Giraffe Reaching for Leaves at the Top of a Tree Coloring Page

The giraffe takes the full height of the page, which is exactly the point of the picture. Its neck runs from the bottom right corner up to the top left, where the muzzle meets the leafy crown of a tree, and the whole body is broken into a patchwork of irregular blocks separated by narrow channels of white. Nobody needs to color every block. Leaving roughly a third of them bare paper produces a better result than filling all of them, and it costs far less effort. Two small ossicones sit on top of the head, and the long tail ends in a tuft that arrives already dark. The tree beside it has a tall trunk marked with bark plates and a crown of small pointed leaves on thin branches. One leaf drifts loose in the middle of the page, and a bird flies at the right edge. Grass sprouts at the base of the trunk. Because the giraffe is so tall and thin, the sheet holds a lot of white space on the right, which takes a plain sky wash well if the page looks bare when you finish.