Rake Beside A Pile Of Raked Leaves Coloring Page

A long handled rake stands propped at an angle with its fan of tines spread wide at the top, and banked up against it is a generous mound of fallen leaves. Every leaf in the heap is drawn as its own pointed shape with a stem and a central vein, and there are dozens of them overlapping across the pile, with two or three strays resting on the ground off to the sides. The pile is the reason to print this one. All those separate leaves make it an ideal page for working through a whole autumn range, laying reds against golds against browns so the heap gains depth instead of reading as one solid block. Children who want to finish quickly can pick three tones and repeat them in rotation, which looks surprisingly effective for very little effort. The rake gives the composition its backbone and needs only two or three colors, with the narrow tines being the only part that calls for a finer tip. It captures the best part of a November garden.