Deer in a Birch Forest With Ferns and Dappled Light Coloring Page
A stag stands among close packed birch trunks, their dark bark marks filling almost the whole page.
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Print this one only if you want a challenge, because it carries more ink than anything else in the group. Birch trunks fill the sheet from edge to edge, packed close together, and every one of them is scored with the dark lenticel marks that make birch bark recognizable. Those marks arrive filled in solid, so most of the background is already very dark, and the practical effect is that the sheet works as a negative. The deer stands in the middle in a pool of white, almost untouched, with a tall rack and a calm forward stare. All the color you add will read against that black and white wall behind it. Keep the animal warm and light and it will glow. Ferns and low conifer branches crowd the bottom edge in fine overlapping fronds, and a canopy of small leaves fills the upper right. Those two zones are where a colorist can actually make choices. Take this one slowly with a sharp pencil, and accept from the start that the birches are meant to stay mostly black.
