Artists Who Focus On Textures And Surfaces-Secondary Education Resource

Artists who focus on textures and surfaces in their work

Braque and Picasso• 1) Braque: 2) Pablo Picasso: still life and guitar

Anya Gallacio

Mixed media: Paper, sweet wrappers

and left over fabrics and papers.

Mixed media and collage: photgraphs,paint,paper,ink,paints

Iniva GalleryNS Harsha: Nations

"This work took shape after my visit to a local small scale textile factory in which I personally experienced the realities of ‘human labour'. Hierarchies and exploitation are part of today's global economic order. Nations engages with these socio-political complexities and cultural entanglements."NS Harsha.

Oil paint with linseed oil, turpentine and layers of paint

List of materials each student needs:

• PVA: in small containers• Sand: in small pots• Acrylic paint: 2 colours and WHITE: put on tiles• Linseed oil• String• Different types of paper: tracing paper, sugar paper,

card)• Masking tape• 4 polystyrene• Handful on flowers, leaves and grass, bark’s• Canvas squares• Tiles to put paint on

Task: To experiment and be creative in how to create the particular surface/texture

• 5-10 mins: Mind-mapping• 15 mins: Experimenting to create the most accurate

textures• 10 mins: Everyone to walk around and make

suggestions about how each piece can be improved on a piece of lined paper…..

• 30 mins: Refining the best experimentation. Record this on a piece of paper how you have created the

texture/surface step by step.• 10 mins: each going up and sharing what you have

done: others to guess how you have created the texture: what material you have used to create the texture