Tulip Panel in a Three Part Stained Glass Window Coloring Page

A single tulip stands on a long straight stem in the middle of this panel, its bloom built from three visible petal cells, with three blade leaves springing away from the base, one to the left and two to the right. Behind it the background breaks into broad irregular shards, and a shallow curved canopy arcs over the flower head. Around all of it runs a Prairie style grid of mullions, and four square corner blocks come already inked solid black. Those blocks are the only filled areas on the page. Everything else is open, the outlines are thick, and the cells are large, so markers work here and a younger colorist will not lose the shapes. Give the tulip one saturated red or amber and resist spreading that warmth anywhere else. Hold every background shard inside a single cool family, blues or greens or grays, and the bloom stays the only warm thing behind the lead. The leaves want two greens rather than one so they separate where they overlap. The canopy above the flower is best left pale, since it reads as sky. Children from about six will manage this comfortably in half an hour, and it frames well enough to hang afterward.