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Pencil Artist Gemma Gylling

Pencil Artist of the Week: Gemma Gylling

This week’s featured pencil artist is Gemma Gylling, a pencil artist living in Valley Springs, California who specializes in color pencil animal art. An avid traveler, Gemma uses her experiences and the photographs she captures to create captivating…
Pencil Artist Denis Chernov

Pencil Artist of the Week: Denis Chernov

This week’s featured pencil artist is Denis Chernov, an artist living and working in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He works in a number of different mediums, including paints and charcoals, but his favorite artistic tool is the graphite pencil, which…
Blackwing Pearl

Creative Ways to Use the Blackwing Pearl

Friends and fellow pencil-heads, I am obsessed with the Blackwing Pearl. Now, my obsession with pencils is well documented on this site (where was the Pearl last year when I was crafting my pencil-themed Kentucky Derby chapeau?), so the fact…
Textbook Doodles

Countdown of the 7 Best Textbook Doodles

I was always an avid doodler, and an avid consumer of doodles in used textbooks. I especially enjoyed the textbook scavenger hunt. You know the one - on page 12 it says turn to page 45, on page 45 it says turn to page 26, etc., until you finally…
Creativity in Los Angeles

Exploring Creativity in the City of Angels

Explore Creativity in L.A. at the Blackwing Experience In case you haven't heard, Palomino will be hosting an event celebrating creativity and the history of pencils called the Blackwing Experience in sunny Southern California this month. With…
Pencil Artist Paul harmon

Pencil Artist of the Week: Paul Harmon

This week’s featured pencil artist is Paul Harmon, a comic artist, doodler and toy maker living in Brooklyn. Paul usually works with nib-tipped pens, but one drawing we found on his Deviant Art profile stood out from the rest. The drawing…
Pencil Artist Adonna Khare

Pencil Artist of the Week: Adonna Khare

This week’s featured artist is Adonna Khare, a pencil artist living in Burbank, California. Adonna creates large-scale pencil drawings depicting fantastically realized animals in fantastically absurd situations; sipping tea, supporting trees…
Standardized Testing

Pencils: The New Standard in Standardized Testing

Pencils: The New Standard in Standardized Testing The room is deathly quiet, except for the ticking of the clock. In front of you, a sealed test packet rests on your desk. Your fingers hover over two freshly-sharpened number two pencils. You…
Pencil Artist Scott Wilke

Pencil Artist of the Week: Scott Wilke

This week’s featured pencil artist is Scott Wilke, a color pencil artist, cartoonist and illustrator who was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He creates color pencil portraits of celebrities, athletes, loved ones and strangers using…
The lost art of passing notes

The Lost Art of Passing Notes

Rediscovering the Lost Art of Passing Notes When I was young, passing notes was a favorite pastime. My friends and I were forever inventing creative ways to pass notes without the teachers finding out. It wasn't until my junior year of high…