Butterfly With Stained-glass Style Wings In Art Nouveau Frame Coloring Page

The butterfly sits dead center with its wings open flat, and the wing cells are what make this an adult sheet. Each upper wing is divided by long ribs into narrow panels running from the body out to the tip, then a band of small ovals follows the outer edge like a string of beads. The lower wings repeat that idea at a smaller scale and finish in two short tails. Behind the insect a wide arch curves across the sheet, ruled with fine parallel hatching that will eat a lot of pencil if you fill it, so decide early whether to leave it white as a background or treat it as a stone rim. The square frame around everything carries a fan of stylized blooms in every corner and a crest at top and bottom. Faint crackle lines in the background panels imitate leaded glass. The sensible approach is to pick a short palette, four or five colors, and repeat it across the wing panels in a rhythm rather than coloring every cell differently, which keeps the symmetry readable. Save one bright accent for the ovals along the wing edge.