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kleinbl00 · 4737 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Chromatic Typewriter - old typewriter retrofitted with color pads in order to "type" paintings
Ever used a typewriter? Even an old Selectric ball?
Key goes down, letterstrike hits ribbon, ribbon hits paper, ribbon retracts from paper, letterstrike retracts, paper advances. This thing, she painted all the keystrikes. Not only that, but her two-tone keys are attached to one-tone keystrikes, which have no way to refresh their coloring, and if you're using oil, you're going to get a hell of a smear from adjacent keys every time you use it - unless they're dry, of course. You could theoretically make something like this with oil pastels, but it wouldn't look like a typewriter. It certainly wouldn't give you the picture in the carriage. You'd get pixels.