Artistic Workshops in Belgium

Use manhole covers with the NAME of your City ( or the name of a city of your country) Or with texts in your language ( like here above : Ville d’Arles in France) text in Polish in Italian and in Spanish

Kind of paper

You can do a rubbing on a sheet of tissue papers ( or silk papers) or Japanese papers

How to do this rubbing ?

Put the paper on the man-hole cover, and you rub it with

• oil/ fatty pastels ( black or blue or red)

• or you use a little brush with Indian ink

• Or you use oil ink used for engraving

The result must be POSITIVE

Size : it depends on the “man-hole” you choose to rub

You can easily fold the papers with the rubbings

What’s the goal of this ?

With all your ‘rubbing papers’ from the different cities and countries we will make an International Collective Work of Art .

Check these sites to understand the technique

The RUBBING idea is based on Alechinsky’s technique : to make RUBBINGS and to use THEM as “background” for HIS paintings .

If you watch the work of this artist on the link below you’ll understand it better.

https://www.bazarmagazin.com/art/expo-alechinsky-centre-de-la-gravure-la-louviere#.XYOKOi4zbIU

Watch this Alechinsky “Empreintes” this is what we mean.