Monorail Gliding Above Coloring Page

Monorail Gliding Above Coloring Page, perfect for a child who likes vehicles but has colored enough steam engines. Monorail coloring pages are rare, and this one splits the sheet cleanly in two: the train rides an elevated beam across the upper third on two wide columns, and a quiet city street runs along the bottom with shops, trees and a parked car. The two halves can be colored on different days if a child loses interest, which is not true of a page built around one big subject. Free letter size PDF.

How we made this coloring page

The concept we entered on Colorin AI was: "A smooth monorail train gliding on a single elevated rail high across the page, with a small city street far below." The printable came back in seconds.

"Far below" is the phrase that opened the composition. A monorail asked for with a city behind it comes back with the buildings crowding the train at the same height, and the whole point of a monorail, which is that it runs above everything, disappears. Putting the street far below left a wide band of empty sky in the middle, and that emptiness is what makes the train look elevated.

Why this monorail coloring page is special

What sets this apart is how smooth the train is. There are no wheels, no funnel, no grille, just a long rounded body and a row of windows, which is exactly what a monorail looks like and almost never what a coloring page gives you.

That smoothness makes it a good page for practicing an even fill. A large unbroken shape shows every stroke, so it teaches steady pressure in a way that a busy drawing never can.

The count: the train body runs in three sections joined by two concertina links, carrying about twelve rectangular windows in a continuous row plus one large curved windshield and two oval lamps at the nose. It rides a beam supported by two wide columns, each column narrowing to three thin legs. Three clouds float in the sky, two above the beam and one below it. On the street stand a shop with an awning of about ten scalloped panels, a two story building with two four pane windows, a three story building with four windows, two full trees drawn as clusters of rounded lobes, and one small rounded car with two wheels parked at the curb. The sidewalk runs the full width of the page below them, ruled into paving joints at regular intervals.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Color the train in one flat tone from nose to tail and let the twelve windows stay white. A monorail is one continuous object, and breaking it into colored sections makes it look like carriages, which is precisely what it is not.

Give the street a warmer color family than the sky. Warm below and cool above is the oldest way of pushing a background back, and here it puts real air between the beam and the shopfronts.

The awning is the one striped object on the page. Alternating its ten panels in two colors makes the storefront the anchor of the lower half, which the street needs since nothing else down there is large.