Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. “There are details of the different kinds of carriage returns, or different kinds of molding of the black surface of the typewriter around the space bar, which are always more interesting than I could imagine.” The typewriter has appeared in many of William Kentridge’s works. In animations the typewriters were, for example, carried around by marching figures, in other works on paper they range from wall-size charcoal drawings to intimate lithographs. The immediacy and flexibility of drawing with charcoal allowed Kentridge to instantly change his work as he proceeded. Working from actual objects, rather than depend on his memory, Kentridge developed a signature style of erasure and alteration that he used to create his stop-motion animations. #WilliamKentridge #Drawing Photo: Kentridge drawing in his studio, Johannesburg (Copyright of the artist)