Street Musician With a Guitar Coloring Page

Add this street musician coloring page to a collection and it brings a whole city block with it. A young busker sits cross legged on the pavement, holding an acoustic guitar upright by the neck, with his case open in front of him and five coins already in it. A free printable street musician coloring page for ages 5 to 11. Behind him there are buildings, trees, a low wall and two clouds, so the background is as much of the drawing as the figure.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we entered the concept: "A street musician sitting with an acoustic guitar held upright and an open case on the pavement in front" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds. The city behind him, the brimmed hat and the small tassel hanging off the head of the instrument all came back as the generator filling in what a busker needs around him.

"Held upright" was the phrase that mattered. Drawn in playing position, the body of the instrument covers the player's chest and arms and the figure disappears behind it. Stood on end and held by the neck, the instrument runs up the right side of the sheet and the boy stays completely visible next to it.

Details of this street musician coloring page

The open case is the part of this page that tells the story, and it is drawn as carefully as the figure. The lid is folded toward the viewer so the inside is fully open to the page, which is why the coins are visible at all.

It is also the one place on the sheet with an obvious right answer. Coins are gold or silver, and picking either one gives a child an instant bright spot in the lower half of a drawing that is otherwise all clothing, brick and pavement.

Here is the count. Two clouds sit in the sky, a wide one on the left and a smaller one on the right. Behind the boy stand three buildings: a tall block on the left with six windows in three rows of two, a narrow one beside it, and a lower one on the right with three windows in a row. Two round trees rise between them and a low wall runs across behind his back. He wears a brimmed hat with a band, an open jacket over a plain shirt, and shoes. The instrument he holds has six tuning pegs on its head, frets ruled across the neck, six strings, a round sound hole with a double ring and a bridge with six pins along it. The case in front is open toward the viewer with five oval coins lying inside, a handle at its lower edge and two small feet under the base.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Push the background back and the figure forward. Coloring the buildings, the wall and the pavement in flat grays leaves the boy, the instrument and the case as the only warm things on the page, and the drawing suddenly has a foreground.

The six windows on the tall building are worth a second look. Filling them all one color makes a block; giving a few of them a different shade makes it look like a building where some people are home, and it takes no longer.

Seen a busker on your own street? Turn a photo into a coloring page and color the player you actually stopped for.