Stained-glass dog portrait with droopy ears, collar, bone, paw prints, and tennis balls

Stained-Glass Dog With Bone and Paw Prints

A solemn, droopy-eared dog holds a big bone beneath a mosaic of paw prints, tennis balls, and glassy curved panels.

🎨 How to color it

Try chestnut brown for the dog's face, honey gold for the bone, teal for the patterned collar, and lime green for the tennis balls. Use sharp colored pencils inside the narrow stained-glass strips around the ears and eyes, then shade the larger muzzle and bone panels with slower, even layers. For a window-glass effect, alternate two warm browns in the face pieces and add a pale blue glow to the background curves behind the paw prints.

The story behind this coloring page

Bram Waits for the Last Glow — Every evening, Bram pressed his bone between his paws and played his new game: count the kennel-window colors as the sun crossed them, but do not chew until the last one glowed. Read the full story →

Every evening, Bram pressed his bone between his paws and played his new game: count the kennel-window colors as the sun crossed them, but do not chew until the last one glowed. Amber warmed his nose, green slid over the floor, and the collar rings at his throat gave one soft tick. Then a storm folded itself over the roof, and the final pane stayed gray.

Because of that, Bram waited through the rain’s peppery smell and the drip-drip in the gutter. Because of that, the other dogs settled, one by one, until even the tennis balls lay silent in their basket. At last, a thin late beam slipped under the cloud and struck the highest paw-shaped pane. Bram lowered his head to the bone, patient as evening, while the last glow found him.