Creating Texture

Working lightly in pencil sketch a nighttime landscape. Include trees, a lake, and the moon. Make your drawing large enough to fill a large sheet of paper. Switching to crayon, trace over all the pencil lines, pressing hard. Place a sheet of burlap beneath your paper. Using the side of an unwrapped crayon, rub over the sky in your drawing. Replace the burlap with bits of dried grass and leaves. Rub the crayon over the lake in your work. Examine the results. Use other materials with rough surfaces as a base for rubbing the remaining forms in your work. (For further information on rubbings, see Technique Tip 25, Handbook.)

PORTFOLIO
Describe the results of each textural experiment. Write each technique and the words that describe its effects in chart form. Keep this chart and your sketch with texture samples in your portfolio reference. Add new techniques and textures to your chart as you discover them.

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