’s relationship to the land.  Here are three environmental writers whose works have…
Earth Day Pencils.com

6 Earth Day Deeds

Earth Day helps us remember that there are alternative, non-wasteful ways to spend our time. Luckily, being green can benefit your pocketbook as much as it benefits the earth. The following list contains 6 Earth Day deeds for rookies and experienced…
Recycle pencils

Green Tips: Recycle Used and Broken Pencils

Growing up, there was a junk drawer in my parents' kitchen populated by all the usual suspects: bent paperclips, snapped rubber bands, crumpled post-it notes. By far the most prevalent objects in the drawer, however, were pencils. There were…
Pencil Artist Augusto Abarca

Pencil Artist of the Week: Augusto Abarca

This week’s featured pencil artist is Augusto Abarca, a graphic designer living and working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Augusto’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with drawings that range from character designs and fan art, to caricature and…
Taysir Batniji

Taysir Batniji’s Stunning Pencil Shaving Installation

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Taysir Batniji is truly a jack of all trades in the art world. Born in Gaza in 1966, Batniji has studied and created art all over the world. He attended Al-Najah University in Palestine, the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Bourges Université…

Your Guide to Pencils on Twitter

We love sharing news and updates with our followers, but sometimes the best way to get news is in real-time and on the front lines. Below is a list of users and hashtags to follow on Twitter to make sure you're always up to speed on what's happening…
Pencil Artist Thiago

Pencil Artist of the Week: Thiago (kikodv)

This week’s featured pencil artist is Thiago, a pencil artist from Brazil who goes by the handle kikodv on DeviantArt. Thiago’s profile features a gallery dedicated to his non-colored originals and a gallery dedicated to their digitally-finished…