Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Texture - Wood

Texture: The characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used.



WOOD:





























Fragment: A part broken off or detached. An isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part. An odd piece, bit, or scrap.


Support: To bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.



Carve: To cut (a solid material) so as to form something. To decorate with designs or figures cut on the surface.
Texture: the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts

Monday, June 28, 2010

Texture - Metals



Texture: The characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used.





METALS:











Any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.










































Texture: the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts




















































































Monday, June 21, 2010

Summer Travels?

Are you going to the mountains or beach this summer?


Visit us in Asheville in the new Post & Gray
2 Hendersonville Road ~ Asheville, NC 28803


OR


Come and see our new space at 17 South in Charleston

4 Avondale Road ~ Charleston, SC 29407



Here's a snapshot of our beautiful space in Charleston!