Think
of a slinky. Write four textures that come to mind.

1. sharp
   
2. sleek
3. slippery
4. smooth
   

Now think of a scarf. Write four
textures that come to mind.

1. linty
2. scratchy
3. fluffy
4. loosely-woven
   

Use all these in a story that begins:
Late night city streets were the perfect backdrop for...

Late night city streets were the perfect backdrop for a painting of a different kind. A realistic mural dreamed of by this guy, who got world-famous for using the craziest medium to deliver his art. He once draped a whole mountainside with a plastic sheet, creating a smooth, surreal landscape. It was like looking at a snow-covered hillside, only the snow looks too slippery for even a daring skier. The sharp crags, still appearing sharp, you could tell it was the kind of sharp that will not cut your flesh because of the plastic coating.

Back to his new undertaking, he has thought of setting up glass sheets over a huge portion of downtown, and painting over and tracing whatever is under that glass--the city streets at night, but as he sees it, not as everyone else sees it. The street, sleek tar glistening from a downpour, becomes, in his version, a dark river, lined by shops, linty like it's shop windows when it hasn't been cleaned well enough, fluffy blobs of plants, unnamed and unidentified because of the lack of details of his artwork. The patterns on office buildings, solide granite and steel structures, changes into a facade of threadbare, loosely woven and drab, almost like burlap. Just thinking of it's scratchy fiber makes me itch.

So Mr. Innovative Artist finishes his artwork, his take on the city streets that to the average person walking down it from work, perhaps, is just a succession of structures and lights that help him feel a bit safer. The painting now looks like a Disney movie, where inanimate objects take on a life of their own.