Bad Hair DayIllustrating texture through the use of lines,

pattern and value

How did this artist create visual texture?

The actual surface of this sculpture is hard, cold, and smooth. It's made

of marble!

Jud Nelson Hefty 2-Ply 1979-1981 Marble Walker Art Center Purchased with the aid of funds from Mr. and Mrs. James K. Wittenberg, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Art Center Acquisition Fund

In the detail of this painting, you can see the artist's successful imitation of the surface of a soap bubble. Its "visual

texture" appears to be wet and shiny. If you look more closely, you can see the

actual texture created by the artist's application of paint.

Master of the Procession Detail of Gathering of Gamblers with Hurdy-

Gurdy Player c. 1660

Oil on canvas The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The John R. Van Derlip Fund

This artist created nearly perfect visual textures in this painting. For example,

the carving above the photograph and the paper on the door create the illusion that the work of art consists of a wooden door

with paper glued and nailed onto it.

John F. Peto Reminiscences of 1865 after 1900 Oil on canvas The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Julia B. Bigelow Fund by John Bigelow

How many different types of lines can you draw Draw a few on a scrap paper.

This portrait looks like a photograph, but it's really a painting. A photograph is a record of the

actual appearance of things. Notice how carefully the artist has imitated, in paint, the textures found on a face, like whiskers and bumps. This is a great example of an artist's

attempt to create visual texture that is almost as good as the real thing!

Chuck Close Big Self-Portrait

1967-1968 acrylic on canvas Walker Art Center

Art Center Acquisition Fund

The whole page should eventually be filled in with separate textures, not as you see it here.