Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in the right hands, it can also produce incredible works of art. Pencils are often relegated to sketching and drafting.

Ben Heine, 28, crosses the fine line between art and reality by blending photographs with his own pencil sketches A randy rabbit, a beat-boxing sparrow and a woman trapped in her own nightmare are ...

"(Nan Coulter / Special Contributor) Pencil on Paper Gallery, co-owned by artists and married power couple Emmanuel and Valerie Gillespie, has quickly become a center for contemporary Black art ...

Many artists have used pencils to create works of art - but Dalton Ghetti creates ... "At school I would carve a friend's name into the wood of a pencil and then give it to them as a present.