Spring Coloring Pages: A coloring page with a lovely frog sitting on a lily pad in a quiet pond-waves, flowers, and reeds to relax and carefully color.
The spot of the scene is one of tranquility with a friendly frog seated on a large pad which have the toes apart and the eyes open as the frog observes the calm pond around it. Light waves ripple out in sine waves collecting strewn spring petals that flow along the top. Sturdy reeds and cattails border the coast and a lily bud or two, a dragonfly in flight and circles of pebbles are elements to spot as you color. The rugged, wrinkly legs of the frog, the ribbed stems of the lily, the rippled surface of the glass all provide you a pleasing variety of textures: rough surfaces as smooth and easy surfaces as precise lines, and is just the kind of page you want when you want a quick, relaxing drawing session, or when you want to draw very slowly and meticulously.

How to Color:
Wash with light blue and a little teal and a soft ground below the water with horizontal strokes and leaving a few thin white touches to add sparkle; colour more closely where it is near the pads and under reeds. Make the lily pad yellow-green in the centre graduating to cooler green along the edges; draw in veins slightly darker, and a mild cast shadow under the frog that is resting on it. With the frog begin with a mid green and add olive shadow (belly edge, under legs, beneath the eyes) and dot in warmer yellower green on brow, back and toes where he is in sunlight; use little dots and short dashes to indicate bumpiness of skin, and make the underside lighter with a light gray-green. Pop the eyes to warm amber or warm golden brown, darken pupil and put a sharp white highlight on it. The blossoms may be pink soft or the white, with peachy center; The water in the vicinity ruminates a glimpse of blossom color. Reeds appear to be natural with two shades of green (cool in the shade and warmer on the sunny side) and a dull brown cattail heads. Complete with cast shadows: a dimmer oval with the pad, a velvet rim shadow beneath the protruding thighs of the frog. The markers can be used on flat surfaces (water, pad); colored pencils can bring texture and gradations (frog skin, petals); a white gel pen is used to create finishing ripples on the water, highlights of the eyes, and dewdrop.