Mini Cooper in a Quaint European Village coloring page
Mini Cooper in the foreground, parked in a cobblestone street with Tudor-style cottages and flower boxes at their windows and a fountain of stone painted in outline of clean basic shapes--to be colored...
The fresh look of this Mini Cooper in a Quaint European Village coloring page catalyzes young artists to another animated fairytale village, as the small car has the rounded corners of headlights, curvy roof, and an indelible grill displayed with ever-easy lines. The street beneath its wheels is very narrow, and the cob-stones are quite low arched, one ending to the other by a line which suggests carefully-coloured decoration, or darts of Hindu play. Turned at corner or end half-timbered cottages are built, with shuttered windows and hanging flower boxes, their sides swept to the same rule that budding colorists may make the bricks, or the plaster, or the timber any hue that they desire. The elements in the background are a rustic stone fountain bubbling in the village square behind the Mini, framed at the basin and central column to suggest imagination water effects, towards the background a church steeple and distant rolling hills rise above rooftops--there is plenty of space to allow skies, clouds, even a sunlit gradient. Other details such as a wrought-iron street lamp, a stray cat resting against a doorway and a wooden bench by a climbing vine invite story-making: children can include market stalls, bicycles resting against walls and villagers going past. The whole picture is enclosed in a neat rectangular frame that makes it centered around the balance between the automotive and the old world. Filling in the body and wheels of the Mini, the colorists develop their fine-motor skill; surrounding village encourages them to experiment with texture, seeing weathered stone and blooming petals; practically every page becomes a European picture, just waiting to be colored.
