Stag Under a Full Moon in a Winter Forest Coloring Page

Mood is what this sheet is selling. A large moon hangs in the top left with faint crater shapes marked on its surface, and a stag stands below it in snow with its head turned toward the viewer. Bare trees rise on both sides, their trunks straight and their branches splitting into finer and finer twigs against an empty sky, and small conifers and reeds fill the middle distance. Flakes drift through the air as scattered dots. The animal carries a tall swept rack and a thick winter coat, marked with short fur strokes down the neck and chest that catch a second tone nicely. Snow covers the ground in smooth banked drifts with only a few grass stems breaking through. The temptation is to color the sky dark, and it does look dramatic, but a very pale blue wash with the moon left as bare paper reads better in print and keeps the branch work visible. Save your strongest tone for the stag itself so the eye lands there first.