Cat Coloring Pages

Cat Coloring Pages:

I think its great when people want to find cat coloring pages for their children, or even the young at heart. It inspires them, and as an artist myself. I remember what it was like to color in a coloring-in book.

It is more important than you think.  You, as a youngster, start to learn limitations and disciplines.

 For example:

When a child starts to color inn at an early age. you see that their lines of color stray outside the lines of the subject.  This is the young body learning to control their movements, and as they color in more and more. You will find that the stray lines that have gone outside the subject they are coloring in, become less and less apparent.

It might not seem like much at the time.......  though a very important development is happening. The child is developing control of their movements and becoming more precise with their arm and hand movements go.

When coloring in, the sweeping of fast movements of the coloring in pencil, texter, or even paint brush, becomes more of a challenge.

Than if you asked your child to just draw a straight line, what would you see?

 You will see them concentrate and move their pencil very slowly, so to not make the pencil line stray too much.

Coloring in, encourages them to want to color at subject on paper quicker, so their brain is in training mode, in a way. Becoming more disciplined and precise in knowing, their what restrictions there should be on paper. Of course that is when you teach them to color in within the lines......

Working with color:

I know from my early days, lets see thinking hard here, few years ago now........   When I was coloring in, I saw objects through the eyes of a child, that meant if a cat was brown in color, than that is exactly the color you would do. Filling in the cat all brown. The eyes would be another color. No deviations- straight colures. (Through the eyes of a child)

As we grow and look at nature we see, that color is made up of many different colures, a black color has a certain sheen of blue about it. Have good look next time you see a painting or just about anything I guess...

What I am trying to say, is that as the child grows, they see things in a more complex manner, (as seen through their art) so coloring in is important, so encourage your child to do more.

As it promotes:

• decision making

• discipline

• muscle movements

• coordination

All these elements in just coloring in is developing your child in so many other areas in their lives now.

They will:

• Improve their writing more quickly

• Balancing will improve

• and Creativity will also develop

The coloring in of art for youngsters has been around for so long, and I encourage you to get your children to do it.

Get them away from the TV, the computer even, (as I know they start on the computer really early these days) and go back to basics to build precision, and what I have discussed in my points above, helping them in their every day activities.

I am going to get some cat coloring pages in here for you to print out. Though I think you should watch your child's abilities grow as you get then to keep on coloring in.

Yours in the arts

Andrea