Behind the Pencils

07/29/2025

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06/20/2025

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05/07/2024

04/13/2024

08/17/2023

For some of us old-old-old school folks, nothing that says “back to school” like a big bunch of freshly sharpened, yellow No. 2 pencils. So here's a cheer for No. 2 Pencil Day and to the history of longtime pencil-maker Dixon Ticonderoga, whose headquarters are in Lake Mary. The company traces its heritage to 1812, when young Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, mixed graphite with clay, rolled it into strips, and baked it in his mother’s oven. The boy pressed the baked graphite into grooved cedar wood, and the first Dixon pencil was born, according to company lore. Write on, pencil fans.

08/30/2022

The Colored Pencil Society of America's 30th Annual International Exhibition.

We're delighted to announce the lovely De Luna Harps LLC. will be performing during our opening reception this Thursday (Sept. 1 @ 6-8pm). We invite all to join us for this special evening celebrating the Colored Pencil Society of America's 30th Annual International Exhibition. The event is free and open to the public. Meet and mingle with some of the exhibiting artists, and enjoy light refreshments. A cash bar will be available too!

08/21/2022

WOW!!!

A Carved Graphite Train on Tracks Emerges from Inside a Carpenter’s Pencil by artist Cindy Chinn