• Three Things I Did Well Today
• Portrait Of You - Collage
  • All you need to know about this activity
  • Step 1: It's all about you
  • Step 2 and 3: Connections and your theme
  • Step 4 and 5: Associated feelings, colour and mood
  • Step 6: Texture and mood
  • Step 7: Plan your collage
  • Step 8: Mount your work
  • What next?
• Imaginary Lives - Creative Writing
• Who Am I? (Part 1 and 2) - Creative Writing

Step 6: Texture and mood

Texture is what something feels like.

• Which textures would you associate with each feeling?
  Try feeling any surfaces and fabrics around the room you’re in for a texture that might inspire you.
  What do they feel like?
  Do they match your chosen feeling/s?
• Add these to your new mind map. You can write them down first or sketch them

For more ideas about texture:

Want to create your own textured papers? Try our exercise ‘Taking Rubbings’ or download and print our example texture rubbings.

Look for images of textures in magazines to find the best match

Find textured materials around the house or garden that could be used in a collage: textured wallpaper, a scrap of velvet or silk, a leaf or a shiny button etc.

Texture Pick List:

Spiky, rough, prickly, smooth, shiny, bobbly, scratchy, soft, slippy, dusty, mottled, uneven, sharp, furry, bumpy

 
Here are some examples of textures found around the home.

Example:

Look at our example below showing the theme of ‘going for a walk in the park’. The mind map illustrates, through the use of colours and textures, a range of feelings connected with this activity.

Inspired: yellow / sparkly
Calm: pink/soft
Relaxed: blue / mottled
Energetic: green / spiky