Polar Bear Mother and Cub in the Snow Coloring Page

Snow is falling on this one. Six six pointed flakes are drawn in the upper half, each one a different arrangement of spokes and side branches, with a scatter of small open circles between them standing in for lighter flurries.

Below them the adult bear lies stretched out on the ground, facing right, head raised and muzzle lifted slightly as though scenting the air. Her body is drawn with very long unbroken curves and almost no interior detail, just a few short strokes at the shoulder and haunch to suggest the direction of the fur. The cub sits close against her, small and upright, with its own round ears and a dark eye.

A low bank of snow rises behind the cub, and a soft drift line runs across the bottom of the sheet with one or two shallow curves marked in it.

Because polar bears are white, the usual approach of filling the animal does not apply. The interest is in the surroundings: a cold blue sky behind the flakes, a faint blue or lilac in the shadows of the drift, and the two bears left mostly as paper. That makes it a good sheet for a child learning that leaving white is a choice.