Patterned Koala With Australian Wildflowers Coloring Page

A zentangle treatment turns the animal into the pattern. The koala sits in profile facing right, and from the neck down its body is packed with open circles of every size, rings nested inside rings, and wide loose spirals. No two of those shapes are quite the same size, and they tile the torso edge to edge without a gap.

The head is deliberately left alone. One eye, a long rounded muzzle, a mouth line and nothing else, so the face stays plain against the busiest field on the page. One large fringed ear fills the upper left and the second sits behind it.

Wildflowers grow around the base. Several open daisy heads with narrow petals ring the bottom, a smaller bud rises on a stem at the right, and blades of grass and a few broad leaves fill the corners.

The pattern sets its own pace. Give each circle its own color and the body turns into a mosaic. Hold to two or three tones and let the sizes do the work instead, and the koala still reads as an animal from across the room. Either way the plain face keeps the sheet from turning into noise.