1. Sunflower
Two rows of petals round a head of more than a hundred seeds set in spirals.
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Flower coloring pages for adults
Eight flower pages: four single blooms that fill the page, a sunflower, a rose, a dahlia and a lotus, then a bouquet in a patterned vase, a frame of flowers round an empty panel, and two pages packed edge to edge with blossoms and leaves.
The flowers are seen from above, the way they are embroidered or stenciled, so every petal is a clear shape to fill. Print them on letter paper or color them on screen.
Each page prints on one sheet of US letter paper. Under every page are buttons to print just that one, to color it on screen, or to save it as a picture.
2. Rose from above
Five whorls of broad rounded petals, with leaves at the corners.
3. Dahlia
Six rows of pointed petals, each row shorter than the last.
4. Lotus
A lotus drawn as a mandala: rounded petals, a ring of beads and pointed outer petals.
5. Bouquet in a vase
Seven different flowers on stems in a banded vase.
6. Floral frame
A border of flowers and leaves round a blank panel for your own words.
7. Flower garden
A whole page of blossoms, large and small, with leaves between.
8. Flowers in bold lines
Fewer, larger flowers with heavy outlines.
About the flowers
The center of a sunflower is not one flower but hundreds of tiny ones, packed in two sets of spirals that turn in opposite directions. Count the spirals each way and you will usually get two neighboring numbers from the Fibonacci sequence, such as 34 and 55. The sunflower page is drawn by the same rule: each seed is placed a fixed turn, about 137.5 degrees, on from the last.
The dahlia is native to Mexico and is its national flower. The rose was named the national floral emblem of the United States in 1986. A garden rose can have dozens of petals in overlapping whorls, which is why the rose page is drawn as rings of five rounded petals, each ring turned a little from the one outside it.
Color ideas for these pages
Petals look natural when they are darker at the base and lighter at the tip. Lay down the light color over the whole petal first, then add the darker one from the center out to about halfway and blend where they meet.
On the packed pages, limit yourself to five flower colors and two greens, and scatter them so that the same color never touches itself. The empty panel in the floral frame is left for you: a name, a date, a line of a poem or a pressed flower.
Which page to start with
This set has 8 pages: 2 bold and easy, 5 medium and 1 detailed. The quickest to finish is “Rose from above,” with 35 areas to color, and the longest is “Floral frame,” with 816. Bold and easy pages have heavy lines and large shapes that suit markers and tired eyes; detailed pages have fine lines for sharp pencils or gel pens.
How printing, saving and coloring on screen work is explained on the coloring pages home. If you like filling shapes by number, Linseed Loft Color by Number is a free paint by number game with 74 pictures.