The technique of what people today call "collage" is not new. In Victorian times, elaborate art was created from bristly horsehair as a type of collage. The modern collage dates to the early 1900s when Picasso pasted newspaper on a drawing. In 1919 Karl Schwitters, a German artist, developed collage into an art form that was as important as painting. In this article, the author describes how her students made flower collages, which were inspired by flowers painted by Georgia O'Keeffe. Design in nature, as seen in O'Keeffe's flowers, helps students develop an awareness of the visual properties of line, color, texture, shape, value and space.