Artists use texture to accomplish many things in their work. For instance, it allows them to express their feelings about their subjects. Texture is also used to create the illusion of feeling. Specifically, viewers can be tricked into believing that an object in a painting has an actual tactile “feel” to it. To trick the viewer, some artists also use a “felt” texture on the surface of their work. This allows the viewers to see the effect of texture.
There are two kinds of textural experiences in art and these are:
a. Tactile texture - it is the use of materials that can be remembered with the use of the senses. Materials such as roughness of the wood, smoothness of the metal plate, or ridges of corrugated boards can be used by the artist to let the viewers personally experience the material that they are exhibiting.
b. Visual texture - it is the use of illusions to create a specific kind of texture. Artists can use the techniques of painting and drawing to conduct such kind of senses to the viewers/audience of the work.
