Texture

Everything, including works of art, has a texture or surface. Texture can be rough, bumpy, slick, scratchy, smooth, silky, soft, prickly, the list is endless. Texture is the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface. It is the characteristic visual and tactile quality of thesurface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used or the imitation of the tactile quality of represented objects. 
 * Texture **


 * Types of texture **
 * Physical or tactile textures: **Also known as actual texture or tactile texture, are the actual variations upon a surface. This can include, but is not limited to, fur, wood grain, sand, smooth surface of canvas or metal, glass, and leather. It differentiates itself from visual texture by having a physical quality that can be felt by touch. Specific use of a texture can affect the smoothness that an artwork conveys. For instance, use of rough surfaces can be visually active, whilst smooth surfaces can be visually restful. The use of both can give a sense of personality to a design, or utilized to create emphasis, rhythm, contrast, etc.




 * Visual textures: **Is the illusion of having physical texture. Every material and every support surface has its own visual texture and needs to be taken into consideration before creating a composition. As such, materials such as canvas and watercolour paper are considerably rougher than, for example, photo-quality computer paper and may not be best suited to creating a flat, smooth texture. Photography, drawings and paintings use visual texture both to portray their subject matter realistically and with interpretation. Texture in these media are generally created by the repetition of shape and line.Some artists apply color with short, choppy brushstrokes to create rough texture. Others prefer hard, cold, and smooth textures. Some materials, such as granite, can be both rough and rocky, or smooth and polished. Coarse, scaly textures can be found on certain animals like lizards, and artists sometimes try to copy those type of textures working with different materials.



The texture describes the surface, roughness or smoothness, of an object. The actual texture of a painting or sculpture may not be at all the same as the "visual texture" that the artist is imitating. Painters and sculptors who work in the Realist style imitate natural surfaces and textures, making objects look shiny, wet, deceiving or realistic.
 * What is it texture describes of an object? **

Texture can help a painting feel more realistic, it can apply depth to a scenery and make two dimensional objects look life-like and three dimensional, also scale, viewing distance and light are important modifying factors in our perception of texture and the surfaces they articulate. So, textures can accentuate a plane's lenght or width. Coarse textures can reduce the scale of a plane and increase it's visual weight. We can learn to use textures to our advantage and create the desired illusions or sensations in the spaces we build.
 * How can texture influence the caracteristics of a space and what is the importance of texture in architecture? **