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This sports car jump coloring page catches a low wedge car at the top of its flight. It has just left a sandy crest, nose up, all four wheels hanging free, and a storm of dust is still rolling behind it. Rocks fly off the back tires, and its dark shadow waits on the desert floor below. You can almost hear the engine scream.
The car is an original design with no badges, built from flat, angled panels. Those clean shapes make it fun to color, and the scene around it gives you a real chance to work on depth. It takes about forty five minutes.
Check out the car
The hood has two wide stripes that carry on over the roof, along with rows of narrow vents. Yellow headlights wrap around the corners of the nose, and a slatted grille runs below. A tall wing rises on two struts at the back.
On the side you can find a door with a small handle, a dark vent behind it and a pale sill along the bottom. The windows are split into separate panes. Big spoked wheels fill the arches, and each has a brake disc and a center cap.
Around it are flat topped mesas, a big round sun, thin streak clouds and clumps of spiky desert plants. Dust rolls up in fat clouds, and speed lines trail behind the car.
Sports car jump coloring page paint schemes
Facets help here. Each panel faces a slightly different way, so each one catches the light differently. Choose your main color and use three strengths of it. Put the lightest on the hood and roof, a middle tone on the sides, and the darkest under the nose. This one step makes the car look like solid metal.
- Race red with white stripes is the classic look.
- Matte black with a single orange stripe looks mean.
- Electric blue pops hard against the orange sand.
- Bright green and yellow works if you want it loud.
Windows look best with a diagonal streak of white through a pale blue. Keep the tires dark gray, and let the wheels stay bright so the spokes read clearly.
Painting the desert
Heat is the main idea. Use warm oranges and tans for the ground and fade to a paler tone in the distance. Far mesas should be light and a bit purple, while the close ground stays strong and warm. The sky can go from pale yellow near the horizon to a clean blue at the top.
Dust needs a soft touch. Use tan and cream, and blend with light circles. Make the clouds nearest the tires the darkest, and let them fade as they drift back. Run your strokes along the path of the car, up and to the right, to keep the feeling of speed.
The science of staying down
Fast cars spend most of their time trying not to fly. A wing on a car works like an airplane wing used in reverse, so instead of lifting, it presses the car down onto the road. That push is called downforce. It adds load to the tires and gives them more grip in corners.
There is a cost, though. Making downforce also adds drag, so race teams have to balance the two. Grip from air is known as aerodynamic grip, and it is separate from the mechanical grip that comes from weight, tires and suspension. See the downforce article on Wikipedia for diagrams.
Take it further
Build a brochure. Give the car a name, a top speed and a price, then write three lines of ad copy that would make someone want it. Make it as over the top as a real car ad.
Curious about physics? Fold a strip of paper into a small wing and hold it in front of a fan, first curved one way and then the other. Watch which way it pushes.
For a car that stays on the road, print the sports car coloring page. Bikes more your thing? Try the racing motorcycle coloring page.
Questions
Is this car a real model?
No. It is an original design with no badges, so you can name it and pick the paint yourself.
How do I show that the car is in the air?
Leave a clear gap between the wheels and the ground, and make the shadow on the ground dark. That gap does the work.
What is the big wing at the back for?
On real cars, a wing like this pushes the rear down at speed and adds grip. It works like an upside down airplane wing.
