Butterfly With Sectioned Wings in a Square Glass Panel Coloring Page

A butterfly sits open winged in the middle of a plain leaded square. Each forewing divides into seven or eight long tapering cells spreading out from the body, and each hindwing does the same beneath a softly scalloped outer edge. The body is an oval thorax over an abdomen banded into five segments, and two antennae rise to small ball tips. Behind it the panel splits into about a dozen big rectangular panes in three columns, with two gentle curves sweeping across them near the top and bottom. Scale is the whole story on this one, because every single cell is a large cell. That makes it a genuinely good page for a young child and for anyone working with broad markers or a thick nibbed pen, and it is one of the few sheets here that does not punish a heavy hand. Run a value gradient outward along each wing, deepest where it meets the body and palest at the rim, and the wings gain depth without any blending. Then hold all dozen background panes to one flat color so the butterfly stays the only event on the page. The two curves can take a slightly different tint if you want the glass to look sectioned. Twenty minutes is plenty.