Brimstone Butterfly Coloring Page — Easy

This sunshine-bright Brimstone Butterfly Coloring Page features the iconic butter-yellow wings of the butterfly that may have given all butterflies their name — in a simple, accessible outline with clear wing shapes perfect for beginners and children. Part of our free butterfly coloring pages collection.

The brimstone is widely believed to be the origin of the word "butterfly" — its bright sulphur-yellow wings were described as "butter-coloured" in early English. It is also one of the longest-lived European butterflies, surviving as an adult for up to eleven months, overwintering among ivy leaves whose colour its wing shape mimics almost perfectly.

The brimstone's pure butter-yellow colour deserves a warm, sunny palette — use a lemon-to-primrose gradient, deeper at the wing centre and paling to cream at the edges. The distinctive raised vein pattern can be suggested with fine pale yellow-green lines. Male wings are richer yellow; female wings are paler, tending toward a soft white-green.

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