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Year 7 · Art and design · The formal elements · Lesson 4

Texture, form and pattern

Texture (actual, visual and frottage), form (3D shapes and shading), and pattern (natural and man-made), completing the formal elements.

Whiteboard video lesson: Texture, form and pattern

17-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Explain actual and visual texture
  • Use frottage
  • Distinguish shape and form
  • Identify natural and man-made patterns

The method

  1. Look closely.
  2. Choose marks.
  3. Vary pressure.
  4. Label.

Key words: texture, frottage, form, pattern, motif, mark-making.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What is texture?

  1. Step 1: Feel

Answer: how something feels or looks like it feels

Question 2

What is actual texture?

  1. Step 1: Touch

Answer: texture you can really touch

Question 3

What is visual texture?

  1. Step 1: Drawn

Answer: texture that is drawn or implied