Pixel This -- Principles of Texture

Physical Characteristics of Texture

Tactile Texture:

Texture that can actually be felt, through impasto, through paint strokes, through collages of textures and actual objects, etc.
Visual Texture

The impression of texture simulated on a flat, smooth surface by reproducing color and value patterns of familiar or invented or abstract textures.

Physical Characteristics of Texture
	Tactile Texture: Texture that can actually be felt, through impasto, through paint strokes, through collages of textures and actual objects, etc.	Visual Texture The impression of texture simulated on a flat, smooth surface by reproducing color and value patterns of familiar or invented or abstract textures.