Baby Elephant With Mother Touching Trunks Lovingly Coloring Page
A patterned calf tucks in under its mother's chin and curls its trunk up toward her, inside a border of flowers and fine scrollwork.
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The two animals overlap rather than stand apart, and that overlap is what the page is about. The mother fills the upper two thirds, head turned slightly, one long trunk banded in close rings dropping down the right side and curling back at the tip. Her ear is enormous and mapped with soft contour lines, her eye is drawn with a real lid and lashes, and a single tusk shows beneath her cheek.
The calf stands in front of her at the left, reaching only to her chin, and its own short trunk curls upward toward her mouth. Where the mother's skin is drawn with flowing lines that follow her anatomy, the calf is covered in applied ornament: a mandala on the ear, paisley down the shoulder, banded rings on each leg.
A decorative border runs around all four sides, built from many petaled flowers at the corners and midpoints with curling stems and small spirals strung between them.
Those border lines are the lightest on the page. Anything wet will swallow them.
If you want the embrace to read at a glance, work the mother in a single quiet tone and put your color variety into the calf's pattern cells. The eye goes to the busy shape, which here is the one you want people to notice.
