Texture

Texture TEXTURE IS DEFINED AS THE TACTILE QUALITY OF THE SURFACE OF AN OBJECT

HOW IT FEELS IF TOUCHED. BUT IT IS SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.

THE TEXTURE IS THE VISUAL QUALITY AND TACTILE SURFACES ALL AROUND US.

EACH SURFACE IS COMPOSED OF VARIOUS MATERIALS AND CAN BE SMOOTH,

ROUGH, SOFT, ETC...

Types of TextureTactileVisual NaturalArtificial

Tactile Texture WE PERCEIVE IT BY TOUCHING AN OBJECT.

EVERY MATERIAL HAS A DIFFERENT TOUCH, SO IT IS A DIFFERENT TEXTURE.

Visual Texture WHEN WE REPRESENT A TACTILE TEXTURE USING GRAPHIC

ELEMENTS, WE GET A VISUAL TEXTURE.

WE CAN CREATE VISUAL TEXTURES USING DIFFERENT ART PROCEDURES: SCRAPPING, STENCILLING, PRINTING

Natural texture THEY BELONG TO NATURAL ELEMENTS, LIKE THE SKIN

OF AN ELEPHANT, THE CORTEX OF A TREE OR THE SURFACE OF A ROSE PATEL.

Artificial Texture THE SURFACE OF ANY OBJECT MADE BY US: STEEL,

PAPER, DIFFERENT KINDS OF FABRICS. ARTIFICIAL TEXTURES ARE CREATED AND DESIGNED BY

HUMAN BEINGS FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE TO GIVE A SENSE OF VOLUME

USING TEXTURE IN RELIEF ARTYOU WILL CREATE A RELIEF ART PIECE USING A

LINE AND YARN.PLEASE CONSIDER THE BLANACE IN YOUR ART.

NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE SPACE.

Relief art using metal

RELIEF ART using YARN

COLOR SCHEMES

Color Schemes are a systematic way of using the color wheel to put colors together… in your art work, putting together the clothes you wear, deciding what colors to paint your room…..monochromatic, complementary, analogous,

warm and cool.

MONOCHROMATIC

“Mono” means “one”, “chroma” means “color”… monochromatic color schemes have only one color and its values. The following slide shows a painting done in a monochromatic color scheme