The Humble Rubbing © Corban Estate Arts Centre 2020 CEAC.ORG.NZ THE HUMBLE RUBBING Tēnā koe! My name is Jean and I’m part of the Education team at Corban Estate Arts Centre. We’ve been busy creating some adventures for you and your whānau... The rst one is called The Humble Rubbing! You’re going to need a few things for this adventure, but not many. Are you ready...? 2 3 CONTENTS MATERIALS REQUIRED 4 CREATE A CHARACTER 5 CREATE YOUR STORY 6 CREATE A VISUAL SOUNDCAPE 7 CEAC.ORG.NZ 4 THE HUMBLE RUBBING Materials required You need a pencil or crayon, paper (old unused schoolbooks are a good source of paper), scissors, cardboard (food packaging is perfect) A Rubbing is made when you place a piece of paper over a textured surface and then use a pencil or crayon to rub over the paper. The texture will magically appear on the paper as you go. A great starting point is to create a Dictionary of Marks. To create a mark dictionary, search out and nd different textures from around your house. Make a rubbing of each texture onto a different area on a piece of paper. It might be useful to write down where you found them as you will want to go back to them later on. This will be very useful to look back at as we move on to more complicated ways of making art with rubbings. Following are two separate activities that you can do with rubbings. Feel free to try either one of them or both or else just make up your own thing. Remember to have fun and be inventive! Here is my Dictionary of Marks that I made at my house. Jean Stewart (2020). Create a character Another neat thing you can do with rubbings is to cut-out shapes from cardboard and make rubbings of these shapes. Old food packaging is a good source of cardboard for this. It doesn’t matter what’s printed on the cardboard as it is only the cut-out shape that will show in the rubbing. This is your opportunity to think of your own character that you want to develop a story around. Perhaps a super hero or an insect, perhaps a tooth fairy or a taniwha, you can choose whatever character you feel like. And you don’t have to stick to one create as many as you need. Draw an outline of your character onto the card and then use scissors to cut out the shape. You can add details to your character by cutting out separate pieces of card and carefully placing them into place on top of your cardboard character then placing the paper gently on top being careful not to move things as you make your rubbing. Create a character Another neat thing you can do with rubbings is to cut-out shapes from cardboard and make rubbings of these shapes. Old food packaging is a good source of cardboard for this. It doesn’t matter what’s printed on the cardboard as it is only the cut-out shape that will show in the rubbing. This is your opportunity to think of your own character that you want to develop a story around. Perhaps a super hero or an insect, perhaps a tooth fairy or a taniwha, you can choose whatever character you feel like. And you don’t have to stick to one create as many as you need. Draw an outline of your character onto the card and then use scissors to cut out the shape. You can add details to your character by cutting out separate pieces of card and carefully placing them into place on top of your cardboard character then placing the paper gently on top being careful not to move things as you make your rubbing. 5 Here are my examples of a Kiwi with a rued up coat and wearing his pōtae. Here is a kiwi Here is a kiwi with a rued up coat and here is a kiwi wearing his pōtae CEAC.ORG.NZ 6 Create your story Now that you have your character or characters you can rub them into a story. By creating a series of drawings you can change your arrangement in each rubbing to show what is happening – just like in a comic. Be inventive: you could have moving parts or different out ts, and think about the environment too that surrounds your character. Here’s a hint: if you want to keep areas white put the cardboard on top of your paper hold it down and carefully rub around it. I’d love to see what you you came up with, so if you’d like to share it, then you can upload it here: #CEACAdventures I look forward to seeing them! Are you ready for more? Here’s my story about the moonlit night that Kiwi found his magic Pōtae. Jean Stewart (2020). THE HUMBLE RUBBING 7 Create a visual soundcape Have you noticed how the sounds around us have changed since we have all been at home in our bubbles? For me where I live in the Waitakere Ranges it has been very quiet. There are no more car noises and hardly any aeroplanes ying over head. Now in this new quietness there are a whole lot of other sounds that I am starting to hear. What are the sounds around your house? In this adventure we are going to turn sounds into marks on paper. You might want to look again at your dictionary of marks to remind yourself what you have available. You can also cut shapes out of cardboard to resemble the sounds you hear. For example hearing the sound of a small bird tweeting I cut out small sharp pieces of card and put them altogether to rub over. Let’s start: Find a place where you won’t be interrupted, and close your eyes and focus on the sounds you hear. Spend some time doing this until you can focus on the sounds. Let your mind start to imagine the sounds as shapes or marks. Open your eyes and begin your soundscape rubbing. Remember you are making a soundscape which means lots of sounds together so you may need to return to your listening with eyes closed a few times through the process, to remember all the different sounds. Bit by bit record them all in your picture. What do the sounds that you heard look like? I’d love to see what you you came up with, so if you’d like to share it, then you can upload it here: #CEACAdventures Thanks for joining me on this adventure! See you next time. E noho rā Jean Jean Stewart (2020). This morning I woke up early and sat on my front deck to hear the dawn chorus, the sounds of all the birds waking up. Here is the soundscape rubbing I made after my listening. 2 Mt Lebanon Lane PO Box 21 526 Henderson Auckland, 0650 New Zealand Info@ceac.org.nz (09) 838 4455 www.ceac.org.nz facebook.com/Corban.Estate instagram.com/corbanestate Jean is a member of the CEAC education team she is also practicing painter. Currently she is at home with her two boys and partner. Every morning she is getting up and jumping on the trampoline to wake herself up.