Airshow With Stunt Planes Coloring Page

This Airshow With Stunt Planes Coloring Page has two halves that could not be more different. Across the top, five stunt planes climb in a V, seen from directly below, each trailing a thick column of smoke that runs the full height of the page. Along the bottom, a crowd stands behind a wire fence with flags on poles at either end, heads turned up and two arms pointing. A free printable airshow coloring page for ages 6 to 12, and the busiest sheet in this collection.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we entered the concept: "several stunt planes climbing in formation at an airshow, smoke trails streaming down the page to a crowd watching at the bottom" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds.

Asking for the crowd is what made this an airshow instead of five planes flying. A display only exists because people came to watch it, and putting the audience in the request meant the drawing had to include the ground, the barrier and the distance between the two. The smoke trails then had a job: they connect the top of the page to the bottom.

What is in this airshow coloring page

The smoke is not drawn as a smooth ribbon. Each column is built from small rounded lobes stacked one on another, the way real smoke actually piles up as it leaves the aircraft and starts to spread.

That choice turns the empty middle of the page into the part worth doing. Five columns of bumps running top to bottom give a colorist far more to work with than five straight lines would have.

Counted out: five aircraft sit in a V, the leader highest and the outer two lowest, each shown from below with straight wings, a nose spinner and a small oval marking on the fuselage. Their five smoke columns each hold roughly twenty five stacked lobes and reach nearly to the crowd. Below, about a dozen spectators are drawn from behind as overlapping rounded heads and shoulders, three of them in caps, one in a wide brim hat, with two arms raised and pointing. Two flags fly from poles at the outer edges, and the fence across the foreground is a diamond mesh of crossing diagonals held by four upright posts. Behind the crowd, two clumps of round headed trees close off the field at either side, and a plain horizontal line runs between them as the far edge of the airfield.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Display teams use colored smoke, usually in the colors of a national flag, so the five columns are an invitation rather than a problem. Red, white and blue across the five, or any three colors repeated, and the middle of the page organizes itself.

Leave the mesh of the fence alone. It is the finest line work on the sheet, and any color pushed through it makes the crowd behind it harder to read.

Vary the crowd deliberately. A dozen figures in a dozen different colors reads as a real audience, while a crowd in one or two colors reads as a pattern and loses the sense of people.