Dragonfly Surrounded By Wisteria Vines In Art Nouveau Style Coloring Page

A single dragonfly holds the middle of this sheet with all four wings open flat, and each wing carries its own grid of veins waiting for a lighter shade than the body. The abdomen runs down toward the lower edge in eight clean segments, which gives you a natural gradient to work with if you shift one step darker with every band. Three sprays of vine frame it without ever touching it: one drops from the top left corner in a long curve, one climbs from the bottom left, and a shorter stem enters from the right with heart shaped leaves and a cluster of open blossoms. The blossoms are five petaled and drawn large enough for a marker tip, so this page suits pencils and pens equally.

Wide areas of bare paper sit between the vines. Colorists who like a plain background can leave them white for a botanical print look, or wash them in one pale tone so the linework reads as glass. The Art Nouveau influence here lives in the whiplash curve of the stems rather than in heavy ornament, which keeps the sheet calmer than most adult pages and makes it a reasonable first intricate piece.