Butterfly Landing On A Dandelion Puff Coloring Page
One oversized dandelion clock fills most of the sheet, its filaments radiating from a dark middle while a butterfly settles on the upper edge.
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A single dandelion seed head takes up most of this page, drawn far larger than life so that its structure is easy to follow. Fine filaments radiate out from a small dense middle, and each one widens at its tip into a little parachute, giving the sphere a soft prickly outline rather than a smooth curve.
The stem runs straight down from the head to a bed of long grass blades that cross and lean against one another along the bottom edge. Above and to the right, a butterfly has come to rest on the outer filaments with its wings held open, light enough that the seed head is not disturbed.
A handful of loose seeds have already broken away and drift across the open paper, and two more butterflies are in the air near the top corner. Those small floating pieces are worth leaving pale, since they suggest movement that heavier work would flatten.
The radiating filaments form hundreds of narrow wedges. Colorists who enjoy gradient work will find them ideal, shifting gradually from one tone at the middle to another at the rim. Anyone wanting something quicker can treat the whole head as a single soft tone and put the detail into the grass instead.
