Catholic Mary Coloring Page with a Long Mantle, Stars and Roses

The Virgin Mary stands at the center of this Catholic Mary coloring page with her head bowed and her eyes closed. Her hands are joined in prayer in front of her chest. A long veil covers her hair, and a flowing mantle falls around her to the ground. Small stars form an arch around her head, and full roses gather at her feet.

The long folds and the layered rose petals suit children of about 8 and older, along with teens and adults who color. Catechists and teachers at Catholic schools can use the page for a lesson about Mary, for a May crowning or on one of her feast days.

How this coloring page was created

This page started with one idea typed into Colorin AI: "the Virgin Mary standing with her hands joined in prayer, wearing a long veil and a flowing mantle, with a halo of small stars around her head and roses around her feet, drawn with clean outlines, the whole figure kept small enough to leave a wide white margin below it, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page".

The words "hands joined in prayer" set the pose, with the fingers of the two hands pressed together and pointing up. The phrase "a halo of small stars" put separate stars around her head, with white paper showing between them. The words "a long veil and a flowing mantle" gave the figure long lines of cloth from the top of her head to the ground.

Inside This Catholic Mary Coloring Page

Mary stands alone on a plain white background, so the attention goes to her face and her hands.

The open background also helps in a classroom, because the figure stands out from across the room once the mantle is colored. A catechist can open the class with a prayer to Mary and then hand out the sheets.

Small five-pointed stars form an arch around her head, spread evenly from one side of the veil to the other. The veil begins at a center part in her hair and runs past her shoulders. Her dress has a round collar band, a narrow band at the waist and long straight folds below it. Her wide sleeves end in turned-back cuffs. The mantle has a border drawn with a double line, and that border waves down the two sides of the figure and curls near the hem.

At her feet are five open roses, with one higher up on each side and three in a low row across the front. Every rose is built from layered petals that turn in toward a small center. A closed rosebud sits at each end of the low row, and pointed leaves with a center vein grow between the flowers.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Many images of Mary show a blue mantle and a white dress, and those colors fit this drawing well. Gold or yellow suits the stars. The border of the mantle can take a lighter blue or a thin line of gold, so it stands apart from the cloth.

For the roses, three shades of one color give the layered petals depth, with the darkest shade at the center and the lightest on the outer petals. Two greens separate the leaves from each other. Colored pencils reach the narrow border and the small petals.

If your parish honors Mary under a particular title, create a Marian page with that title in big letters for your next class.

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