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pencils, their live and times, pencil stories please, art

 
 
Reply Mon 9 May, 2016 04:12 pm
I figure many in life reach for pencils, if they can get there.

Pencils can make art, given a human, but so can many other modes/
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2016 05:50 pm
I figure posts of art made by with pencils will blossom.

Even I did that.

Speak up about pencil drawings you love.
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2016 07:06 pm
@ossobuco,
One of my favorite print artists was Kathe Kollwitz. Here are some of her pencil and charcoal works
https://perspectivaonline.com.br/2015/05/07/kathe-kollwitz/

Pencil work can achieve the feelings that the artist is trying to put forward. You can easily omit or over state a section of your work to make the viewer "get it"

She was the master at " achieving it"

Her life was an example of why artists of all kinds need a little suffering to achieve greatness.
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2016 07:23 pm
@farmerman,
Im forever doing drawings on tinted papers with pencils of graphite, white "chalk leads" and brown or red or bl ue.(only 3 colors at a time-not including the paper)
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2016 08:04 pm
@farmerman,
I'm an ordinary american with access to pencils, but of course some don't have it.

Which brings up pencil sharpeners, wonderful inventions.

Kollwitz, forever.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2016 08:34 pm
@ossobuco,
do people still doodle?

maybe less, given less pencils
Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2016 08:43 pm
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/1a/e0/71/vor-dem-pencil-museum.jpg


ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2016 10:46 pm
I see I must give examples - manana..
saab
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 04:15 am
@ossobuco,
I must admit I am not much for pencil drawings, not at all like Käthe Kollwitz
far too sad for me.

Now when coloring books for grown ups have become in fashion the factories can hardly keep up with the demand
http://visbyhandelstorg.se/wp-content/gallery/birgitta-unger-johansson/mg_3920.jpg
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farmerman
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 04:22 am
@Lordyaswas,
they had a pencil delivery truck? Did they deliver your pencils to ones doorstep?
How convenient.

Im thinking of starting up a PRINTER CARTRIDGE drone delivery service.
Olivier5
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 04:32 am
@ossobuco,
I do doodle quite a lot.

I prefer black ink pens to pencils, but am still using (and hence sharpening.... oh joy) pencils.
Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 05:06 am
@farmerman,
"they had a pencil delivery truck? "

They used to be everywhere once upon a time, but then they amalgamated it all with the milkmen in order to cut costs.

"Morning Mrs Jones, here are your two full cream as ordered, and the 2B graphite you wanted for the shading on that drawing you've been working on."
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saab
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 05:47 am
@Olivier5,
I have a pencil sharpener in every room I think. Just a small old fashioned.
PUNKEY
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 06:03 am
I bought an electric pencil sharpener about 10 years ago at a garage sale. I use it all the time.

My father was an artist and used pencils on vellum. My job was to keep his pencils sharpened. He used a rubber eraser.

I love #2 pencils with a good eraser.

Our community offers classes on Zentagle - sophisticated doodling, I call it.
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Linkat
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 06:10 am
@ossobuco,
Yeah you ever see that sponge-bob episode? A guy in a boat drops a pencil into the ocean ... sponge-bob finds it and everything he draws comes alive. But as a result there is an evil sponge-bob drawn and the evil sponge-bob grabs the pencil..

bikini bottom is never the same.

https://media.giphy.com/media/xywOeV7a71A8o/giphy-facebook_s.jpg
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Olivier5
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 06:20 am
@saab,
I have one in my drawer right now, the metalic type that gives a faint electric current when you put your tongue on the blade (because of the two different metals used for the body and for the blade). "Made in Germany" by KUM. Plastic ones are not so sturdy.
farmerman
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 06:27 am
@Olivier5,
so back then you were trying to become a sharp tongued boy eh?

As my dad would say
"Why the hell did it occur to you to put your tongue on the flagpole in the middle of a snowstorm"?
Olivier5
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 06:42 am
@farmerman,
Ha ha ha! Good one.

You guys never tried that? Put the tip of your tongue across the two parts (blade and body) and the difference in alloys will generate a tiny tiny electric flow.
saab
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 07:32 am
@Olivier5,
Did it - no elctric flow, just a cold tongue
Olivier5
 
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Reply Tue 10 May, 2016 07:38 am
@saab,
It's very very faint.
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