Beekeeper Tending a Row of Hives Coloring Page

Here is the human side of honey, and the sheet has more going on than most in this group. A beekeeper stands behind a stack of five wooden hive boxes, wearing a hooded suit with a veil across the face. Long folds run down the sleeves and body of the suit, which gives a colorist somewhere to vary a single shade rather than flooding it. The boxes carry horizontal plank lines and short grain marks, and they stack into a neat tower that anchors the middle of the page. In gloved hands the keeper holds a frame up and out, and the comb inside it is a proper grid of small hexagons. That frame rewards patience more than anything else on the sheet. Tall grass fills the bottom third in loose vertical strokes, with a few seed heads poking above it. Small bees scatter through the sky on both sides. Keep the suit pale and the boxes warm, and the keeper stands out from the wooden stack. This one suits an older child or an adult who wants an evening of steady work.