Sleeping Bear Curled Up in Its Den Coloring Page

A rock arch curves over the top of this page, built from long angular slabs that lean in from both sides and meet overhead. Each slab is outlined separately with a few cracks drawn inside it, so the den reads as stacked stone rather than one solid mass, and the opening it leaves is a wide rounded space of bare paper.

Inside that space the bear sleeps, curled into one smooth closed loop with its head resting on a front paw. Both eyes are drawn shut as simple curved lines, the muzzle is short, and the nose is filled. A couple of long strokes mark the fold where the back legs tuck under the body, but otherwise the whole animal is one uninterrupted shape.

Fallen leaves are scattered across the den floor, two dozen or so, each a small pointed outline with a center vein. A few tufts of grass grow at the mouth of the cave.

The stone is where the work is. A dozen separate slabs can take a dozen slightly different grays, and doing that is what makes the sleeping shape in the middle stand out as the one warm thing on the page.