GENERAL COLOURING

The decorative designs featured here are timeless examples of Japanese artistry. Although little is known of their creators or the actual dates of their creation, such designs reflect Japanese artists' historically deep appreciation of beauty in art and...

More than one hundred years after they were first drawn, Walter Crane's fairy tale illustrations remain full of magic. The beloved children's book illustrator brought life to classic stories. Some are still bedtime favorites, such as "Beauty and the...

One look at the artworks in this Colouring book will tell you that artist Jill Mayberg loves animals. She is also a huge fan of Colour and pattern, particularly stripes, polka dots, and hearts. She brings a sense of fun and play into her work, creating...

Habitat dioramas are among the greatest treasures of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Each depicts a precise moment in time at a specific location, with native flora and fauna. In the early twentieth century, the Museum raised...

About 3.5 billion years ago, the ocean gave rise to the first life on earth. Today, our planet's oceans are home to an amazing diversity of life in a wide range of habitats from tropical coral reefs to the frigid polar seas. The Irma and Paul Milstein...

When it opened in 1902, the American Museum of Natural History's Hall of North American Birds was the first space in the world devoted to habitat dioramas. It was created by Museum ornithologist Frank M. Chapman, whose grasp of the power of the diorama...

Considered one of the greatest museum displays in the world, the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City offers unique glimpses of African wildlife, from hippos wallowing in the Nile to wildebeest grazing...

Enter North America: a continent of contrasts, with mammals in every realm. Some are adapted to forests, some to deserts, and others to icy peaks. Through the dioramas in the Jill and Lewis Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals at the American...

Award-winning artist Charles Santore illustrated more than twenty children's picture books, including Aesop's Fables, The Wizard of Oz, and The Velveteen Rabbit. In addition to these touchstones of children's literature, Santore wrote and illustrated...

The Kuna Indian women of the San Blas Archipelago, a 140-mile group of islands off the Gulf Coast of Panama, have sewn and worn molas for a century or more. Mola, a Kuna word for blouse, also refers to the decorative panels that make up parts of the...

One hundred years ago, the Vienna Workshop was a booming artists' cooperative. Known as Wiener Werkstätte in German, the workshop thrived from 1903 to 1932, and its designers produced art that was used to create fabrics, furniture, clothing,...

Go by Rail! See Britain by Train! In the early twentieth century, British railway lines used catchy slogans and enticing artwork to attract riders. Facing heavy competition from automobiles and buses, the rail companies set out to increase ridership via...