Fierce competition between two Tokyo pencil makers led to a "Golden Age" of Japanese pencil manufacturing from 1952-1967. As detailed in this article from the St. Louis Art Supply website, Tombow ...

This is an opinionated Mother’s Day tribute. This is a revised drawing from my Mother’s Day tribute essay first published in 2013. Mom passed later that year. I was a bad thumb sucker, as my ...

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Aaron Bartholmey, of Colfax, invited the community to look at his pencil collection as he counted every single one over the summer. At the time, the Guinness World Record for such a collection sat ...

This is a revised drawing from my Mother’s Day tribute essay published here in 2013. Mom passed later that year.