Month: August 2015

typing for harlequin creature!

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from the Adler Tippa S, SCM Classic 12 6cpi, the Silver Top Corona Sterling and Adler Tippa.
from the Adler Tippa S, SCM Classic 12 6cpi, the Silver Top Corona Sterling and Adler Tippa.

check out harlequin creature I love what they do, (and if you are up for it and able, sign up for one of their typing bees!) and am grateful to Richard Polt for pointing me in their direction. In fact I am really still quite stunned that my submission was successful, as there are so many wonderful typewriter artists out there. Now, must get on and get the day’s typing done!

Sketching with the 66

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A Splendid 66 crow.
A Splendid 66 crow.
The Olympia Splendid 66 I keep in Scotland. The shades are vintage 50s, I think, which we found in a box of treasure under the bed. No, I didn't wear them!
The Olympia Splendid 66 I keep in Scotland. The shades are vintage 50s, I think, which we found in a box of treasure under the bed. No, I didn’t wear them!

It’s good to spend some time with just one typewriter. But it’s also good to be back among the rest of my small herd! The Olympia splendid machines are great for travelling, but this one really resists being used as a sketching tool. I ended up just using it for writing after the first week. The shades were an unexpected match to the colouring of the typewriter.