Constructing an image from textures

Taking rubbings 

Look around you for surfaces to take pencil rubbings from. There will be many wherever you look; try to find some unexpected ones – like the bottom of your shoe, for example.

Having experimented with different rubbings, you will now use various texture rubbings as “material”, from which to compose a textural drawing. 

Working on a new sheet of paper, first faintly map out a drawing – the general outlines of a landscape, for example, or of a still life. 

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Now have fun finding appropriate texture rubbings for each part of your drawing. Remember that things closer to us will be bigger and bolder, and will have a stronger and heavier texture. Things further away will need a finer texture. 

This is not a collage – there is no cutting. All the rubbings are made on this single sheet of paper.