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Graphite Defined

The simplest and most immediate drawing media. A “lead pencil” is actually made up of a mixture of clay and the mineral graphite encased in cedarwood. Drawing pencils can range in hardnesses from a hard 8H to a soft 8B, with an HB halfway between the two.

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Artist offers classes for kids

Published January 9, 2009, 1:01 pm, Westport News

Westport-based artist Sherri Wolfgang has opened Wolfgang Art Studio, a teaching facility for students ages 8 to 17. She is looking forward to working with students, in small groups, teaching techniques in charcoal and graphite drawing as well painting and art history.

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AMD Unveils Graphite Supercomputer Fusion Render Cloud

Published January 9, 2009, 9:34 am, SYS-CON Media

Advanced Micro Devices unveiled plans for the company's AMD Fusion Render Cloud, a massively-parallel supercomputer, which will deliver next-generation games and applications. According to AMD, the new supercomputer is designed to break the one petaFLOPS barrier, and to process a million compute threads across more than 1,000 graphics processors. AMD said that the system is being designed to ...

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Where Outsiders Come in From the Cold

Published January 9, 2009, 5:10 am, New York Times

Now in its 17th year, the Outsider Art Fair has forsaken the Puck Building for midtown, and the art rises to the occasion of the more refined environment.

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Purdue University artist displays at Mt. St. Joe gallery

Published January 8, 2009, 11:23 pm, Dayton Daily News

The Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery at the College of Mount St. Joseph mounts "Drawing the Figure," an exhibition of more than 60 drawings from the private collection of artist Grace Benedict, Monday, Jan. 12.

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Winners of 17th annual state drawing and watercolor contest announced

Published January 8, 2009, 10:46 pm, Journal Gazette & Times-Courier

The artists selected to receive awards for the 17th Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois Biennial Exhibition were announced at a reception on Dec. 14 at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston.

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Art in Review

Published January 8, 2009, 9:57 pm, New York Times

Dana Hoey at Friedrich Petzel, Terry Winters at Matthew Marks, Nathalie Djurberg at Zach Feuer and more.

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'The Real Challenge Is Elsewhere' Opens at Siemens Sanat

Published January 8, 2009, 8:14 pm, Art Daily

Javed Mulani, Hey he is green 60x100cm, Graphite and Water Colour on Paper, 2008. ISTANBUL.- Contemporary art gallery Siemens Sanat, Istanbul welcomes the new year with a striking exhibition, “The Real Challenge Is Elsewhere”.

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Exhibition Examines Dynamic Relationship Between The Art of Pablo Picasso and Writing

Published January 8, 2009, 8:13 pm, Art Daily

Pablo Picasso, Dice, Packet of Cigarettes, and Visiting-Card, Paris, early 1914. Painted and printed paper, graphite, and watercolor.

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Background Note: Mozambique

Published January 8, 2009, 1:17 pm, Scoop.co.nz

Geography Area: 801,590 sq. km.; slightly less than twice the size of California. Major cities: Capital --Maputo (pop. 1.2 million--2005 est.); Beira, Matola, Nampula, Quelimane, Tete, Nacala.

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Colored Pencils

Published January 8, 2009, 10:30 am, San Diego Reader

Colored pencils evaporate in the Kelly household — here one day, gone the next. When my son sat down to work on a drawing last week, three pencils sat in front of him. Can’t do much with three colors. Eve set about finding some replacements.

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