Autumn Leaves Blowing Around A Harvest Dinner Table Coloring Page

A laid table stands outdoors with leaves caught mid air all around it, tumbling across the plates and the cloth. The table carries a full setting, patterned plates, glasses, a runner down the middle and a centerpiece of gourds. In the detailed style every leaf has its veins drawn in and the cloth carries a woven texture. It is a busy page and a rewarding one.

The leaves are moving and the table is still, and your coloring can say so. Give the leaves strong saturated reds and oranges, keep the place settings in muted quieter tones, and the motion in the picture will read immediately. Vary the leaf colors by species rather than at random, maples red, oaks a deep russet brown, birch a clear yellow.

Leaves fall because the tree grows a deliberate seal. A layer of cells forms at the base of each stalk in autumn, weakening the join until wind or the leaf's own weight takes it, and that seal closes the wound behind it before winter arrives.