Surfaces & Textures
Where Surfaces and Textures Are Art
Recent Work
About This Group
This is an active group, July 30 2017
This group’s scope is surface structures, details, shapes, and textures as the subject of the image. The artistry and composition of the surface and texture itself is our major theme. The composition of the image showcases the texture and surface. Images of landscapes, flowers, street scenes, people, etc are generally out of scope of the group. The group theme is the surface and texture itself.
This can be seen in the grain patterns of wood, the surface of stones, crystals of snow and ice, water, fabric, metal, leaves, sand, woven objects, clouds. Included are urban decay surfaces such as rust and decay where scratches and dents create surface structure, texture, detail, and colour. Textures can occur at all level – including aerial photography and landscape views.
In this group, typical images include parts of flowers to show the texture of the petals, a close-up of bird feathers or animal fur to show the patterns of the surface, or rock faces without the horizon to showcase the surface and compositional patterns.
We include original art (e.g. acrylics, watercolours, paintings, etc) where it fulfills our group scope.
All kinds of surfaces and textures are of interest. The range includes:
- rough, ragged, gritty, bumpy, spiky, sharp, fuzzy, slimy, slick, slippery, smooth, soft, silky, scaly, coarse, burl, knot, slub, abrasive, scratchy, shaggy, bristly, prickly, spiny, thorny, burnished, glossy, polished, powdery, and fine
This is NOT a group about created and composite textures that are layered on other images for visual appeal. This is a separate art form that is not in scope of the group.
Our current rule of thumb: the image subject is surface or texture.
Here is our March 31st, 2015 features page to demonstrate our focus:
What is excluded from the group?
- No overlay textures – there are many groups for these types of art.
- No images with surfaces and textures a secondary theme/topic
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