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Texture

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The term “Texture” comes from the Latin textura; textus meaning ‘to weave’.Texture is the visual or tactile surface characteristics which may be described as

smooth or rough, plain or decorated, matte or glossy, soft or hard. The surface quality of a two-dimensional shape or three-dimensional

volume is called texture. Texture refers to surface quality. Everything that hasa surface has a texture.

The term is often misused to refer only to rough surfaces but this is not correct.All surfaces have texture.

While texture can make an image more interesting it is not a strong enoughelement to be useful for organizing a composition.

TEXTURE

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Ev e r y s u b s t a n ce h a s i t s o w ni n t e r n a l a n d e x t e r n a l t e x t u r e

Internal texture:•The inner structure of an objective•We see it after any object is sectioned•Example ; cellular growth of woods.

External texture:•The outer look or structure of an object

•It is of two types: tactilevisual

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There are two kinds of texture:

1. Tactile : Touch 3D texture

2. Visual : Visual illusion 2D texture

3. Invented : by artist

Types of Texture

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1. Tactile Texture

Tactile means touch. Tactile texture is the actual (3D) feel of a surface.

Three-dimensional manifestation structure or finish, is directly related to the sense of

touch. Involves using items with physical texture to add or create new textures.

Both felt and visually perceived.

Painters are most likely to take advantage of this to give their painting's surface a livelylook.

Paint can be built up into rough peaks in a technique called impasto.

Vincent Van Gogh is famous for this.

Some painters add sand to their paint to make more tactile texture.

Glass can be pressed, cast, engraved to give varied degrees of roughness.

Collages can use textured paper and other three-dimensional materials (like string,cardboard, sandpaper, etc.) to make a tactile surface.

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2. Visual Texture

Visual texture refers to the illusion of the surface's texture.

It is what tactile texture looks like (on a 2D surface).

Two-dimensional visual textures can be seen but not felt.

Visual texture uses line, point and shape, to create the illusion of texture. Visualtexture is implied texture. The brain sees these patterns and interprets them as

physical texture. This type of texture imitates physical textures from the realworld.

For example: The textures you see in a photograph are visual textures. No matterhow rough objects in the photograph look, the surface of the photograph issmooth and flat.

there are several factors which produce visual textures:

Light and Stencil (Physical structure)

Reflection and Absorption (Surface polish)

Different Value Contrasts (Physically broken surface)

Differences in Opaqueness (Thickness and depths of translucency, ortransparency materials)

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3. Invented Texture

This texture is created through the use of a repeated pattern, symbol or mark.This type of texture does not imitate any physical texture, but rather is inventedby the artist.

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Textural quality

• smooth Texture:Seem Cool, tranquil, precise.Reflects light.

Don’t want extra attentionEx: pages of book

• Rough Texture:Attract attentionActivate surfaces and may overshadow form and color.Tend to look warm and informal.Absorbs light.May be pleasantly irregulars or painfully harsh.

• Hard texture:Less inviting,rough,unfriendly

• Soft texture:Tempt us to touch themFriendly and appealingFlabby (loose/soft).Ex: skin of a body

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This composition showshow a simple design idea

can be enhanced by good

use of color and texture.

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Pattern

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Pattern

A recognizable motif regularly repeated produces a pattern. Pattern requiresrepetition -- in design as in life (a pattern of behavior). The more regular the

repetition, the stronger the pattern. Compare this field of flowers with a checkerboard.Both have a repeating motif.

The most noticeable patterns occur when you see the group before the individuals --notice the organization first (the checker board). All of the motifs in a pattern havesurfaces, so there is always texture. But there is not always pattern -- only when younotice it.

Texture and pattern are related. When you look closely at a tree you can see thepattern of leaves that make its surface. When you back away you loose awareness ofthe leaves and notice the texture the leaves make on the tree. Farther away still andyou can see the pattern of the trees making up the forest and finally the texture of theforest. In this way pattern changes to texture as you loose sight of the individualmotifs. This is easy to do with natural patterns, but you have to get quite far away

from a checker board grid to see it as texture.

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Pattern

Pattern is the regular repetition of a shape over part or all of thepicture plane. A regular pattern leads the eye across and aroundthe page, and so can be used as a way to direct the vieweraround your composition. A regular pattern can also create Unity

by repeating the shape on different parts of the page, which canlead to a unified, integrated work. Pattern can also createTexture and so can create more interest and richness in plain,unadorned areas.

I'm often asked about the difference between pattern andtexture. Texture and pattern can use the same elements, but

pattern is more regular. You an have a variety of textures acrossa work of art. Patterns repeat the same artistic element in moreregular and predictable way.

The more regular, linear and predictable the pattern, the morecalm and controlled the mood of the work will be. One way toadd interest in a work is to have a break in the pattern that

emphasizes the focal point. You can see this in examples 1,2,3,and 5. Notice in #3, by Klimt, how the pattern of the dress issuggested in the repeat blue flowers in the halo around thewomen's head, but in a larger, more irregular way.

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