Typewriter art

"This isn't your everyday art, this art is made with old fashion typewriters."
Keria Rathbone is a British artist who doesn't use pencils, clay, paints or other tools associated with art. By pushing the letters, numbers and punctuation marks she can create awesome portraits with her typewriters.

Since her collection of typewriters she uses are manual , she controls how dark or light the shade can be and where she wants to type bar to line up.

She is an amazing artist who also does live shows to show off her skills and the process of how these are created. LINK
Check out more of her portraits at her website.

Typewriter portraits are the right type of art

If you thought an old typewriter was just for producing letters on, think again - one artist is using ancient manual typrewriters to create astonishingly lifelike portraits of famous people.

Keira Rathbone hit on the idea of using manual typewriters – some 70 years old – as her paint brushes.
Working from her studio in Chiswick, London, and throughout the city, Keira turns the platen or roller to move the paper and selects different characters to make the shapes she wants. The 27-year-old artist from Dorset decides which of her 30 typewriters to use and creates faces and objects using numbers, letters and punctuation.
She said: ‘I love using a typewriter to draw. It’s an enjoyable process and a unique way of creating imagery. I often go around London and just sit there with a typewriter drawing what I can see or doing portraits.
‘People’s reaction is usually to say, ‘‘It’s amazing’’.’
Keira first got the idea to use a typewriter to make pictures while at university.


Over the last seven years she has ‘painted’ David Miliband, playwright Bonnie Greer and former Miss World Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai.
She has created magazine covers and appeared at events and festivals. Some of her portraits can take up to three weeks to do.
Her work is on display at the Montcalm hotel near Marble Arch in the West End. LINK

Awe-Inspiring Typewriter Art - Paul Smith

Suffering from severe spastic cerebral palsy from an early age, the awe-inspiring artist Paul Smith displayed extraordinary talent in teaching himself to create typewriter art at an early age. The loss of fine motor control of his face and hands made it impossible for him to attend school — let alone eat, clothe, or bathe himself.

He was able to use his left hand to steady the right and thus press the keys. The artist began creating typewriter art at age 15, and steadily refined his technique. Locking the shift key down to make his pictures using the symbols at the top of the number keys, his images were based on the characters, ” @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ ”

Paul spent 2 to 3 hours a day with his art, while listening to Classical music. It would take him anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months to create a single piece of artwork. LINK


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