Friday, February 2, 2007

2B or not 2B?


mm 01 by Kimiyo
Originally uploaded by mapmakr.
Appropriate, sustainable technology = a pencil. Marvellous things. There's actually more to them than meets the eye. From the technical point of view see The Pencil Pages, The Pencil Museum in Cumberland, aptly in Beatrix Potter country, or The Pencil Place for collectors. And people even blog about pencils. See the indefatigable Paper and Pencil.

Beyond the technical, some become lyrical about the joys of pencils. "A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere." Joyce Myers. Get down what you see and then redraw or edit as Truman Capote put it: "I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil." And when you don't have a pencil? "One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil." Balthus


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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2007 at 8:28 PM

    In North America 75% of pencils sold are yellow. Unlike bicycles.

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  2. Barry NatuschFebruary 8, 2007 at 9:39 PM

    I wonder why this is so. When I googled American pencils pretty early in the list was boxes of yellow laquer pencils coming in dozens.

    Did you see drawings at the The Pencilist? Because of spelling difference, I'm sure no relation to you.

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