Mosaic coloring pages
Big and small pieces fitted together like stained glass. Each picture has a different number of areas and colors, so you can pick anything from easy to detailed.
Pictures to color
About mosaic pictures
Mosaic pictures are built from irregular polygon tiles that fit together with no gaps, a little like a stained-glass window. Each tile has its own number of sides and a slightly different size, and a large circle sits in the middle of the composition, cutting across the tiles to create a second layer of shapes. The palette is kept to eight colors or fewer, so the same numbers appear again and again across the picture.
The math behind the tiles
The layout follows the idea of a Voronoi diagram, named after the mathematician Georgy Voronoy. Scatter a set of points, give each point all the space that is closer to it than to any other point, and you get exactly this kind of patchwork of cells. Similar patterns turn up in nature, in cracked dry mud, giraffe markings and the cells of leaves, which may be why the tiles look organic rather than mechanical.
Glass, stone and color
Real mosaics have been made from small pieces of stone and glass since ancient times, and stained-glass windows separate colored panes with strips of lead. Here the thin edges between areas play that role. Because the tiles are irregular, there is no single right order; many people simply follow one color across the whole picture. If you enjoy calm, repetitive work like this, see calm coloring.
Coloring tips
- 1Tiles inside and outside the big circle can share a number, so watch the light gray-blue tint to catch them all.
- 2Each number covers many tiles; on a touchscreen, zoom in and drag across neighboring tiles to fill matching ones quickly.
- 3Thin slivers where the circle cuts through a tile are easy to miss, so press Hint near the end to find them.