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Tools for Possibilities: issue no. 202

Pencils from Above Jigsaw Puzzle

An artist's collection of colored pencils.

The Best Mechanical Pencils

How the No. 2 pencil became a uniquely American school supply staple

For generations of Americans, a sharpened No. 2 pencil has represented childhood and coming of age. Still a fixture of back-to-school shopping lists, it outlines a child’s first le...

Pencil Knitting Patterns

Getting ready for back to school makes me think about pencil crafts, so let’s take a look at some pencil themed knitting patterns!  I recently made a pencil on a circular knitting...

The Best Pencils for Writing and Schoolwork

Surgeons use free IKEA pencils to mark bone cuts

The free IKEA pencil — the little stub in the box next to the maps and measuring tapes — has changed color over the years, from blue to yellow to bare wood, but never its dimension...

Go Behind the Scenes of Blackwing Pencils’ Ode to Analog Creativity

The company shares how pencils are created in a multi-step process in factories in Japan and California. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member to...

These delightfully cheap retro pens are the art world's best-kept secret

Once you've tried LePen, it's hard to use anything else.

How Blackwing pencils (and Hagamoro Fulltouch chalk) are made

We're big fans of the classic Blackwing pencil (here's a 24-year-old post by Mark Frauenfelder from the depths of the Blackwing Dark Age), and its makers recently posted a video sh...

How to Draw a Pencil: Back to School Directed Drawing and Writing Activities for 2026

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way for your elementary students to practice writing in your classroom the beginning of the school year? This back to school directed drawing...

Ink And Wash

For our optional World Watercolor Month prompt of “Pointed,” I sketched one of my favorite arts supplies in the form of a fountain pen. I had briefly moved to fineliners … Continue...

Pencil Cross Stitch Patterns

Last year I shared my cute pencil cross stitch bookmark pattern, so I thought this year maybe I would look for more pencil cross stitch patterns to celebrate back to school or the...

Get the Japanese stationery aesthetic for under $20 with these back-to-school essentials

From fountain pens to markers, starting at just $5.

When a child sprinkles chalk pastel dust across dark paper and smudges it with a fingertip, the soft calcium carbonate p...

Chalk pastels are almost pure pigment pressed into a stick, with barely any binder holding the particles together. That is why a fingertip can blend a mark in ways no brush can — a...

REVIEW:  Holbein Artists’ Watercolor Pencils 50 Color Set And Palette

The Holbein 50‑Color Watercolor Pencil Set is genuinely super. All fifty colors correspond to hues found across Holbein’s other mediums — watercolor paint, gouache, and acrylic — a...

Back-to-School Shopping List for the End-of-Times Academic Year

Welcome back, students and parents, for another, possibly the last, functioning school year! Both the literacy crisis and moral deterioration of our leaders pretty much guarantee o...

Ink-redible Origins

Thiele writes... We often talk about gratitude in the Zentangle practice. Once we have our space and our supplies ready, we take a moment to touch our paper and be grateful for th...

*HOT* Ticonderoga Pencils, 72-Count Box for just $11.60 shipped!

This super popular deal is back! Grab ’em while you can! Amazon has these Ticonderoga Pencils, 72-count for just $11.60 shipped when you check out through Subscribe & Save! Sig...

Four Candies Mechanical Pencil Set only $4.94 shipped!

Get ready for back-to-school with this great deal on this cute mechanical pencil set! Amazon has this Four Candies 0.5mm Mechanical Pencil Set with Case, Lead Refills, and Erasers...

Ohuhu Fineliner Black and Color Drawing Pen Review

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ちょっと高級な筆記具って、最近流行ってますよね。もうかなり息の長いブームになっている万年筆をはじめ、ボールペンも近頃は中価格帯以上の新製品が次々と発売されており、いずれも人気になっ...