Intricate Rose Bouquet With Swirling Decorative Leaves Coloring Page

Three roses sit together at the middle of the page. The largest faces you square on, with a tight spiral of inner petals and five broad outer petals folding back, and two smaller blooms tuck in behind it at the upper left and upper right. Below and around them spread nine large leaves, each outlined boldly and then filled with a herringbone of vein lines that leaves you the choice of shading between the veins or ignoring them. Thin tendrils curl up from behind the flowers and finish in tight spirals, four of them, and they are the only delicate element on what is otherwise a heavy sheet. A single stem drops from the bouquet to the bottom edge. Those leaf veins decide how long this takes. Skip them and the page is a twenty minute job in three colors. Work inside them and the leaves alone will hold you for an hour, and the sheet will be far better for it. The rose petals are generous and forgiving by comparison, which makes this a sensible place to test a blending technique before committing it to one of the denser pages in this set.