Sunflower Stained Glass Panel With Radiating Petal Cells Coloring Page

One sunflower takes up nearly the whole panel. Its middle is a plain disc ringed by about eighteen small bead cells, and out of that spring two overlapping layers of pointed petals, each petal carrying a single vein line down its length. The stem below is thick and marked with node lines, with two long leaves swinging off it. A brick pattern of rectangular panes fills the background, an arched lead band curves across the top with spiral scroll pieces in its corners, and the outer frame is cut away at the corners. Those petal veins are the useful part. Each one splits its petal in two without breaking the one color per cell convention, so you can shift value from petal to petal all the way around and still read as proper leaded glass. Gold and amber petals against a cobalt background is the historically obvious answer and it looks right every time. Keep the bead ring darker than the disc it surrounds. The brick cells behind benefit from two close values alternated at random rather than a flat wash, which stops the background competing with the flower. Markers handle the petals and leaves easily. Allow about thirty minutes, a little more if you shade each brick individually.