These are my pencils.

Sami borrowed Layla's pencils.

Your pencils need sharpening.

Do you have any pencils?

Okay. Put down your pencils, as they say.

GV How does sketching help you understand a place?

So, remember the sketching task we did at the beginning?

As a teenager, I was sketching, drawing, and I wanted to be an artist.

In 2008, the crew shifted to using Wacom Cintiqs for the drawings instead of pencils.

Global Voices spoke to Fiadeiro about her art and how sketching has helped her get to know Mauritania.

Their tender hands should have pens and pencils in them, and should never be forced to use grenades and bombs.

With Clinton in Beijing, the time is now to begin sketching out a common US Chinese future in a deliberate and thoughtful way.

Today, most of the world s pencils are produced in China an economy that is a peculiar mix of private entrepreneurship and state direction.

At the end of the 1920s, however, the company renamed itself Wahl Eversharp, and all products, pens and pencils alike, were marked accordingly.

The terrorists seem to have used knives to shave some victims fingers like pencils, he said, forcing them to write their names in their own blood.

Citymag, a free magazine distributed monthly in Nouakchott has started to publish my drawings. Maybe that will inspire more people to pick up a pen or pencil and start sketching.

Most of the reefs are dead, most of the corals are dead overgrown by algae and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

Portuguese artist Isabel Fiadeiro ( Isabelfiadeiro) lives in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where she paints and runs an art gallery. Fiadeiro also sketches from observation, filling her blog Sketching in Mauritania with images of daily life in the West African nation.

Taking gruesome images from his computer that were widely blasted in the media, Al Halabi conceived the project Cheek, erasing the images by adding English words and Arabic letters around them, sometimes sketching the image s most basic outline.

During this period he also visited Paris, took advantage of the timed sketching classes at the Académie Colarossi, and viewed, in the Trocadero, a plaster cast of a Toltec Maya sculptural form, the Chac Mool, previously seen in book illustrations.

Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we're caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says Doodlers, unite! She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.

This sector continues to suffer the impact reported in the last two reports that Cuba sent to the Secretary General, in particular relating to the supply of pencils, notebooks, paper and other learning materials and equipment needed for general use in the educational process, which amounted to only 60 per cent of what the country purchased in 1989.