Swan Gliding on Water Cells in an Arched Glass Panel Coloring Page

A swan glides to the left across an arched window, its neck curved back over its shoulder and its wing raised in a soft stack of feather panes. The body is one broad open area, which makes the sheet far quicker to finish than it looks. One small dot marks the eye and a short line divides the beak.

Above the bird the arch head is cut into a fan of panes that radiate up from the spring line, so the top of the page reads as a real window rather than a frame around a picture. Below the swan, the glass runs in horizontal bands broken into long rectangles, and those bands fill the bottom third of the panel on their own.

Two triangular spandrels sit in the upper corners, each holding a plain circle. They are the smallest shapes on the sheet and the obvious place for your darkest value.

Keep the swan pale, because it is the largest unbroken area and a heavy tone there flattens the whole window. Push the fan panes and the water bands two or three steps deeper and the bird lifts forward without any shading at all. Markers work everywhere here. Twenty five minutes gets this window finished.