Texture and mark making

What is texture?

The texture of something is how it feels when we touch it. There are many different words we can use to explain different textures. Can you think of any examples?

Different textures 1. Bubbly2. wrinkly3. Soft 4. Rough5. Spiky /prickly6. Fluffy7. Cracked8. Furry9. Spotty 10.spongy

Big picture

• Take part in demonstration.

• Produce your own textures through mark making.

• Discuss work in pairs

• Level each others work

• Make links between your work and artist Karl Blossfeldt.

Learning outcomes• All will know what texture is and be able to

give examples

• Most will be able to create different textures by using pencil, black pen and black chalk

• Some will be able to make links to Karl Blossfeldt’s work and the accurate textures they have produced

Demonstration and task 1You task is to create a page full of different textures through different

types of mark making.

The rules;

• Divide your page into a grid with 24 boxes

• Use 3 different media- pencil, chalk pastel and pen

• Select the correct media to create your texture

• Fill each grid with a texture. It MUST be DIFFERENT in some way to all others

• You must have at least 10 different boxes filled with mark making

• Points to the people who can achieve all 24 following the rules above!

½ way review

• Look at your partner’s textures.

• Can you identify what textures they have created?

• Have they used the correct media (chalk, pen pencil) for the job?

• What could they do to improve?.

Level criteria• To be working at 3b • Grid is drawn neatly but uneven in places• Between 8 and 10 textures have been created but 2 or 3 don’t accurately show texture• Pen, pencil and chalk have all been used to create textures • Work is smudgy in places because chalk has been used incorrectly

• To be working at 3a • Grid is accurate in size and lines are drawn neatly• More than 10 textures have been created and most show different textures accurately • They have used pen, pencil and chalk and show some areas where they have mixed them to create

accurate textures • Work is neatly presented

• To be working at a 4c • Grid is accurate in size and lines are drawn neatly• More than 12 textures have been created and they accurately show different textures• They have mixed pen, pencil and chalk together to accurately create the list of textures given and their

own textures • They have selected the correct media to recreate certain textures e.g. pen= spiky, chalk = fluffy• Work is neatly presented

Final review 1) Why is Karl Blossfeldt a good artist to be looking at for our natural forms

project?

2) How do the textures you have created relate to Karl Blossfeldt’s work?

3) Why is being able to create texture important in your own art work?

Karl Blossfeldt Your mark making

Review 1. Karl Blossfeldt is a good artist to

look at for our natural forms project because ...............................

2. The textures I have created relate (link) to Karl Blossfeldt’s work because......................................

3. Being able to create texture in my own work is important because ....................................................

Texture

improve

accurate

Level 4

photographs

Natural forms

Black and white

detail

Karl Blossfeldt Your mark making