Perhaps we’re biased, but there’s a unique beauty to drawing pencils that isn’t matched by your everyday writing pencil. Usually painted in a pleasing color and embossed with their name and grade, ...

The main room at Graphite Arts Center was quiet as a library Tuesday evening as 40 people watched Urban Sketchers founder ...

Sketching is an expressive activity that enables people to manifest their emotions and artistic imagination. It is a talent that can be honed through practice, however, employing the right instruments ...

They look like pieces of art — they’re quite decorative, sitting on a desk as such — but the small hand-carved objects serve another purpose. They work as pencils. The graphite sculptures, produced by ...