Texture

=Texture=


 * Texture** refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch. Texture is sometimes used to describe the feel of non- tactile sensations.


 * Types of Texture**

When photographs are used for collage materials, texture starts to take on more importance. Now you can use the illusion of many different textures, as well as the colors and objects in the pictures. This is one of the things that make collage such a potentially powerful technique. What you lack in control and versatility is more than made up by the rich variety of colors, textures and images that are at the your disposal. Collage allows someone with modest technical skills, and no drawing skills, to create a sophisticated image.
 * Visual Texture**: is the perceived surface quality of an artwork. It is an element of two-dimensional and three-dimensional design and is broadly distinguished by its perceived visual and physical properties. Use of //texture//, along with other elements of design, can convey a variety of messages and emotions.

The actual surface texture needs to either be felt, or seen with light raking across its surface to make the texture visible. Painters are most likely to take advantage of this to give their painting's surface a lively look. 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.
 * Tactile Texture**: Tactile means touch. Tactile texture is the actual (3D) feel of a surface. This is of paramount importance to three-dimensional design but of only moderate interest in two-dimensional design.

Texture describes the relative roughness or smoothness of a surface. Also describe the characteristics surfaces of certain materials.
 * What is it that texture describes of an object?**

An artist who is trying to create the illusion of space sharply defines texture in the foreground and paints less defined and softened textures in the background.
 * How can texture influence the characteristics of a space? **