Textures in Art are “things you feel”, but textures can be the element of Art that can fool the eye and add layers in children’s books.
Unless they have 3-D capabilities, such as board books or baby books which help kids discover textures by feeling them, most children’s books display textures through painting or pictures.
We can combine Bible and Art in lessons because God has given us so many textures in His wonderful work of art, His creation. You have the ability see and feel textures in detail such as scales on a fish, feathers on a bird, the roughness of rocks or the smoothness of stones.
We picked some of our favorite children’s books that best illustrate textures.
The author and illustrator, Eric Carle, paints his paper, cuts it into shapes, creates his art and then photographs it. You see the illustration and you can see the textures on the paper created with paint.
Drawing lines in various thicknesses and proximity can create textures.
Patterns and shapes can appear as textures too! Think spots on a leopard or giraffe, hair on a kitten, fur, granite rock and wood grains, they are all textures!
When artists illustrate textures in art in children’s books, they are making you see something that you can’t actually feel!
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Discover how we love combining 2 of our favorites to teach Art using the Bible and Bible using Art. This post is filled with how creativity is a God given gift we all have and can use to glorify Him in many ways.
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