Farm Fairy coloring page

 

Kily the Farm Fairy

Farm Fairies are a type of Fairy that likes to hang out around farms.  They will often secretly help a farmer harvest their crops.  Some mortal farmers actually become friends with the local Farm Fairies.  Because Farm Fairies work hard, sometimes they get a little dirty. But it is all in their efforts to be helpful to the farmer or the farmer and his or her family.  In fact, some Farm Fairies, who are friends with the farmer, will transform to mortal size and work the farmer's fruit and veggie stand.  This explains why so many of the "people" working farm stands are such beautiful people.  This beautiful Farm Fairy, Kily, is one of those, of course, I met her when she was mortal sized.  

Now, in my defense, I want to say that it is impossible, in this medium, to get a perfect likeness in a drawing.  I hope that I at least came close to capturing Kily's beauty.  By the way, I think that many of the most beautiful people, both male and female, are not the ones on TV or in the movies.  Over the years I am amazed at how many nice people I have met who were truly beautiful.   And, of course, true beauty is more than your appearance.  Truly beautiful people are NICE people who are kind to others and seek to make other people's lives better... even if you just meet them at a fruit and vegetable stand.  

Most Fairies are like that... in that they try to enrich the lives of the other Fairies and mortals who they meet.  You probably have met a Fairy (male of female) many times in your life, but they had transformed into mortal size and had internalized their wings before you met them.  You will notice that Kily is dressed in simple clothing. Farm Fairies are very practical and so they tend dress much like mortals.  They don't usually use leaves and plants for their clothing.   

We all need to learn a lesson from Fairies.  We should endeavor to have a positive interaction or interactions,  with people we casually meet... with people we work with... with our friends... and with our families.  

By the way, Kily, the Farm Fairy, was clearly one of these nice Fairies who was helpful as I was buying my favorite food of all time... Corn On The Cob!  ...and we also got a yummy watermelon.  She loaded the heavy watermelon into the car as well.  

Notice that Kily has a flying belt on.  She had flown in from the farm to sell the fruit and corn for her friend, a local farmer.  She flew in at Fairy size and then she transformed into mortal size to sell the produce.  I drew her as she looked as she sat on an ear of corn on the cob before she transformed. 

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the top button labeled:   "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus"... at the top of the page.  

Tree Fairies - Lindy the Oak Fairy coloring page

Lindy the Oak Fairy

(Lindy was the beautiful model for this drawing.)  

About Oak Fairies.  They are about 6 inches tall.  That is 15.24 cm.  This makes Oak Fairies about an inch taller than most Fairies.  Of course, like all Fairies, Oak Fairies can transform themselves to pretty much any size from mortal (human) size to the size of a gnat.  Oak Fairies gather acorns for food for their Fairy village. Fairy Villages are under trees and sometimes partially IN a big tree.  You can see Lindy at one of the hidden entrances to a Fairy village.  

Oak Fairies are also unique in that they like to wear beautiful iridescent cloaks.  These cloaks are kind of a long sweater and they are multicolored because they refract light.  In fact, Oak Fairies are sometimes called "Rainbow Fairies."  Sometimes, on a good harvest day, they will remove their cloak and fill it with acorns.  Oak Fairies are also some of the most athletic of all Fairies.  They can fly or even climb up to the top of an oak tree in just a few seconds.  Often they choose to go to mortal size in order to collect the acorns.  They can collect more in this way.  The female Oak Fairies also are unique because they wear short pants and rarely wear a skirt.  Although they ARE very athletic, Oak Fairies still wear and use a flying belt for flying long distances and for flying at high speed. 

Out here in Utah, we have a native oak tree that is more or less a bush.  It is fairly low to the ground and the "tree" rarely grows taller than 20 feet tall. That is 6 meters.  If you look closely at the necklace that Lindy is wearing you will see that it is an Oak Leaf.  When a young Oak Fairy proves themselves they are awarded the oak leaf pendant that they wear always.  

I apologize that you can not see more of Lindy's beautiful wings, but she was just exiting the door to the Oak Tree entrance to her village.  So I draw what I see.  But, I should add, in my defense, that a quick drawing like this can not capture the true beauty of lovely Fairy... or human for that matter.  AND... true beauty is more than just appearance.  Lindy is a lovely Fairy that my wife and I casually met and she was very helpful and friendly to us and so she has true inward beauty as well as striking external beauty. We were hiking in the Utah mountains and we had not brought along enough water.  Lindy was secretly shadowing us and made herself known to us.  She sensed that we could be trusted and she took us over to a nearby tree or Gambel's Oak.  She went inside and came out with water for us to fill our water bottles.  This drawing is based on our last view of her as she was standing at the hidden entrance to her village.  

Artist Note:   This is the first of a series of Tree Fairy drawings. 

These are inspired by the class I took years ago

at Utah Valley University.  The class was Field Botany. 

Kudos to my awesome Botany professor.  She was

absolutely amazing!  

Nearly every class period we were out in the mountains,

or out in the desert valleys, or hiking a canyon,

or at the edge of the Bonneville Salt Flats.  

We learned to identify 50 different woody plants 

that are native to Utah and several more

non-native species.  It was my favorite 

college class of all time!  I will 

endeavor to draw all the leaves and fruit of

each plant accurately.  

You will find this drawing, 

in printable form, 

 by clicking on the button 

up top labeled 

Fantasy, Myths, and Circus. 

Snail Fairy coloring page

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Snail Fairy

Snail Fairies are one of the smallest Fairies.  (But remember that Faires can magically change size.)

Snail fairies are friendly with gastropods.  Snails and slugs are gastropods.  They are invertebrate animals and tend to be quite small.  

I guess I should say that Snail Fairies PREFER to stay very small. . . especially when they are outdoors.  Snail Fairies still usually live in Fairy villages, however they change or minimize their size when they leave those underground hidden villages.  Snails are nocturnal animals so the Snail Fairies have big eyes to be able to see well at night.  

NOTE:  This new drawing will be found, in printable form, by clicking on the top button labled 

Fantasy, Myths and Circus.  However, if you can capture the drawing on this page and move it to another program. . . like Microsoft Word... and THEN print it, you will get a better quality picture. 

Carcharodontosaurus, Coloborhynchus, and Spinosaurus - - Animals of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa coloring pages

 

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 is a 

Carcharodontosaurus

 and a 

Pterosaur 

called 

Coloborhynchus.

Both animals 

are from 

North Africa. 

Carcarodontosaurus & Coloborhynchus near a River

Carcorodontosaurus and Coloborhynchus were animals that lived in the Mid-Cretaceous in what is now North Africa.  If you look in the background you will see a Spinosaurus.  They lived at the same time in the same place.  But Charcarodontosaurus was a land predator and Spinosaurus was primarily a water or river predator.  They probably only got in fights over food when there was a draught or something that interfered with the Spinosaur's ability to catch fish.  By the way, the name Carcharodontosaurus means "Shark Tooth."  The paleontologist that named this dinosaur thought its teeth looked a lot like shark teeth. 

The Pterosaur is a Coloborhynchus.  It was a large Pterosaur that ate fish.  It had a wingspan of up to 18 feet or about 5.4 meters.  There was more than one species of this type of large Pterosaur. This Genus was from the Ornithochirus group of Pterosaurs. 

NOTE:  This drawing, along with some other older ones below, are found, in printable form, by clicking on the Paleontology button up at the top of the page.  Scroll to the bottom of the list of drawings for the new drawing.  New drawings are always on the bottom of the list. 

Carcharodontosaurus

(This is an older drawing and looking at it now, 

I think I made the snout too robust and not long enough.

But I DO think the pattern of spots looks pretty cool!)

Spinosaurus with Spots

(This is another older drawing, but it is 

actually thought to be very

accurate for what a Spinosaurus looked like. 

 They lived much like very large crocodiles.

Spinosaurus was around 55 feet or about 17 meters long,

but it was built for fishing.)

Dragons and 3 Headed Dragon coloring pages

 

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3 Headed Dragon

(new drawing)

Dragons are absolutely amazing creatures.  They love to horde gold, silver, and gems.  They are

legendary for stealing and then protecting their treasure.  Dragons can go for years without eating.  

They go into a semi-hibernation where they use very little energy for a long period of time.  If you are 

familiar with the Lord of the Rings books and movies you know that Smaug the dragon was inactive

for around 100 years.  

Three-headed dragons are even a more unique animal than a regular dragon.  3 headed dragons will 

sometimes get along fine but other times the multiple heads will get at odds with each other and 

disagree on things.  This can lead to them attacking each other and that usually leads to a premature 

death.  A regular dragon will live for hundreds of years.  A 3 headed dragon often does not make it past

100 years old.  You will probably notice that the three heads do not match.  This is how 3 Headed 

Dragons are.  They different heads always look different and they often don't get along. 

Some Fairies are known as Dragon Faires and they are Dragon tames.  Some of the older drawings 

below include some of these Dragon Taming Fairies.  There are also Wizards who train Dragons. 

NOTE:  This was drawn in a moving car when I was riding in the passenger seat.  I could not do any 

erasing due to drawing in pen.  I had just had a really rough root canal so I had been put on pain

medicine so this may not be my best work... but drawing is often what I do when I am in pain.  

So I drew this in the moving car.  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the 

"Fantasy, Myths, and Circus" button up top and then scrolling down.  I will include older drawings of

 dragons that I have done in the past. 

Dragon Mates flying over a Castle

Dragon Fairy charms a Dragon

Dragon Female flying over a Castle

Dragon escorted by Fairies

Dragon flying over Forest

Dragon Trainer  Wizard with Dragon

Barefoot Elves coloring pages

 

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Today's new drawing is 

a family of Barefoot Elves.

Please scroll down to see the drawing.

I did not meet the father, 

but I DID meet the mother of a Barefoot Elf Family...

at the edge of a river near some trees near 

Logan Utah.  The family were

nice and friendly.  The children of 

this Barefoot Elf Family 

played with my grandkids 

and the Barefoot Elves were

very kind and friendly.  

There was a baby also, but

I did not include the baby in this drawing.

Barefoot Elves Family

I met this family, as I already stated, and decided to draw them. Barefoot Elves are descended from the union or marriage of Brimley and Arwina thousands of years ago.  Brimley was an early Hobbit... or you could say Protohobbit.  Arwina was an Elf Princess.  Their children were raised in the Elf community of Rivendell and so they married Elves.  Through the years these descendants came to be known as Barefoot Elves.  They are incredibly sure-footed and are adept at keeping themselves hidden.  The Barefoot Elves tend to have slightly shorter legs than other Elves.   Most of the Barefoot Elves eventually moved to Mirkwood and lived among the Wood Elves.  So now most of the Barefoot Elves are considered a type of Wood Elf.  

In the days of the Orc Wars, the Barefoot Elves were used as scouts.  Nowadays the Barefoot Elves are still lookouts near Elf villages.  If you have never seen an Elf it is probably because Barefoot Elves spotted you first and sounded the alarm. In our modern times, which is the Age of Men, Elves live underground and inside large trees and they prefer to remain concealed from most mortals.  However, the Barefoot Elves tend to live in concealed treehouses in the branches of trees.  

The Barefoot Elves wear only light armor and rarely wear shoes.  They have the tough Hobbit-like feet, yet their feet are not slightly oversized nor furry like a Hobbit's foot.  Even at a young age, these Barefoot Elves train with their parents for lookout duty.  

Barefoot Elves have retained much of the fun-loving nature of their Hobbit ancestors.  They can use a concealment charm so we mortals can not see their pointed ears so they often will go to mortal or human parks and even our towns to live among us.  They especially like our parks and playgrounds. We don't see them as anything other than humans.  Most of these mortal dwelling Barefoot Elves only stay among us part-time.  They like to return to the peace of the Elf Villages.  

NOTE:  To print these drawings just click on the "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus" button up top.  Then scroll down to the bottom for the new drawings.  I want to let you know also, that the "printable" pages have to be scanned in PDF files and they are not as good as the PNG picture on this main blog page.  SOOOOOO.... you might want to use a snipping tool to copy the picture from this main blog page and paste it into Microsoft Word or somewhere and print it from there.  You will get a better drawing to color. Have fun coloring!  Below is another Barefoot Elf that I drew a few weeks ago. 

Barefoot She-Elf with Spear

Gigantosaurus and Giganotosaurus (English) coloring pages

 

Today's post is about the often confused dinosaurs:  Gigantosaurus and Giganotosaurus.  Some people mispronounce the name: Giganotosaurus as Gigantosaurus.  (The two names really do look a lot alike.) I hope to clear things up with today's post.  

The first drawing is the original Gigantosaurus.  This was a medium-sized Sauropod from England that was found over a hundred and fifty years ago.  Paleontologists only found a few bones and those bones have since been attributed to being from a previously named dinosaur.  In any case... with so few bones Gigantosuarus was still quite large.  The full scientific name is Gigantosaurus megolonyx.  

It was either a type of Brachiosuur or a type of Titanosaur.  But it was still bigger than several elephants.  The flying animal, in the drawing, is a member of the Rhamphorichid Pterosaurs.  As you can see from the drawing, Gigantosaurs was a Sauropod or four-legged big herbivore that only ate plants.  In this drawing, Gigantosaurus is eating leaves from a Cycad Tree.  I decided to give the dinosaur a pattern similar to a modern Giraffe.  Afterall, Brachiosaurs were the Giraffes of the Mesozoic Era.  

Gigantosaurus (the original)

(new drawing)

If you have ever watched the kid's show Gigantosaurus then you will see a very different type of dinosaur.  Gigantosaurus is a French-made pre-school series that is now playing on Netflix.  I have been watching it with my grandkids.  It is SO well done.  I am very impressed with this TV show.  The little dinosaurs are juveniles who love science etc.  One of them is a little female Ankylosaur who REALLY loves science.  In one episode she was looking at a comet with a telescope she had made.  It was really cute and now my three-year-old grandson keeps wanting to look at the NEOWISE comet through my telescope.  Today we looked at the moon with my telescope.  By the way, on American television, the Gigantosaurus series is in English.  I highly recommend this TV show! And this is coming from a retired Science Teacher.  I like how both boys and girls (boy and girl dinosaurs) are trying to solve problems.  And it is cool how the little girl Ankylosaur loves science so much.  She even uses science to solve problems.  

In the Gigantosaurus series, the Gigantosaurs is a Theropod or meat-eating dinosaur.  (Although he also seems to eat coconuts in the show... and he never eats the kid dinosaurs either.)  I drew a similar cartoon fan art drawing of this Gigantosaurus, although I told my grandkids that the Gigantosaurus on the show was really a Giganotosaurus.  My drawings are cartoon drawings that are similar (but not exactly the same) as the Gigantosaurus on the show.  

Gigantosaurus cartoon

(new drawing)

Gigantosaurus on the Prowl cartoon

Since the dinosaur from the show REALLY looks more like a Giganotosaurus I drew that too.  Below is a new drawing of the South American dinosaur called Giganotosaurus.  It was a huge carnivore... it ate meat.  It was 43 feet long and had knife-like teeth that could bite slices of meat out of the side or leg of a huge Titanosaur Sauropods like Argentinosaurs or Patagotitan. I also added a drawing or two from older posts... of Giganotosaurus.  By the way, T. rex and Giganotosaurus never met.  T. rex lived several million years after... and they lived on different continents.  T. rex was in North America.  Giganotosaurus was in South America.   But if they DID meet, I would think that T. rex had the advantage, because T. rex had a much more powerful bite.  (T. rex jaws could crush  bone... not just slice meat.)  T. rex may have been slightly shorter in length but possibly a bit heavier than Giganotosaurus.  By the way, the Pterosaur or flying reptile is Argentinadraco.  The name means "Argentina Dragon."  It was a Pterosaur from Argentina.  The two animals are near an erupting volcano.  There WAS a lot of volcanic eruptions in Argentina at the time these two animals lived. The Argentinadraco had an unusual lower jaw and it may have had a pouch for holding fish that it caught. 

NOTE:  These new drawings are found, in printable form, by clicking on the button at the top of the page that is labeled:  Paleontology.  You will need to scroll down to get to the new drawings.  The new drawings are at the bottom of the list.  Again, click on. . . . . . Paleontology

Giganotosaurus and Argentinadraco

(new drawing)

Giganotosaurus by a River

(older drawing)

Giganotosaurus on the Prowl

(older drawing)

(Notice the prey species... the gigantic Argentinosaurs in the background.)

Giganotosaurus Skull

(older drawing)