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Keira Rathbone spends up to 90 hours on each picture, hammering away on a variety of letters and punctuation marks thousands and thousands of times ..
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This portrait of Nicole Kidman proves that some pictures really are worth a thousand words. A close-up [inset right] reveals that it was "drawn" on a typewriter .
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Where most people's efforts would only produce a smiley face on the end of an email, Keira has typed detailed pictures of celebrities such as Tom Hanks...
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... and Kate Moss. Keira, from Poole, Dorset, discovered her talent after buying a 1960s typewriter for £5 in a charity shop .
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She uses her right index finger to bash out the letters while her left hand winds the paper up and down ..
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She frantically types over the same area several times to create dark shading and uses just a few letters for the lighter patches...
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...and she sometimes uses the red typewriter ribbon to add a dash of colour .
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This detailed picture of Bournemouth Pier in Dorset took 90 hours of hard work ..
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Keira says: "I build up the shading by going over the same section of paper a number of times. Surprisingly I only get through about one ink ribbon a year"
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Keira has just launched an exhibition of her work at the Grove Studio in Southbourne, Bournemouth ..
Keira Rathbone spends up to 90 hours on each picture, hammering away on a variety of letters and punctuation marks thousands and thousands of times ..
http://imagehosting.gr/
This portrait of Nicole Kidman proves that some pictures really are worth a thousand words. A close-up [inset right] reveals that it was "drawn" on a typewriter .
http://imagehosting.gr/
Where most people's efforts would only produce a smiley face on the end of an email, Keira has typed detailed pictures of celebrities such as Tom Hanks...
http://imagehosting.gr/
... and Kate Moss. Keira, from Poole, Dorset, discovered her talent after buying a 1960s typewriter for £5 in a charity shop .
http://imagehosting.gr/
She uses her right index finger to bash out the letters while her left hand winds the paper up and down ..
http://imagehosting.gr/
She frantically types over the same area several times to create dark shading and uses just a few letters for the lighter patches...
http://imagehosting.gr/
...and she sometimes uses the red typewriter ribbon to add a dash of colour .
http://imagehosting.gr/
This detailed picture of Bournemouth Pier in Dorset took 90 hours of hard work ..
http://imagehosting.gr/
Keira says: "I build up the shading by going over the same section of paper a number of times. Surprisingly I only get through about one ink ribbon a year"
http://imagehosting.gr/
Keira has just launched an exhibition of her work at the Grove Studio in Southbourne, Bournemouth ..