Poppy Heads in a Leaded Glass Border Panel Coloring Page

Two poppies open across the top of this panel, their petals broad and softly crumpled, each one a closed area with a few fold lines running through it. At the heart of each blossom sits a round boss ringed by a circle of small bead cells, and those bead rings are the finest work on the sheet.

Below the flowers the stems bend and cross. A closed seed pod hangs on one of them, a pointed bud sits lower on the left wrapped in a leaf, and two long leaves sweep in from the bottom corners. The stems carry small node rings where they bend.

Behind all of it the glass is laid out as brickwork, rectangles of uneven width stacked in rows that step across the panel, and a heavy mitered frame wraps the lot.

Red is the obvious choice for poppies and it is the right one. Keep the two blossoms slightly different in value so they separate where they overlap, and take the bead rings darker than the boss they surround. The brick background does best with two close cool tones alternated at random. Markers suit the petals and the bricks, a sharp pencil suits the beads. Expect to spend about thirty five minutes.