Squirrel Carrying An Acorn Coloring Page

The squirrel sits side on facing right, gripping a single acorn against its chest with both front paws. Its tail is the headline feature, sweeping up behind the body in one enormous curl with no fur lines inside it at all. That blank tail is a gift for a young child, who can fill it with one color in seconds, and equally good for an older colorist practicing a soft gradient from dark at the base to pale at the tip. The acorn carries fine ridged lines across its cap, the only detailed area on the sheet. Its eye and nose arrive already inked solid black, so treat those as your fixed dark points and build the rest of your tones outward from them. Everything else, the ears, the rounded back, the small paws, sits in clean unbroken outline with plenty of room inside. A simple ground line runs under the animal and the remaining paper stays white. Print this alongside the acorn and oak leaf sheet in this collection and the two hang together as a matched pair.