• Alright, this first display is a part of a much bigger thing that I have to tell you about. Felissimo designed a set of 500 colored pencils for Social Designer that one can get a subscription for. You receive 25 colored pencils a month for 20 months, for about $23. It's not a great deal, but it does make a great deal of impact, visually, when you use one of four display methods they offer! This particular method is called "the wave." Not a cheap price for pencils, but not bad for pencils and art!
• Shapeways offers this black, modern looking colored pencil holder. It sort of looks like a rainbow porcupine, which makes me happy!
• I can't help it...I'm posting another display method form the 500 set from Felissimo. Gimme a break! This is gorgeous!
• This is a very sleek brass display set featuring a monochromatic-looking set of pencils, that are actually colored pencils. Offered by Jayson Home & Garden, I think they would look amazing on a desktop.
• I love repurposed wood pieces, and this pencil holder is no exception. A pretty simple DIY from The Sweetest Occasion, I am pretty sure I could afford and accomplish this one. Both, very important!
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Funny, I was just looking at my stash of colored pencils while cleaning up today and wondering what I can do with them. Hehe, great ideas!
Love it! This is a way better idea than displaying my multi colored sharpies...
Plus my orange one always gets usurped by my boss! I wonder if he would do the same with these fantastic pencil displays.. who am I kidding he loves pencils too. I may just have to get multiple in orange.
Great idea! :)
...now I've seen everything...
By golly you have in fact inspired me.
I feel like a lot of these wouldn't look nearly as good displaying pencils that actually got used, all of different lengths and sharpened imperfectly. Maybe that sort of depends on who is looking, but I don't think I would want to display well-used pencils in these particular ways.
We have this one for our kids and it really does get the pencils into their hands. Cute too. http://www.novanatural.com/coloring/snake-pencil-holder
Off topic, but does anyone know where I can find the sheep figurines?
I have a huge wooden box of Derwent Water Colour pencils that I obsessively keep numerically (thus chromatically) in order. It just doesn't look right otherwise!
I agree with Holler. I just keep mine in a Mason jar with my paintbrushes and charcoal pencils.
I do a whole lot of colored pencil work and I've got my pencils in containers hanging from a rail that's mounted on the wall by my drafting table. Easy to reach, easy to sort, and pretty to look at.
Very nice displays. The only one that would come close to working for me is the 500 pencil one. I suppose it would be bad to admit that I literally have thousands of artist's quality colored pencils (enough to fill an Ikea Helmer plus my working caddies). I do display some unsharpened pencils of my favorite colors in 2 square glass jars. I swear I'm not an intentional hoarder. It's my medium of choice and there was a time when I'd burn through 20+ pencils per week so I bought in bulk. I love the look of almost any displayed art supplies, but particularly colored pencils.
I just got a vision of picture #1 upsized and made into a headboard....