2. An Element of Design Texture

3. Texture: There are two major types or categories of texture in visual art. It is created with line. It depends on the types of lines the artist makes.

4. Texture Types and Categories: Tactile : Texture you touch. Visual : Texture you see.

5. Created with Line

6. Contrasting Texture

7. Texture of the surface: Notice that his Brush stroke creates a Texture that you can see. Everything has the same texture in Seraut’s painting because of his brush stroke.

8. Compare these Two different Surface Textures.

9. Compare these Two Textures

10. Tactile Texture Examples:

11. Woodland Native Corn Husk Mask How is the Texture of this mask different from the other two African Masks?