Butterfly Coloring Pages And 20 Ideas On How To Color Them
Even though summer is already over, it’s always fun to draw and color butterflies, no matter if it’s spring or winter. These 12 coloring pages include both simple and challenging butterfly designs. I also came up with 20 different ways you can color them. I hope these ideas will help you experiment with different colors and encourage you to try something new!
20 coloring ideas
1. Black and white/grayscale
Starting simple: you can never go wrong with using black and white. You could just use a normal cheap pencil or graphite pencils. If you have a black marker and a white gel pen, you can throw them in the mix as well!
2. Silver and gold
This is a good idea for those who like to use gel pens. Some coloring pencils have gold and silver colors too.
3. Monochromatic
Keep it very simple and use only one color, blue, for example.
4. Analogous color scheme
Analogous colors are a group of colors that can be found next to each other on the color wheel. The example above has the colors yellow, yellow-green, and green.
5. Triadic color scheme
Pick three colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. So, for example red, yellow and blue or orange, green and violet.
6. Rainbow
Here is an idea for those who want to use multiple colors instead: bright rainbow colors!
7. Neon colors
Speaking of bright, how about using neon colors?
8. Galaxy
Galaxies and butterflies—that is an interesting combination. A white gel pen might come in handy!
9. Sunset
If a galaxy sounds too challenging or tedious, you can try coloring a sunset butterfly instead.
10. Northern lights
Let’s keep gazing up at the sky and get inspired by the northern lights.
11. Berries
Nature is the best place to get color inspiration. Look up pictures of different berries. As you can probably tell from the butterfly above, its colors were inspired by a strawberry.
12. Fruits
Continuing with the nature theme, look up pictures of different fruits.
13. Flowers
Flowers come in many different colors and amazing color combinations.
14. Leaf
Here is another simple one: make your butterfly look like a leaf.
15. Animals
When I have trouble picking good colors, I sometimes search for pictures of different animals. For this butterfly, I chose a tiger’s color scheme.
16. Forest
Use earth tones: greens and browns. Maybe throw in some reds and blues too!
17. Fire
Instead of using just orange and yellow, you can add some blue flames as well.
18. Seasons
If I have trouble choosing colors for my artwork, I use the colors that fit the current season. It’s fall right now, so I would use reds, oranges, yellows and browns.
19. Day and night
You could color two different versions using day and night as color inspiration. Day: bright and mostly warm colors. Night: blues and violets with some yellows.
20. Real butterflies
And lastly, look up photos of real butterflies and get inspired by their beautiful colors!
I hope these butterfly coloring pages and coloring ideas will inspire you to create your own amazing butterfly designs too!
How to download these butterfly coloring pages
If you prefer to focus on one butterfly at a time, then the first download option is perfect for you. The butterflies on the pages are bigger too, so they take more time but are easier to color. If you like coloring small details and want multiple butterflies on the same page, then you might want to download the second one.
After clicking the download button, there should be print and save buttons, usually on the top-right corner.
These coloring pages are for non-commercial use! Have fun coloring!
