What is Texture?

1
What is Texture?
texture
2
What is texture?

• An element of art, texture is the surface quality
  or "feel" of an object, its smoothness,
  roughness, softness, etc.
• Textures may be actual or simulated.
• Actual textures can be felt with the fingers,
• while simulated textures are suggested by an
  artist by repeating lines and shapes

3
Texture Vocabulary

• Actual
• Visual
• Touch
• See
• Repeating lines/shapes
• Details
• Hard
• Squishy

Rough Smooth Soft Bumpy Slick Gritty Irregular reg
ular
4
How do artists create texture?

• By repeating lines and shapes
• Irregular
• Regular

5
Assignment

• Draw 6 textures in your journal

6
Rubbings/Frottage Assignment

• texture can be borrowed from a surface
• put paper over rubbing plates or other surface
  (like the bottom of your shoe, sand paper, mesh,
  etc.)
• rub a crayon or pencil over the piece of paper
• Create 4 rubbings in your journal