How to color the kitten reading in an armchair page
Start with the armchair. It surrounds the kitten, so once it has a color you can see which fur color will stand out against it.
Step by step
- Fill the armchair: back, both arms and the front panel. Keep the seat cushion a lighter shade.
- Color the blanket in a warm color that contrasts with the chair.
- Fill the kitten's fur, then add the darker stripes on the head.
- Paw pads, ears and nose in pink. The pads are tiny: zoom in online, or sharpen the pencil.
- Book cover in a strong color, pages in cream or left white.
Tips for this picture
- Pick a cool chair and a warm kitten, or the other way round. Two warm colors next to each other blur together.
- The two round buttons on the chair arms look good in the blanket color: it ties the picture together.
- With pencils, shade the chair darker where the kitten sits against it. That shadow pushes the kitten forward.
Common mistakes
- Coloring the book pages dark: the book then reads as a hole in the middle of the picture.
- Filling the fringe as one block. Short strokes along each strand look better.
Print it instead
Download the PDF in US Letter or A4 and print at actual size (100%), in black and white. Use copy paper for pencils and crayons, cardstock for markers. More printing notes are on the cat coloring pages page.
