Mexican Folk Art Style Sugar Skull With Birds Coloring Page

Symmetry holds this design together. A sugar skull faces forward with a large eight petal flower centered on its forehead, and a bird stands on each side of the crown with its wings partly spread and its tail sweeping outward, so the two of them mirror each other exactly. Both sockets are filled with a bloom of narrow radiating petals ringed by dots, the nose is a small dark heart, and the mouth is a broad grin with a stitched line running through it and a curled flourish at either end. Below the jaw, two long petaled blooms open to the left and right, and a slim diamond and spearpoint motif drops from the chin. Small paired leaves fill the upper corners. The folk art influence is genuine rather than decorative shorthand: birds carrying flowers appear constantly in Mexican craft traditions, and the bright unmixed palette of that work suits this page. Choose four strong shades, use each one twice on opposite sides of the center line, and the symmetry does the composing for you. Keeping the two birds identical is more effective than making them a matched pair in different colors, which pulls the eye off the skull.