Intricate stained glass owl with zentangle feathers, crescent moon, stars, branches, and leafy vines

Zentangle Owl Under Moon and Stars

A wide-eyed owl grips a patterned branch beneath a crescent moon, with stars, leaves, and swirling feather panels all around.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Stained Glass collection, made for teens and adults, drawn in a Zentangle style.

🎨 How to color it

Layer amber and chestnut through the owl’s feather panels, use deep sapphire for the crescent-moon glass, and touch the stars with pale gold. Because the owl is packed with tiny curls, leaf veins, and narrow stained-glass segments, use sharp pencils and color one enclosed shape at a time. Try making the owl’s huge eyes warm honey against a cool violet-blue night, so the stare feels almost lantern-lit.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 574 zones and 14 colors, sized for adults. Tiny unnumbered slivers borrow the color of their neighbors, and the little model above shows the finished page whenever you want to check your work. More grids like this live in our color by number gallery.

Prefer classic line art? Open this drawing as a regular coloring page.

The story behind this coloring page

Quill’s Questionable Moon Game — Under the observatory’s glass roof, Quill tapped a pencil against his teacup and invented a game called What Is the Moon Hiding Now? Read the full story →

Under the observatory’s glass roof, Quill tapped a pencil against his teacup and invented a game called What Is the Moon Hiding Now? The rules were excellent because he changed them whenever he was losing: one point for a star, two for a leaf, three if the owl blinked first. Silver light smelled faintly of rain on stone, and the panes answered with tiny warm ticks. Then Quill noticed the owl was not a judge at all; its patterned feathers were keeping score in curls, crescents, and smug little spirals. He bowed, accused it of cheating beautifully, and played until dawn tapped its pencil against the roof.