Blackwing-Keith Haring Smiling Heart Gift Box Set
The Blackwing Volume 292 collection is a tribute to Keith Haring. This is the Volume 292 Keith Haring "Smiling Heart" Gift Box. The gift box contains a notebook with Keith Harings Smiling Heart on the cover, a One-Step Sharpener with his iconic "Barking Dog" illustration, a special red Point Guard engraved with his "Radiant Heart" motif, and four Blackwing Volume 292 pencils.
Keith Haring was one of the most renowned young artists of the 1980s. Inspired by the graffiti artists who covered the city's subway cars, Haring began drawing with white chalk on the black paper that covered empty billboards.
As early as 1980, Haring began exhibiting in galleries and museums around the world, but he continued to participate in public projects, creating murals, sculptures, and paintings for hospitals, groups for underprivileged children, and various healthcare organizations.
Each Gift Box contains:
1 x notebook with Keith Haring's Smiling Heart print
1 x one-step sharpener with an illustration of "Barking Dog"
1 x Point guard engraved in red with a "Radiant Heart" motif
4 x Blackwing Volume 292 pencils
Blackwing
The story of Blackwing pencils started in the 30s when the Blackwing 602 was introduced by Eberhard Faber. In 1998, after different takeovers, the pencils were no longer produced. But by then the Blackwing already was immense popular with artists, musicians and scientists. Prices on Ebay went up to 40 dollar a pencil. In 2010 Palomino, a company with a rich history of almost 100 years in the pencil business, reintroduced the Blackwing on the market. The searched and found the best materials for this pencil.
Praised in the New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and Boing Boing among others, the Palomino Blackwing 602 features a firm and smooth graphite core that helps it deliver on its promise of “Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed.” Its unique and iconic ferrule allows you to extend and replace its eraser after extensive use.
