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While talking to a bunch of artists I admire for a piece about the best drawing pencils, it became clear that, for the most part, the relationship between artist and drawing tool is as personal as ...

All summer at the Strathmore Mansion in North Bethesda, you may find gallery-goers huddled around a small, photorealistic depiction of a fruit in a plastic bag. “Hold on,” one of them may whisper, “is ...

PENCIL-PUSHER: A tray of Faber-Castell coloring pencils, as enticing as jelly beans, are never far from Karl Lagerfeld’s elbow. Over a career spanning more than six decades, he has used them to create ...