17-Tactile Texture

Tactile texture is something that can be felt. Painters will add layers upon layers of paint to put a texture to their artworks. One of the first to really do so was Vincent Van Gogh.

In his starry night, he used a technique known as impasto where the painter uses thick pigment. Van Gogh used short thick brush strokes and pure paints to bring out the image, looking at this example you could feel each star swirling about the night sky.