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 ...

My mom is the best pencil sharpener I ever saw. Each point was a work of art. A tiny black lead sculpture. And like fingerprints, no two were alike. My early toddler drawings prompted the phrase ...

In 1994, Cuban artist Jose Fuster started plastering his home with colorful mosaic palms, animals and Picasso-esque ...

Philips won this month’s Nature Coast Art League Artist of the Month for an outstanding pencil drawing of a horse that ...

STURBRIDGE — Hidden deep in the woods, nearly overgrown by wildlife, lies the remnants of a former graphite mine, with a direct tie to the "world’s best pencil." Known as the Tantiusques ...

Luckily for all artisans – both scientific and virtuosic – stationery experts over in Japan have mastered the art of crafting ... a selection of the best mechanical pencils for artists and ...