The Elements of Pattern and Texture

Part 1

After looking through and reading the slides I learned many things about pattern and texture. Patterns go back many and many decades, the slides state that humankind found patterns in lunar cycles and seasonal change. Something new that I learned about patterns is the word "Crystallographic" which is the act of creating an allover pattern. Patterns are usually made on grids and consist of complex symmetries. The slides later went into the similarities and differences of pattern and texture, they talk about how texture uses more so our sense of touch and that its more of an irregular repeat, texture also shows more light and dark shadows or glossiness. Texture allows tracks to your memory because of the sense of touch, many forms of art use this like ceramics, woods, and fiber art. There are different types of textures like tactile, tactile is a texture that can actually be felt and there's also implied texture which can be observed but not touched, there's a word impasto which means "creating a painting using thick pigment which creates a rough, 3D surface that has texture." The slides introduce more textures like visual texture, visual texture is a type of texture that can only be touched, there's also a new word that I learned which is "verisimilitude" it kind of makes the illusion of texture by being created on a flat surface. Lastly I also learned a new saying which is "Trompe L'oeil" which is French for "To Fool the Eye" its usually used when a piece of art is so realistic that the viewer is fooled and thinks that its real.

Part 2

For my pattern exercise I did the 20 doodles and I overall liked how it turned out, I think that after awhile of doing it I got sloppier just because it was a long process. It took me about an hour to complete this excursive so I wouldn't say I enjoyed it that much because I was just kind of wanting to finish already but I definitely learned some new patterns to create!

 

For my texture exercise I did the sort of wall textures so bricks, stones, wood, things like that and once again it was very time consuming, this took about an hour as well so overall I didn't enjoy it much, I did learn more about creating texture like using different strokes and sometimes even being aggressive to get that perfect texture for your piece or sometimes being really soft.