Google Presentation for July 23rd, 2014
the four presenters for the Google Presentation on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 Presentation by Nicolas: ONE PENCIL PER CHILD Nicolas will speak about the One Pencil Per Child program for which he has already prepared a video presentation. Click here to view the video …
Read MorePosted on: 07-22-2014 Posted in: PFA Guest Authors
The Pencil Tree
Once upon a borrowed time in the quiet Kandhava Forest by the Yamuna River, there lived a tree who was known by all the other trees as The Pencil Tree. Now – this was a borrowed time, a time borrowed well before History began. This was even before …
Read MorePosted on: 02-7-2014 Posted in: PFA Guest Authors
The Pencil Gift
Interview of artist Dalton Ghetti by Karim (photos by Sloan Howard) Forward by Olivia Ramsay Pencil artist and sculpture Dalton M. Ghetti was born in Sao Paolo, Brazil and came to the U.S. in 1985 at age 24. Most of the pencils he uses are …
Read MorePosted on: 02-6-2014 Posted in: Mezimbite Magazine, Pencil Art, Pencil Awareness
Breaking Pencils
by Karim Twesigye Jackson Kaguri goes by his middle name “Jackson” for convenience. Jackson says he owes everything good and positive and productive in his life to his parents’ willingness to buy and to break pencils: “We were five brothers and sisters. My childhood memories …
Read MorePosted on: 02-4-2014 Posted in: PFA Guest Authors
Color Pencils
A career as a Foreign Service Officer posted to the African Continent can range from very bland to very colorful. It can range from pleasant and peaceful to dramatic and dangerous. It all depends which African country the foreign service assignment posting is in and what is occurring within …
Read MorePosted on: 02-3-2014 Posted in: PFA Guest Authors
Pencil Dialogues
by Karim The following is a dialogue between Hava, a color pencil artist who was featured in the article Color Pencils and Lucinda, an art teacher at a primary school in Kent, England, as well as Lucinda’s students: Dear Hava I am a color pencil …
Read MorePosted on: 02-1-2014 Posted in: PFA Guest Authors
Pencil Sketches
An interview with Johannesburg pencil sketch artist Cathy Gatland Karim: Cathy, I was very intrigued by the sketch series you began a few weeks ago entitled “Salvage Yard” in Honeydew, Johannesburg. As you know, Pencils for Africa is at its core a recycling initiative. We recycle used pencils …
Read MorePosted on: 02-1-2014 Posted in: PFA Guest Authors
Artisanal Pencil Sharpening
by Karim Those of us who value our mind strive to keep it sharp. Should the same not be true for our pencils? That is a point worth making (artisanally) when reading Mr. David Rees‘ book How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise …
Read MorePosted on: 06-13-2012 Posted in: PFA Guest Authors
The Pencil Gift
Interview of artist Dalton Ghetti by Karim (photos by Sloan Howard) Forward by Olivia Ramsay Pencil artist and sculpture Dalton M. Ghetti was born in Sao Paolo, Brazil and came to the U.S. in 1985 at age 24. Most of the pencils he uses are …
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