Texture in Art Teacher Resources

An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is from the artist's toolkit encyclopedia and includes information on types of lines, edge and outline, expressive line,...

Several techniques for creating unique paintings are described at this website: "Make a Wax Resist," "Paint through Tissue," "Create Texture with Plastic Wrap," and "Paint on Glossy Paper."

This video [2:42] lesson is about patterns, which we use in shading all the time. Shading is creating the surface appearance of all the stuff you see in Pixar films.

This site offers images of paintings done by a contemporary artist using the impasto technique.

This page contains a brief definition for "impasto" and provides some examples of paintings made with impasto technique.

This page contains a definition for "frottage." Read about what it is, when it was first introduced, and view an example of a piece of art that uses the frottage technique.

This site is a personal account of an artist's trip to do Mayan rubbings. Includes images of the rubbings.

Wikipedia offers a basic definition for what impasto is. Also lists the types of paintings it is primarily found in and the painters it is commonly associated with.