Tiger Shark With Stripe Pattern In Deep Ocean Coloring Page

Five wide bands cross this shark's back, and every one of them arrives as an open outline with clean white paper inside, so the striping is yours to place rather than something the printer already decided. That makes the page easier than it looks. Alternate two shades of the same color, a dark band then a pale one, and the pattern reads the way a real tiger shark's does without any blending at all. Three short curved strokes behind the head are the gill slits, and they take a thin darker line if you want the head to sit forward. The body is one smooth shape with a single unbroken outline, the fins are large and plain, and two small bubbles drift above the back with nothing else in the water. All that empty paper around the animal is deliberate. A younger child can color the whole shark one flat blue gray and still finish with a sheet that looks right. A young tiger shark carries bold bars like these and they fade as it grows, so a large adult can look almost plain. The pattern here belongs to a juvenile.