Tall Lancet Window With Layered Border Panels Coloring Page

A narrow lancet stands under a steeply pointed arch, and its construction is strictly vertical. Two stacked layers of small square panes wrap the entire outline, arch included. Inside them, left and right, sit quiet fields of large square panes with a small diamond jewel tucked into each corner junction. Running up the middle, full height, is a spine of interlocking diamond and hexagon cells that opens at the top into a tracery head of small ovals and rings. Grids make this methodical rather than hard. There is a lot to fill, but you always know where the next cell is, and that is a different kind of work from the crowded rose windows. Put one strong saturated hue through the central spine and nothing else, then hold the flanking squares to two quiet values, and the eye travels straight up the window the way the architecture intends. The corner jewels want a single accent repeated without variation. Border layers read best in two tones rather than one, inner darker than outer, which gives the panel a frame that reads as depth. Colored pencils suit the spine; the square fields are wide enough for markers if you want to cover ground faster. Budget forty five minutes for the whole sheet.