Sloth Holding a Hibiscus Flower Coloring Page

The flower is the reason to print this one. It opens at the right of the page with five broad petals, each ruled with fine radiating veins that run from the throat outward, and a long stamen arches up out of the middle and ends in a loose cluster of round anthers. One slim leaf sits on the stem below. Against all that the sloth is almost bare, a smooth body with no fur strokes below the neck and a face ringed with short spiked points. It holds the stem in its upper paw while the other arm rests along its side, and both back feet show three curved claws each. The outer petal reaches the right edge of the paper and stops there, so the bloom opens outward instead of sitting politely inside a frame. Red and pink are the obvious choices for a hibiscus, but the veining is fine enough to hold a gradient for anyone willing to work at it. The result gives a careful colorist one detailed subject and an easy, forgiving animal to go beside it, which is a good combination for two people working on the same sheet.