Free Woman in Striped Hat Coloring Page

This coloring page is inspired by Henri Matisse’s outrageous "Woman with a Hat." The portrait shows Amélie with her face abstracted by heavy lids and a full mouth; the straw hat is wide with bold stripes and a simple choker around her neck. The color palette was raw Fauvism that shocked the patrons of the 1905 Salon, which makes it a great choice for this coloring book. You will want to highlight the angle lines, elusive spatial flattening, pattern clashes, and emotional directness for an exhilarating shade. This coloring page is a free printable, so feel free to go wild with non-natural colors as a celebration of color’s emotional power with the materials in the course. Perfect for aspiring colorists of the Fauvism school of painting or for an exercise in contemporary portraiture.