Decorative Sugar Skull Face With Floral Patterns Coloring Page

Here is the sugar skull reduced to its essentials, and it is much the better for it. A five petal flower sits centered on the forehead with two smaller blooms flanking it and a pair of curved leaf shapes sweeping down past the temples. Each socket is a large open circle ringed by a heavy chain of dots, and crucially the inside is left white, so unlike several other skulls in this set you get to decide what happens in the eyes. A small solid heart forms the nose, and the mouth is a wide even tooth row with a stitched line above and a small flourish curling at each end. Below the jaw sit two full roses with a flower and four pointed leaves between them. The absence of tiny detail makes this the sheet to hand to a teenager or to anyone coloring with markers rather than pencils. Every shape is big enough to fill in one confident stroke. Traditional calavera decoration uses bright contrasting shades with no shading at all, so flat blocks of color are the correct approach and not a shortcut. Put your boldest shade in the open sockets, since they are the largest free areas on the page.