Spring Coloring Pages: A fun filled coloring page of children playing in a field of tall sunflowers- swirling of petals, swarm of bees and sunshine-filled merry and free fun.
This happy shot is of two or three children running along a narrow pathway, in the midst of tall sunflowers, that go higher even than their Hats and ponytails. Large leaves mingle with umbrella-like overlapping, thick stems cross, big seed cores present spirals of tiny florets and one gets a satisfying detail. There is a distant picket fence and a line of rolling hills, friendly clouds and a sun to caps off the sky. Haphazard props, a kite tail waving behind, a straw hat or the tiniest of watering cans, are included without necessarily cluttering up the page. There is a restful harmony between dramatic, simple forms (petals, leaves, sky) and delicate textures (seed spirals, fabric folds, shoe laces, butterfly wings), ideal both to be filled in with saturated color in just five minutes and to be slowly shaded carefully.

A Color Manual How to Color:
Start with a gentle sky gradient (so light blue at the horizon but a little darker farther up); keep hills further away colder and paler to make foreground more exciting; lay path in warm beige with ruts darker beige taupe and a slight green glaze along edges where grass intrudes. Make sunflowers in a sunny palette: petals begin golden yellow at the tip and get darker and deeper toward base with warm orange or ochre, keep the tips small and brighter to look sun-kissed; shade the seed center of dark umber at the stripe with a lighter brown at middle, putting in little highlights to indicate texture. Colour two or three greens--olive in shade, spring-green in middle tint, and a track of yellow-green where the leaves are turned to the light--and put in one or a couple of lines of vein colours slightly darker to set the leaves alive. Put the kids in bright contrasting colors (blue/red, teal/coral, lilac/yellow) and see to it that clothing shows folds on the underarms, behind knees; soft shadows on skin under chins; along the forearms, and little white details on the eyes to give sparkle. Catch a few soft cast shadows of the path up under stems, leaves and feet to keep everything down, and glaze little warm yellow here and there around neighboring petals to indicate some sort of reflected light. Broad flats (sky, petals) work well with markers, gradients, textures (seed heads, fabric) with colored pencils and the finishing glints done with a white gel pen on petals, kite string and freckles.