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Pencil Artist Lynn Spoor

Pencil Artist of the Week: Lynn Spoor

This week’s featured pencil artist is Lynn Spoor, a painter and pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates pencil portraits that are so realistic, you’d swear they were photographs. Lynn was an artist at an early age, drawing and…
Drawn Album Art

The Best of: Hand-Drawn Album Art

I can appreciate a good photograph or a digital art piece on a record cover as much as the next audiophile, but there’s something extra special about album artwork that’s illustrated by hand. Here are five brilliantly sketched album covers…
Van Gogh

Pencil Sketches Star Van Gogh – PPC

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Pencils and Pop-Culture: Pencil Sketches Star Van Gogh It would be a herculean undertaking to add up the total number of square feet dedicated in museums to paintings and sculpture, versus the floorspace housing pencil sketches. However, it's…
Pencil Artist Nikira

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nikira

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This week’s featured pencil artist is a notebook sketcher and Palomino Blackwing 602 user from New York. Her name is Nikira, and her brand of in-the-moment sketching has the ability to transport you onto the subway, into an apartment in New…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Joe Fenton

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This week’s pencil artist is one that works on a grand scale. His name is Joe Fenton and his projects measure as much as five feet high by 8 feet wide. Each project’s size and scope and Joe’s attention to detail causes each project to…
Pencil Artist Alex Ross

Pencil Artist of the Week: Alex Ross

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Our first featured pencil artist of 2012 is well-known in the world of comics, but may not be familiar to people in other circles. His name is Alex Ross, and he is an artist that has produced work for both Marvel and DC comics since 1993. Early…
Pencil Artist Sharon Frank Mazgaj

Pencil Artist of the Week: Sharon Frank Mazgaj

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High-quality color pencil art is hard to find, so when we come across an artist as talented as this week’s featured pencil artist, we take notice. Her name is Sharon Frank Mazgaj, and she is a color pencil artist from Sandyville, Ohio. And,…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Angela Trotta Thomas

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This week’s pencil artist’s medium of choice is actually oil paints, but that doesn’t stop her from creating some fine pencil art too. Her name is Angela Trotta Thomas, and her pencil sketches embrace a timelessness that perfectly sums…

Sketchy Details: Artist, Image and Jane Austen

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Sketchy Details: Pencil Sketches of Jane Austen She sits at work, her back erect in over a small writing table. Scattered across its surface are the tools of her trade: a tablet of paper, a pen or two. Westminster Abbey looms outside her window,…
Pablo Picasso

Pencils and Pablo Picasso

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Pencils and Pablo Picasso He isn't our Pencil Artist of the Week, but one might call him one of the Pencil Artists of All-Time. Pablo Picasso, who was born 130 years ago today in Malaga, Spain, experimented with a host of artistic mediums including…