How to color the pirate cat captain page
Start with the boat hull. The planks are long, simple bands, and they set the brown that everything else has to stand out from.
Step by step
- Fill the hull planks. Alternate two browns from plank to plank for a wooden look.
- Color the ship's wheel a darker brown so it shows in front of the hull.
- Fill the hat and eye patch in black or dark grey. Leave the skull and crossbones white.
- Color the cat, then the bandana.
- The parrot: red body, green and yellow wing, one color per feather row.
- Water last, in one or two blues. Leave the wave crests white.
Tips for this picture
- Dark grey works better than pure black for the hat when you color online: the drawn lines stay visible.
- The wheel has many small openings between the spokes. Online, zoom to 200% and tap each one; on paper, leave them the hull color.
- Keep the cat the brightest thing in the boat. If the hull is orange-brown, make the cat grey or white.
Common mistakes
- Filling the skull on the hat with the hat color: the pirate detail is gone.
- Coloring the sea the same blue as a blue parrot. Change one of them.
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.
