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Lesson Plan: How to Create Recycled Pencil Board Art

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Lesson Plan: How to Create Recycled Pencil Board Art Objective: Learn creative ways to recycle common everyday objects that might otherwise be sent to landfills. Featured learning skills: Creativity     LESSON PLAN Step…
Pencil Artist Paul Lung

Pencil Artist of the Week: Paul Lung

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No, that isn't a photograph of this week’s pencil artist, Paul Lung, it is a self-portrait he created using only a 0.5 mm technical pencil. Lung is an artist out of Hong Kong that specializes in photo-realistic pencil portraits of people and…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Jennifer Maestre

This week, we are continuing last week’s theme of pencil artists that create art out of pencils rather than with them. This week’s pencil artist, Jennifer Maestre, is a pencil artist that creates pencil sculptures that are “inspired by…
Palomino Packaging

New Packaging for Palomino Pencils

New Packaging for Palomino Pencils Pencils.com is pleased to announce that our brand new custom designed packaging line for Palomino pencils has arrived. Now, whenever you purchase a set of our premium Palomino graphite pencils, Palomino color…
Pencil Artist Mark Langley

Pencil Artist of the Week: Mark Langley

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Our pencil artist this week hails from the UK, specifically Belper, in Derbyshire, England, and goes by the name of Mark Langley. His works are created using a combination of graphite pencils and color pencils, and feature subjects that range…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Armin Mersmann

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This week’s pencil artist may seem like an odd choice at first glance, but that is only because his graphite portraits look so natural and lifelike, it is almost impossible to discern them from an actual photograph of the individual. Armin…

How Pencils Inspired Bob Dylan

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How Pencils Inspired Bob Dylan Often, the hardest part about creative expression is trying to get started.  It’s a challenge everyone faces at one time or another, including the great Bob Dylan. While Dylan is known first and foremost…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Steamkid

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This week's pencil artist is an anonymous blogger with the Tumblr moniker Steamkid, perhaps a reference to the steampunk sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy. Though her blog's archives are short, you can see the progression from horizon-line…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Pat Perry

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This week, we ran across this pencil artist on Tumblr (linked from Big Eye Doll). It's Pat Perry, or P@ Perry, according to the doodled header on the top of Pat's website. At this point, we're not sure of Pat's age, location, or even gender,…

Chinese Pencil Anti-Dumping Duties Revisted

Note: This is republished from WoodChuck's personal blog about the pencil industry, Timberlines. See the original post and comment thread by clicking here. Chinese Pencil Anti-Dumping Duties Revisted Bloomberg.com published an article on June…