Peony Flowers With Ornate Vine Borders Coloring Page

Four open peonies are arranged inside a thin circular frame that almost touches the edges of the sheet. The blooms overlap heavily: one at the top facing forward with a ruffled crown of inner petals, two at the sides turned three quarters away, and a fourth crowding in from the right. Long pointed leaves and four straight stems drop out of the cluster and converge at the bottom of the circle. The frame is a single fine line ringed with solid dots and tiny spirals at regular intervals, closed top and bottom by a small symmetrical flourish. Everything here is large and open. There is no fine texture anywhere except in the ruffled peony centers, which makes this the most approachable sheet in the floral set and a sensible one to hand to anyone who finds the intricate pages tiring. The dotted frame takes color well, and doing all those dots in one strong shade pulls the page together. The petals are broad enough that a gradient running from the flower center outward is easy to control, and there is enough white paper left inside the circle for one really bright color to work without shouting.