Blackwing Blog

Artist Carrie South, known as Crap Panther on social media, is a self-taught illustrator based in Oklahoma City, OK. Carrie's work is deeply rooted in the natural world. Drawing inspiration from her childhood spent in the Cascade Mountains,...

Meet Abbey! For our newest Makers series feature, we had the pleasure of getting to know Abbey Sy, artist, author, and creator. Read her story here!

Get ready to be inspired! For our newest Makers series feature, we had the pleasure of chatting with Sarah Simon, the artist behind @themintgardener.

We had the opportunity to chat with Robert Brighton, award-winning author and creator of the Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries and other acclaimed titles.

Meet comic book artist and illustrator Leslie Hung for our Artist Series Notebooks featuring her artwork. Leslie is the co-creator of Image Comic's Snotgirl.

We had the pleasure of chatting with Vanessa Reynoso of Marbled Paper Studio. She shares about the intricate craft of paper marbling, its history dating back to the 12th century & much more.

We had the opportunity to sit down for a chat with portrait artist, woodworker Jason Patterson. Using historical documents and meticulous research, Jason’s transformative work is centered around telling stories of African American history from his local community...

When we first heard about a team of designers that were using Blackwing pencils to sketch out projects on parchment paper placemats at an osteria in a small town in Italy, we knew we had to find out...