What Is Texture?
- St. Catharines, Ont. ; New York : Crabtree Pub. Co., c2010.
- 24 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Kinds of texture -- Artists use texture -- Making thick layers -- What we paint on -- Texture from tiles -- Texture in clay -- Gluing on texture -- Making a rubbing -- Texture in drawings -- Texture in nature -- Words to know and find out more.
Young artists will "feel" inspired as they explore texture in famous works of art. Readers will learn that objects can have many kinds of textures. They will also learn how objects of different textures can be used in art and how artists can create the illusion of texture on a flat surface.