Cityscape Textures

Texture is one of the Elements of Art, things that make up almost every work of art. Texture is the way something feels when you touch it--rough, smooth, soft, sticky. Texture is everywhere.

In art, there are two different kinds of texture: real texture and visual texture. Real texture is texture that you can actually feel. Visual texture is texture that you can see, but not feel. One example of visual texture would be a rock in a painting. The rock may look like a real rock, and you may be able to see the texture of the rock, but when you touch it, it will not feel like a rock.

The first graders made a cityscape drawing and then used plastic texture plates to add visual texture to their drawings.

Here are a few student examples:

Jasley B.

Mitchell F.

Andrew H.

Luke H.

Caroline T.

Rachel T.