Autumn Harvest Moon Over A Farm Coloring Page
An enormous cratered moon sitting low behind a farmhouse and barn, over fields of cut stubble.
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A very large moon sits low behind a farmhouse and barn, filling much of the upper half of the sheet, with fields of stubble stretching away in front and a line of bare trees along the horizon. The artist has textured the moon's surface with craters and drawn every shingle on the barn roof. Fine hatching in the sky suggests dusk. This is a detailed page and it suits adults and older teenagers who want something atmospheric.
The temptation is to make the moon yellow, and it is worth resisting. Leave it as bare paper or the palest cream, then build a graded wash of deep blue and violet in the sky around it, darkest at the top corners. The moon will look far brighter than any yellow could make it. Keep the farm buildings in warm browns and one soft lit window in orange, and the whole scene will read as evening.
The harvest moon is a real and useful thing. It is the full moon falling nearest the autumn equinox, and it rises soon after sunset several nights running, which once gave farmers extra hours of light to finish bringing in a crop.
