Chapter 9: Pattern and Texture Summary

Intro

  • Pattern – element of design that includes repetition
  • Linked to decoration
  • Way to capture attention with a visual design
  • Tessellation(tilting) – pattern created that slides along an axis

Texture and Pattern

  • Texture is related to pattern but different in feeling of touch of different materials
  • Feeling the surface and quality of object coincides with texture

Tactile Texture

  • Tactile means when texture is felt
  • Impasto is when a thick pigment is used to create a rough 3d surface

Collage – type of design that includes mixed materials like paper, cloth, etc and popular in folk art

Visual Texture – texture meant to be accepted by our eyes and not by touch

  • Verisimilitude – using a flat surface and showing that there is texture

Frottage – rubbing

trompe l’oeil – “to fool the eye”

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