Worker Bees Building Honeycomb Inside the Hive Coloring Page
Looking inside the hive at a broad slab of comb, with five worker bees at work across its hexagon cells.
0 downloads · 2 views
This sheet takes you inside, which none of the others in the group do. A broad slab of comb hangs in the middle of the frame, built from row after row of even hexagons, and the hive wall curves around it on all sides in thick rounded layers. Five workers are spread across the comb face. Each one has a striped body, a pair of veined wings and legs braced against the cells, and they sit at different angles so the group looks busy rather than posed. Grass and leaves show along the bottom edge where the hive opens up. The comb is the challenge and the reward. There are well over a hundred cells and coloring every one identically will take an hour, so a better plan is to shade a patch of them, leave a patch white, and let the eye fill in the rest. That also makes the bees stand out. Keep the outer wall in a single warm tone so it frames the comb instead of competing with it. A sharp pencil handles the cell walls far more cleanly than any marker will.
