Geese Flying South Over Bare Trees Coloring Page

Four geese cross the top half of this page, each one seen from the side with its neck stretched straight ahead and its wings raised mid beat. The wings carry rows of long flight feathers drawn as separate strips, which is the only fine line work on the whole sheet, and the tail tips are barred in a way that gives each bird one dark accent to aim for. The birds are spaced apart rather than overlapping, so a child can work them one at a time without losing track. Along the bottom runs a row of about a dozen leafless trees, all thin trunks and bare forking branches, standing on a single long horizon line. That band of trees is much lighter in line weight than the geese, so it naturally falls back into the distance. Between the two sits a wide empty stretch of paper, and how you handle it decides the mood of the finished sheet. Left white it reads as a cold clear morning. Filled with a flat wash it becomes evening. Canada geese move south through November across most of the country, often low enough to hear, which is what makes this a page for the month rather than for winter.