Water Lily Pond Stained Glass Panel Coloring Page

Four water lilies open on separate stems inside a double oval ring, with five broad pads spread below them and the pond behind cut into irregular crazed glass. The tallest bloom sits at the back, two more stand across the middle, and a smaller one leans in from the left. Round bosses are set into the oval at four points, a small fleur ornament caps it top and bottom, and a border of rectangular panes with scrolled corner blocks closes the panel. Pads and blossoms are large, but the water behind them carries dozens of small pieces, so allow forty five minutes or more. Restraint in the water is what makes this sheet work. Hold the pond to two or three greens and blues used in loose patches rather than coloring each shard separately, and give the blossoms a pale pink or cream. The flowers then lift clear off the surface instead of sinking into it. Pads want a deeper green than the water so the layering stays legible. Each one carries radiating vein lines you can follow or ignore. The border is calm enough to take a single repeated tone, and leaving the four bosses bare white gives the frame the look of set glass jewels.