Stained-glass Christmas dove with spread wings, olive sprig, and sharp radiant glass panels

Stained-Glass Christmas Dove With Olive Sprig

A front-facing dove lifts wide layered wings, clutching an olive sprig against a burst of pointed stained-glass rays.

🎨 How to color it

Give the dove a pearl white body with pale blue shadows, the olive sprig silvery green, and the jagged background panes amber, ruby, and winter teal. Use sharp colored pencils for the narrow wing feathers and triangular glass shards, layering lightly so the black lead lines stay crisp. Try a warm-to-cool glow that begins golden behind the dove’s head and deepens toward blue at the outer corners.

The story behind this coloring page

Corin’s Window Secret — Before the tide bell, Corin needed one blue shard to finish the Christmas window, so he left the warm cutting bench and climbed the salt-damp stair where gulls scratched the roof like matchsticks. Read the full story →

Before the tide bell, Corin needed one blue shard to finish the Christmas window, so he left the warm cutting bench and climbed the salt-damp stair where gulls scratched the roof like matchsticks. The bell rope burned his palm; fair price, he thought, for stealing a look where apprentices never looked. Behind the dull practice pane lay a pressed olive twig wrapped in vellum, its leaves marking angles no ruler had given him. “Of course,” he whispered. Back below, he cut each piece by hand, proud of the tiny ache in his thumb, and the window rang blue before the tide bell.