Butterfly Drinking from a Puddle on a Forest Path Coloring Page

A butterfly stands at the middle of this sheet with its wings held high and open. Both pairs carry a thick dark border studded with a row of white ovals, and inside that border the surface divides into long tapering cells drawn from base to rim. Its thorax is a dense ball of fur, which gives the insect a weight that most coloring butterflies do not have.

It rests in a shallow puddle, marked by three rings spreading out from its feet. Birch trunks rise at both edges of the page, bark scored with short horizontal dashes, and the path between them runs back into the distance dotted with flat stones and smaller pools. Leafy plants bank up in both lower corners and flower in small five petal clusters.

That furry body is the feature worth planning around. Work it in short strokes that follow the lie of the fur instead of filling it flat, and keep it a shade or two warmer than the wings. The ripple rings can stay almost white, so the puddle reads as water rather than as a solid plate.