Patterned Guitar Coloring Page

This Patterned Guitar Coloring Page keeps the shape of an acoustic guitar and fills the body with band after band of pattern, swirls and circles and stars stacked around the sound hole, with a row of open flowers across the foot. A free printable patterned guitar coloring page for ages 12 and up. The neck and headstock stay plain so the eye has somewhere to rest, and the body is dense enough to work through one band at a time over several sittings.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we entered the concept: "A guitar outline standing upright, filled with layered repeating decorative patterns" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds. The flowers along the lower edge came with it, eight open blooms with leaves between them, and they are the one part of the design that reaches past the outline of the guitar.

"Layered" is the word that organized the page. Instead of one pattern spread over the whole body, the decoration arrives in bands that arch across it and follow the curve of the wood, so each band can be finished on its own and the sheet comes with natural stopping points built in.

About this patterned guitar coloring page

A pattern drawing usually loses the object inside the decoration, and this one keeps it. The waist, the two bouts and the round sound hole are all still plainly a guitar, so the page works as an instrument and as a pattern at the same time.

The bare neck is what makes that possible. Running an undecorated fretboard up the middle of the sheet gives the eye a clear line to follow, and the bands below it read as decoration on a guitar rather than as a wall of shapes.

Here is the count. Six tuning pegs sit on the headstock in two rows of three, and the fretboard below them is a plain grid of about sixteen frets by six strings. The body is divided into roughly seven bands that arch across it. Reading down from the shoulders: a band of circles and crescents, a band carrying two five pointed stars, a ring of small spirals around the sound hole, a wide band with three more stars and the bridge set into it, then two bands of loops and dots, and at the foot a row of eight open flowers, each with six or seven pointed petals and a collar of leaves. The sound hole is left as a plain circle with the six strings crossing it.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

A page like this one takes a color scheme better than it takes local color, because a guitar decorated this way is already an invention. Picking three or four colors and repeating them band by band down the body holds the design together and keeps the whole sheet readable from across a room.

The stars and the flowers are where the scheme can break. Giving those a color that appears nowhere else lifts them out of the bands around them, and they are spread evenly enough to carry the eye from the shoulders down to the foot.

Want the same treatment on an instrument of your own? Turn a photo into a coloring page and color the guitar you play.

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