Arctic Fox Trotting In A Snowy Landscape Coloring Page

An arctic fox crosses an open field of snow, caught mid-stride with one forepaw lifted and its thick tail streaming out behind. The artist has drawn the coat in dense overlapping strokes that follow the body, and set the animal against low drifts, a few wind-carved ridges and a pale bank of cloud on the horizon. The fur texture is fine and continuous, which makes this a detailed sheet for adults and older teenagers.

Coloring a white animal on white ground sounds impossible and is actually the most useful exercise on the page. Do not color the fox. Instead, shade the snow behind and beneath it in the faintest blue-gray, press a little harder right along the fox's back and under its belly, and leave the animal itself as bare paper. It will appear out of the page. Save your only strong marks for the dark eyes and nose.

The fox earns that coat honestly. An arctic fox is brown or gray through the summer and grows a completely white winter coat as the season turns, and it even has fur on the soles of its paws, which works as insulation and as grip on ice.