Sun Mandala With Intricate Compass Rose Design Coloring Page
A sixteen point needle star inside one large circle, drawn in fine hatching that reads soft gray.
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A single large circle encloses most of this design, and inside it a sixteen point star of long needles reaches out toward the rim, each needle drawn with fine parallel lines running along its length. Within the star sits a layered rosette of shorter petals, and at the very middle a small disc filled with fine stipple. Outside the circle, a further ring of about sixteen ornate petals fans out to form the edge of the mandala. The whole drawing is executed in thin close set lines rather than bold outline, which gives it a soft gray appearance overall rather than a stark black and white one. That softness changes how to approach it. Heavy marker will overwhelm the fine hatching completely, whereas colored pencil laid lightly lets the lines show through and the page keeps its delicacy. Treat the circle as a genuine boundary. Coloring inside and outside it differently, rather than running one scheme across the whole mandala, is what makes the compass read as a compass rather than a flower.
