Friendly Ghost Floating Through A Spooky Graveyard Coloring Page

A rounded cheerful ghost drifts between leaning headstones with its arms out and a curl of a smile on its face. The graveyard around it is suggested rather than filled in, a handful of stones, a bare tree, a low iron gate, all in bold clean outline. Nothing here is frightening, which makes it a good pick for a younger child who likes Halloween but not the scary end of it.

The trick with a white subject is to work on everything except the subject. Color the graveyard in cool blues and grays, push the tone darkest exactly where it touches the ghost, and the untouched paper will appear to give off light. If the ghost still looks unfinished, one soft gray line down a single side of the body is enough to give it an edge.

Headstones lean over for a mundane reason. Ground that freezes and thaws repeatedly through winter expands and contracts, and across decades that slow movement tips the stones out of true. It is frost, not anything supernatural.