Discover how 19th-century graphite mines near Ticonderoga and Lake George fueled the Dixon pencil empire, creating company towns and making New York the world's second-largest graphite producer before ...

Coloured pencils can be blended on the page and their tone can be altered by pressure. Some coloured pencils are water-soluble. Water can be brushed over them, or they can be used on wet paper to ...

From afar, these images look like black and white photographs, and up close, they might appear to be the work of digital enhancement. In fact, these exquisite portraits and still lifes are simply the ...

Tonight, we introduce you to two NH creatives who use pencils or graphite as their primary tools in making stunning works of art. For one artist his pencil was what got him through a hard time and ...

A batch of graphite has just been delivered to this pencil factory in Germany. Once it’s been thoroughly mixed with clay, it’s ready to go into production, with around 550 pounds of the stuff making ...

Photoshop CC 2017 tutorial showing how to transform photos into the look of soft graphite pencil drawings and how to replace ...

WE’VE been putting pencil to paper to write and draw for centuries. But it turns out that the marks we have been making with graphite pencils contain minuscule flakes of a two-dimensional material ...