Join the Wildflower Art Trail fun!
Try this creative way to learn the Wildflowers:
Paint the Petal Personality🌸
Did you know the Petals on a Wildflower play a key role in letting you identify the plant? Get out some pencils or pens & find a Wildflower in bloom (easy in April, right?).
1. Starts with Math — oh my! Count the petals. Are there 3, 4, 5, . . . too many to count? Yikes! It’s pretty easy, because the same number of petals are on each bloom of the plant you’ve chosen! The number of petals are a key factor in identifying any Wildflower.
2. Are all the Petals the same Shape? Is there a variety of shapes? Take a minute, at the edge of your page to draw an outline of the petal shape, or, each different petal shape if they vary on the bloom.
3. Now that you know the number and shapes of the Petals, take a look closely at how the petals attach to the flower. How do they attach in the center? Do they radiate out flat, or curve backward, or reach out in a tube form? Or yet another way?
Look at how they attach from several angles. Which view says more about your Flower’s shape? from a Top view? Side view? Other?Â
4. Let’s try a few small outline sketches showing just how the petals attach from different views. Keep the sketches simple & small, on the side of your page. No need to add the petals yet. Hold your quick sketches next to the plant. Which view do you want to use when you add the petals?
* Great work gathering all the info you need for your Wildflower Art!
5. Using the view you’ve chosen make a simple sketch of the overall Flower shape, adding the number and shapes of petals.Â
6. Finalize your Wildflower Art by outlining in pen, or adding color with paint or colored pencil – or – any combination. Step back and look. Does your art show the identifying features of your flower? Add any other details you’d like. Label with plant name, location, date and your signature.
Congratulations! You’re ready to fill notebooks with Wildflower portraits from your walks in nature.
We hope you bring your Wildflower Art to the Wildflower Show, May 1-3. You can trade your Wildflower Art in the Little Free Wildflower Galleries throughout the month of ArtShare April. See Little Gallery locations and about the May 3 Art Swap ideas at:
https://northcoastcnps.org/2026-artshare-april/
🌺 Watch for other’s Wildflower Art:
🍀SHARE to everyone your Wildflower Art on Instagram using littlefreewildflowergallery
🌸SHOW others your Wildflower Art on Facebook using @littlefreewildflowergallery!
🌼Send us your Wildflower Art to and we’ll post to NOTHCOAST CNPS social media!