Decorated Festival Elephant With A Patterned Blanket Coloring Page

A cheerful elephant stands in profile facing left with its trunk curled up over its head, which is the pose you see on festival posters and on temple gates. Over its back lies a rectangular blanket, and the blanket is where all the pattern on this page lives. The top half carries rows of teardrop shapes, each one outlined twice, and below them runs a band of circles in two sizes with tiny dots filling the spaces between. A row of larger circles marks the hem, and a line of dashes sits just above it to suggest stitching. The elephant underneath is drawn plain by contrast, one smooth body outline with a broad ear, a small filled eye, two visible tusks and a thin tail. Around each ankle sits a band of open circles, like the anklets a decorated elephant actually wears. Doing the blanket in one palette and the animal in another is the quickest way to make this sheet look finished. It is the only animal in the set that is clearly dressed for a festival rather than simply standing in one.