Bat Sleeping in a Rocky Cave Coloring Page
A bat sleeps hanging from a cave roof, framed by heavy rock slabs that give this sheet a real setting to color.
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Rock frames three sides of this page. The cave is drawn as a run of thick angular slabs that close in from the left, the right and the ceiling, each one outlined in a heavy line with a few interior cracks, and they leave a clear open pocket of paper in the middle where the animal hangs.
The bat is upside down in that pocket. Two legs reach up to the ceiling and grip it with clawed feet drawn in surprising detail, the body runs straight down, and the wings spread out from the shoulders near the top as two pointed membranes with scalloped edges.
At the bottom of the figure is the head, asleep. The eyes are two closed curves with lashes, the mouth is a small contented line, and the ears are drawn as wide fanned shapes that spread either side of the face like a second small pair of wings. They are ears, not extra limbs, which is worth saying because the first glance can read the other way.
The rock slabs are the slow part. There are a dozen or more of them, each a separate closed field, so this one can take a full range of grays and browns and still have somewhere left to go.
