Texture

===Everything, including art masterpieces, have a texture or surface. Texture can be smooth, rough, prickly, scratchy, bumpy, slick, silky, soft, it's an endless list. Texture is the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface.===

===__Tactile:__ Also known as physical, is the actual textures, is perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible, is the actual type of variations upon a surface. In this kind of texture are included, scratchy, rough, wood, canvas, grain, leather.===

===__Visual:__ sometimes we can simulate this textures with paper, but more often the textures we create in our designs are visual rather than tactile. However, those visual textures can be just as provocative or full of meaning as actual textures we can touch.===

===Claude Monet for example, used visual texture in his creation of landscapes - irregular brush strokes, which up close look like a mess but standing back a few feet look lively and vibrant.===