Sun and Moon in a Leaded Glass Arch Window Coloring Page

A sun with a human face in profile sits on the left of this arch window, looking across at a plain crescent moon on the right. The sun is a round disc ringed by a crown of pointed rays, and the face inside it is drawn with a closed eye, a straight nose and a calm mouth, all in a few confident lines. The moon opposite carries no face, just a broad closed crescent with a narrow inner band along its curve.

The window around them is drawn as real architecture rather than as a motif. A heavy arch rises over the whole composition with voussoir blocks stepping round it, two scroll corbels sit where the arch meets its columns, and behind everything a full grid of rectangular lights runs edge to edge in rows and columns. The grid continues outside the arch as well, which is what makes the panel read as a real window rather than a picture of one.

Give the sun warm golds, leave the moon pale and cool, and the two halves of the page will balance on their own. The grid behind takes a slow shift from light at the top to deep at the base beautifully. Markers suit the lights, a pencil suits the face. Around forty minutes.