Texture Vocabulary

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Texture

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How something feels or how it looks like it feels.

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Actual Texture

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How something actually/physically feels.

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Implied Texture

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How an artist thinks something feels. The illusion of a texture.

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Tactile Texture

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The roughness or smoothness you can physically feel. Also known as actual texture.

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Impasto

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Texture that is created by building up paint to create a textured surface.

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Matte

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A type of texture that is dull and reflects soft light.

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Semi-gloss

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A type of texture that gives a lightly shiny, reflective surface.

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Gloss

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A type of texture that gives a very shiny, reflective surface.

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Hairy Texture

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A type of texture created by overlapping lines and wrapping them along the contour of the object.

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Rough Texture

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A type of texture created by the use of a mixture of dots and short lines.