Day Of The Dead Skull Surrounded By Marigold Flowers Coloring Page

Flowers press in from all four edges, large daisy heads with long narrow petals and thickly ringed centers, and they overlap the skull at the shoulders so it sits inside the bouquet rather than in front of it. The skull carries some of the finest line work in the set. Its forehead is covered in scrolled foliage running symmetrically out from a central crest, both sockets hold a full rosette of pointed petals inside a beaded ring, and a small band of hatched detail follows the curve of each cheekbone. Three teardrop shapes hang under each eye. The nose is a rounded heart and the teeth run in a long even row with a chain of tiny circles above them. Marigolds are the flower of the Day of the Dead for a practical reason, since their scent is strong enough to guide the returning dead home, and their deep orange is the shade this page is asking for. Fill the petals warm and the skull cool, and the contrast will carry the whole sheet. The teardrops are the one place a small touch of blue does something the rest of the palette cannot.