textures

Textures are a huge part of my art adventures. I am consumed by simple textures at times and then other times I'm driven to craziness by complicated webs or ripple effects. I am sure I am not the first to find these things entrancing. Textures can really set off your image or your background, whatever area of a piece of artwork you are trying to explode. I use "explode" as meaning set off from everything else. I love art that explodes. I am drawn to artist Marc Chagall for this very reason. His use of color creates a kind of crazy web or texture throughout his pieces. I could find stories hidden under every brush stroke if I had the opportunity. Pen and ink artists use texture very differently. Chiaroscuro (sp?) dark and light. Or cross-hatching with the pen. Moving the pen horizontally and then vertically and then not so horizontally and not so vertically and moving it moving it until you are caught in webs of crazy ink. I like the intricate lines used by one of my favorite artists Albrecht Durer. His use of texture makes me eek out loud. Sometimes they can be stark and other times very warm and inviting.

Textures can be found all around us and can inspire use of them superimposed on other images or objects we wish to conjure. A mad map of texture would love my walls for sure.