Add visual texture to your artwork with color, pattern, and a variety of brush strokes. Break up repetitive strokes and static blocks of color for more dynamic images.
- Adding your hand to the feel of a work can make it unique and immensely inviting. So developing your awareness of color textures is a good place to start. I'd like to show you how textures in color can add dimension, depth, contrast, and a tactile quality to your imagery. This is the finished image from a book I wrote and illustrated called Willow Buds: When Toady Met Ratty. You can see the detail and variety of textures. I'd like to show you how you get some of these textures with this color composite of the same image.
I always use referenced materials when making textures to create a sense of believability in my final image. In this case, I used the images of sky, grass, and trees. I'm Mary Jane Begin, and this is Artist at Work: Textures.
Released
2/7/2014Mary Jane uses the following materials in this course:
- Arches 140 lb hot press paper
- Tube watercolors- Winsor & Newton Cotman brand
- Paper stumps for blending
- Pastels- a variety of stick and pencil forms (including Conte pastel pencils)
- Short, fat, fine-bristle Winsor & Newton #2 and #4 brushes (for scrubbing color off)
- Sceptre Gold II sable/synthetic blend #3, #6, and #10 brushes
- Winsor & Newton Cotman brand 25 mm/1 in. flat brush (for washes)
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