Kurt Alloway portrait

 Today on this, my free coloring pages blog, I am getting very close to my heart.

Kurt Alloway was one of my two best friends in the world. 

He passed away a few days ago. 

Kurt Alloway

Kurt was one of my two very best friends when I was growing up.  He was my friend and my defender.  Although I did not know it, nerdy me, who grew up with a trach tube for much of my youth, was never teased in high school in my hometown.  For a year and a half, my family moved to a nearby town.  I was bullied mercilessly by the "cool" guys who were primarily athletes.  I was born with a birth defect in my trachea and esophagus, so I wasn't allowed to play sports.  I had been put in a PE class with the entire football and basketball team.  They made up mean nicknames and plastered me with snowballs.  They called me nicknames all over the school.  Nowhere was safe.  

But when I moved back to my hometown, I had Kurt and Mike.  They were my team. The three of us were the three musketeers, and it was so nice to be back in my hometown with them.  20 years after graduation, Kurt explained to me that if any kid so much as looked at me sideways, he, Kurt, would pin them to a locker and threaten to pound them if they chose to harass or tease me.  Kurt was not a violent guy, but he was a big cowboy being raised on a ranch.  He never actually pounded anyone.  But he DID give me peace and friendship my last year and a half of high school.  

Kurt even dated my sister and her friends.  Those women remember him as a very nice guy.  Kurt also was incredibly intelligent.  He was an inspiration because he was unfailingly kind.  He understood nature and the West Desert of Utah like no other.  I will miss him. 

NOTE:  To get the printable version of today's drawing, just click on the button that says "People and Portraits."  Then scroll down to this title.  Click on the title to get the printable coloring page.

Adult Alamosaurus and Triceratops

Today's newest coloring page that I drew is in keeping with the theme of

Alamosaurus and Triceratops. In this case, they are full-size adults.  

Adult Alamosaurus and Triceratops

There are known dinosaur tracks in Wyoming that are of a mixed herd. So the idea that two herbivorous dinosaurs may have had a friendly relationship is not unheard of.  I have been to that site.  It is called Red Gulch Dinosaur Pathway, and it is east of Greybull, Wyoming.  

A full-sized adult Triceratops had horns that curved forward - like some modern bulls.  Triceratops was around 30 feet long or over 9 meters long.  Triceratops was almost 10 feet or 3 meters tall.  A full-sized adult would have weighed around 13 tons!

Yet an adult Triceratops would have been dwarfed by an adult Alamosaurus.  A full-size adult Alamosaurs may have weighed up to 80 tons and may have been up to 115 feet long.  That is 35 meters long. Alamosaurus probably was not as tall as a 60-foot-tall Sauroposeidon, but it was definitely very tall.  Maybe 40 to 50 feet or 12-15 meters tall. 

Alamosaurus was the biggest land animal ever to live in what is now North America.  Triceratops was the largest of the Ceratopsian or horned dinosaurs.  Also, they lived at the end of the dinosaur period, called the Cretaceous.  The asteroid or comet most certainly wiped them out, but the huge upping of volcanic activity before the asteroid or comet had already made the Earth a very inhospitable place. 

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology" and then scrolling down to the bottom or near the bottom of the "Mesozoic Life" section.  Have fun coloring this last of the series of Alamosaurus and Triceratops.

Subadult Alamosaurus and Triceratops

 This is my free coloring pages blog.

Today I am continuing with the theme from my last post.

This is a drawing of two subadult dinosaurs.

Subadult Alamosaurus and Triceratops

Yesterday I drew two young juvenile dinosaurs.  These are the same species, only in a more serious drawing.  They are not full-sized adults.  They are subadults. I guess they remained friends as they grew up.  This sometimes does happen with modern animals of different species. 

Alamosaurus has recently been upgraded.  That is, its size is now estimated to be between 90-100 feet long and weighing between 70 and 80 tons.  That is around the size of the biggest known dinosaurs, Argentinosaurus or Patagotitan.  Paleontologists looked inside the bones and discovered that the fossil showed that the Alamosaurus specimen was not fully grown.  

You can tell this is a subadult Triceratops because the horns point out at an angle.  Full-grown adult Triceratops were bigger, and their horns curved and pointed forward.  If these two were full-sized adults, then the Triceratops would be much smaller in proportion to the Alamosaurus. 

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printale form by clicking on the "Paleontology" button.  Then scroll down to the bottom fothe Mesozoic Life section of the list.  Have fun coloring these dinosaurs! 

Juvenile Triceratops and Alamosaurus

 Today's new drawing that I did is of a juvenile nature.

It is fairly simple cartoon drawing for young people (kids) to color and

it is a drawing of two juvenile dinosaurs.

Juvenile Triceratops and Alamosaurus

These are young or juvenile herbivorous dinosaurs.  They are also quadropeds. So they ate plants and walked on four feet.  For years, paleontologists thought that there were no Sauropods in North America during the late Cretaceous.  But the discovery of Amamosaurus changed that.  It was a large Sauropod that was close to 100 feet long or 30 meters long... as an adult.   Large males probably weighed around 88 tons or 80 tonnes (metric tonnes).   It had armored spines along its neck and back.  Alamosaurus was the only Titanosaur ever found in North America.  It is thought that it migrated up from South America.  By the way, Alamosaurus was 36 feet or 11 meters tall.  That is quite impressive. 

Triceratops is more well-known.  It was a 30-foot-long armored Ceratopsian or horned dinosaur.  It was the last and the biggest of the Ceratopsians.  Both these dinos lived in the late Cretaceous of North America.  This fun drawing shows two friends walking together.  The volcano in the background is actually scientifically accurate.  There was a rise in volcanic activity worldwide in the late Cretaceous.

You might have noticed the Pterosaurs in the background.  They are Pteranodons.  They had a wingspan of up to 25 feet wide... or 7.6 meters wide.  Males had a larger crest than the females. 

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology  Then scrolling down to the bottom of the "Mesozoic Life" part of the list.  IF you are accessing this in August of 2025, then this drawing will be at or near the drop-down menu or list of paleontology drawings from the Mesozoic Life section.  Just click on the title and you'll get the printable coloring page. 

Dueling Dragons

Sorry I have not posted in several days.  I got very upset about the things happening in my country. 

Yes, I live in the USA.  The targeting of hard working good people who are immigrants 

seems cruel and rather foolish since we rely on their labor to keep our economy going. 

I also have a problem with my computer so I have to borrow one to post.

Anyway, this is a drawing done by one of my grandnephews.  He is of elementary school age. 

I think he did a great job drawing these two "Dueling Dragons."

Dueling Dragons

As you can probably imagine, dragons don't always get along.  This drawing depicts a dragon duel.  Both dragons try to overwhelm their rival with hot fire.  This fire is from the methane gas that dragons store in their throat in a special organ called the pyroex,  The methane is made in the dragon's digestive system and a tubular organ called the methotubo takes the methane to the pyroex.  When a dragon wants to shoot fire it uses a few special teeth called incinderdons.  These teeth are high in iron so they spark when he dragon snaps its mouth closed.  This ignites the methane as it is projected out of the dragon's mouth.  

I should mention that some dragons make hydrogen gas out of water.  They have both a pyroex organ and a LOX organ.  They expel liquid oxygen along with the hydrogen when they want to shoot or breathe fire.  The liquid oxygen immediately goes into a gas stare and interacts with the hydrogen gas when the incinderdons spark. 

Have fun coloring this awesome drawing!

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the button labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the drop-down menu or list of drawings.  If you are accessing this page in mid to late August 2025 then you will find this drawing at or near the bottom of the list. 

Marcelio the Jedi second fan art drawing

 

This is my free coloring pages blog. 

It has been a while since I posted on this blog. 

Sorry, but my computer got broken. I am now borrowing my wife's computer.

This drawing was misplaced a few months ago, so I drew Marcelio in another picture.

So this is the second drawing of Marcelio the Jedi. But technically it is the first drawn but second posted.

Marcelio the Jedi second picture

As explained above, this is the second drawing of Marcelio the Jedi. It is a fan art drawing.  I am a big Star Wars fan and I have been fascinated by the idea of Jedi Kignts since 1977. 

NOTE: To get to the printable version of this drawing, just click on the "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus" button.  Then scroll down to near the bottom of the list.  New drawings are at the end of the list.