Toucan Perched in the Aviary Coloring Page

This one has an unusual setting for an animal sheet. Behind the bird rises the gable end of a glasshouse aviary, and its frame divides the whole background into a lattice of rectangular panes that climb to a peak at the top of the page. Those panes are worth leaving mostly white or washing very faintly, because they are what makes the scene read as an enclosure rather than open jungle. The toucan perches on a branch across the middle, side on, with its enormous beak taking up nearly a third of its length. A band marks where the beak meets the face and a ring circles the eye. Large areas of the body arrive filled in dark, so the colorable parts are the bib at the throat, the beak, the barred patch on the wing and the long tail. Broad tropical leaves crowd in from both edges and along the bottom, drawn with strong center ribs. A bright beak against a pale glasshouse is the combination that makes this picture work.