Gentle Dragon coloring page

A large friendly dragon offering a flower to a rabbit beside a lily pond.

Gentle Dragon coloring page line art — a large friendly dragon offering a flower to a rabbit beside a lily pond. The same Gentle Dragon coloring page coloured in using the palette below.
The line art, and one way of colouring it — using the 12 colours below.

What is on the page

A big, soft-featured dragon lies down at the edge of a lily pond and holds out a single flower to a rabbit sitting upright in front of it. The dragon's body fills the right side of the page — scalloped back plates, a folded wing, a long tail curling round into the foreground, and a belly drawn in horizontal bands. Toadstools and rocks sit in the bottom left, lily pads and a water lily float on the pond, and broad trees close in overhead.

Colouring it

Large, open shapes — good for younger hands.

The dragon is one large surface broken into plates, belly bands and wing panels, which means you can shade it convincingly with a single colour and varying pressure. The rabbit and the flower are small and central, so a contrasting colour there pulls the eye to the moment the drawing is about. Toadstools are the excuse for red.

The palette

Every page in Imagine & Color ships with a palette chosen for that drawing. These are the 12 colours for Gentle Dragon, with the names they carry in the app — useful whether you are colouring on an iPad or matching pencils on paper.

Color this page in Imagine & Color
It is one of fifty pages in this month's library, with the palette above built in. Download free on the App Store, see what the app does, or browse the other pages.

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