The Humble Rubbing

The Humble Rubbing © Corban Estate Arts Centre 2020

THE HUMBLE RUBBING 2 CEAC.ORG.NZ 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…?

CONTENTS 3 MATERIALS REQUIRED 4 CREATE A CHARACTER 5 CREATE YOUR STORY 6 CREATE A VISUAL SOUNDCAPE 7

4 THE HUMBLE RUBBING Jean Stewart (2020). Materials required Here is my Dictionary of You need a pencil or crayon, paper (old unused schoolbooks are a good Marks that I made source of paper), scissors, cardboard (food packaging is perfect) at my house. 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 di erent textures from around your house. Make a rubbing of each texture onto a di erent 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! CEAC.ORG.NZ

5 Create a character Here are my examples of a Kiwi Another neat thing you can do with rubbings is to cut-out shapes from with a ru ed up cardboard and make rubbings of these shapes. Old food packaging is a coat and wearing his good source of cardboard for this. It doesn’t matter what’s printed on the pōtae. 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. Here is a kiwi Here is a kiwi with a ru ed up coat and here is a kiwi wearing his pōtae

6 THE HUMBLE RUBBING Jean Stewart (2020). Create your story Here’s my story about the moonlit Now that you have your character or characters you can rub them into a night that Kiwi story. By creating a series of drawings you can change your arrangement in found his magic each rubbing to show what is happening – just like in a comic. Pōtae. Be inventive: you could have moving parts or di erent 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? CEAC.ORG.NZ

7 Jean Stewart (2020). Create a visual soundcape This morning I woke up early and sat Have you noticed how the sounds around us have changed since we have all on my front deck been at home in our bubbles? For me where I live in the Waitakere Ranges it to hear the dawn has been very quiet. There are no more car noises and hardly any aeroplanes chorus, the sounds of all the birds ying over head. Now in this new quietness there are a whole lot of other waking up. sounds that I am starting to hear. Here is the What are the sounds around your house? soundscape rubbing In this adventure we are going to turn sounds into marks on paper. You I made after my might want to look again at your dictionary of marks to remind yourself listening. 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 di erent 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 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. 2 Mt Lebanon Lane PO Box 21 526 Henderson Auckland, 0650 New Zealand [email protected] (09) 838 4455 www.ceac.org.nz facebook.com/Corban.Estate instagram.com/corbanestate