Christmas Star Shining Over A Snowy Village Coloring Page
A star hanging over a village of steep snowy roofs, its rays reaching down past the church spire.
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A large star hangs above a village of steep roofed houses under snow, with rays reaching down over the rooftops and a church spire at the center. This is one of the detailed pages: every roof carries individual snow laden tiles, the windows are divided into small panes, and the sky around the star is filled with fine radiating lines. Set aside a proper sitting for it.
A night scene tempts people into coloring the sky solid dark, which flattens everything. Better to grade it, deepest at the outside edges of the paper and lightest immediately around the star, so the light appears to come from somewhere. Leave the star itself as bare white paper. Warm yellow in the little windows against all that cool blue does the rest of the work.
Astronomers have argued for centuries about what the original star could have been. The leading candidates are a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 7 BC, which put two bright planets almost on top of each other, and a comet recorded by Chinese observers a few years afterward.
