Dragonfly Over Reed Stalks in a Tall Glass Panel Coloring Page

Four reed stalks rise through the lower half of this panel, and the dragonfly hangs above them with both pairs of wings fully open. Each wing is broken into irregular leaded segments that run long and narrow toward the tips and crowd together where they meet the body, so a single hue pulled from dark at the shoulder to pale at the tip will read as light passing through glass. The abdomen is banded into short segments and tapers to a point just above the reeds. Those reeds are drawn as narrow outlined ribbons rather than flat lines, which leaves a sliver of white inside each one that you can hold back as a highlight. A heavy rectangular frame encloses everything, with a band of small rectangular panes across the top and another across the bottom. The reed tips cross that lower band, so decide early whether the glass behind them stays neutral or shifts. The side channels are left empty on purpose. Treat them as the lead came and leave them white, or fill them with a flat border tone to square the composition off. Open areas are generous enough for markers, and the wing segments are large enough that pencils will not fight the lines.