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Make your Own Leaf Skeleton

Leaf skeleton art was a popular activity for Anglo-American women in the 19th century. Try making your own!

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Activity: Leaf Etching

Create leaf etchings!

A field of orange lilies.

Lily

Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at lilies and explore how different artists have been inspired by lilies.

Artwork shows stylized plant parts in reds, blues, and greens. Each plant part appears multiple times on the artwork.

Morris Wall Art

How can local plants and animals inspire art?

Woodblock print featuring a black and white bird sitting on a fruiting branch and eating a small orange fruit.

Ten Bamboo Studio Manual

Walk through a printed garden.

Olive penjing against a white wall.

Penjing

“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng

Three panels depict a woodland scene. The panels include humans, animals, and plants. The panels are wood and gold.

Organ Screen

Music, Art, Nature, and Storytelling

Plant with bright green leaves growing close to the ground.

Fern

Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at ferns, and explore how different artists have been inspired by ferns.

Painting of a valley with greenery in the valley basin and high vertical mountains. A waterfall is visible on one of the mountain faces.

Yosemite

Natural Beauty and National Identity: One Artist’s Impact

Painting with a reddish mountain in the background, hills in the midground, and trees and water in the foreground.

Chimborazo

How can artists express their understandings of the natural world through composite landscape paintings?