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Marks and Visual Texture

Take a look at the �drawing you made in the previous lesson. Choose one box to focus on.

What did you notice when you looked closely at the object? How would you describe the texture?

What marks, lines or shapes did you repeat to create that texture?

What else do you know that has a texture like this?

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Marks and Visual Texture: Close Looking with Katsushika Hokusai (1)

Take a close look this artwork by Katsushika Hokusai.

Imagine you can touch �this drawing.

What do the different parts of the artwork feel like?

Katsushika Hokusai. Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style. 1819, Woodblock printed book; ink on paper, 10 ¼ x 6 ¾ in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Marks and Visual Texture: Close Looking with Katsushika Hokusai (2)

What kinds of marks, lines or shapes did the artist use to create each texture?

Katsushika Hokusai. Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style. 1819, Woodblock printed book; ink on paper, 10 ¼ x 6 ¾ in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Marks and Visual Texture: Sketchbook

We’ve been focusing on objects found in nature, but did you know that textures can be found everywhere? Take a look around your home or classroom and look for other objects with interesting textures. Choose an object with texture that is important to you.

What is the object? Why is it important? �What texture does it have? How does it feel if you touch it? Do all the parts feel the same?

Draw the shape of your object to fill the whole page in your sketchbook. Then, zoom in on the texture.

How will you create the visual texture? Draw lines and marks to show how it feels.

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Marks and Visual Texture: Writing

Describe the object you drew in your sketchbook. Write 2-3 sentences answering the following questions:

What object did you draw?

Why is this object important to you?

What does your object look like?

What texture does it have?

What lines and marks did you draw to create the visual texture?

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Resource

National Gallery of Art Texture Lesson

Explore looking at texture in works of art and creating texture using different media: https://www.nga.gov/learn/teachers/lessons-activities/elements-of-art/texture.html

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Remote Arts Learning Partnership

Module One �

Studio in a School NYC Project Team

Julie Applebaum, Senior Director

Belinda Blum

Andrea Burgay

Traci Talasco

Graphic Design

Don Giordano

Cover image: Katsushika Hokusai. Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style. 1819, Woodblock printed book; ink on paper, 10 ¼ x 6 ¾ in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78795