Jesus with Swans coloring page

This is where I post my coloring page drawings.

 There are over 3000 coloring pages that you can print to color.

 You do need a printer.

Today's new drawing is of Jesus with some swans. 

I often draw during church on Sunday so I am also posting today's drawing from while I was at church.

Also, there is a portrait drawing of Jesus that I hope to post tomorrow possibly.

Jesus with Swans

The Creator of the Earth was and is Jesus.  He, under the direction of Father in Heaven, created the Earth.  So it makes sense to me that He, Jesus, would love wildlife including swans.  And there were and are swans in Israel where Jesus lived.  Swans sometimes go to the Sea of Galilee and to the Jordan River.  Swans are mentioned in the Bible as an unclean bird, however, it is now generally considered a mistranslation of a word that really means owl.  So I imagined Jesus at a watering trough with a pair of swans.  

Also, remember that Jesus gave Peter a vision of many "unclean" beasts and told him that they were apparently no longer unclean.  Swans are actually hunted.  I don't disapprove of hunting waterfowl but I could never shoot a swan.  I find them too beautiful.  Of course, I find trout to be beautiful fish yet I fish and eat them.  

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the " Birds " button.  Then if you are accessing this page around the first of 2025 then you can find this drawing at the bottom of the Bird section.  You can click on the title and get your printable coloring page.  Have fun coloring this unique coloring page! 

 By the way, I also posted this drawing on the bottom of the General Religious section of the Religious button list. 

Rose Fairy Rositia coloring page

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There are over 3000 free coloring pages... that I have drawn for you to print.

Today's new drawing is of a Rose Fairy.

Rose Fairy Rositia

This is a Rose Fairy.  She is named Rositia.  Roses come in many types.  In Utah, in the Mountain West of North America, we have wild roses in the mountains.  They are a rose that grows on a wild bush.  They are called appropriately, Mountain Roses. Most wild species are from Asia, but there are native roses in Northern Africa and Europe.  Plus roses are cultivated all over the world.  Central Africa and South America are ideal for cultivating roses. In fact, Australia has some varieties of roses that have been developed via selective breeding.  My favorite roses are the red-orange ones and the red-orange-yellow roses.  I love the scent of roses.  And we use rose hips vitamin C.  

Rose Fairies are also found worldwide because roses are raised worldwide OR grow worldwide. Rose Fairies love roses.  They are often smaller than Rositia here.  Remember that Fairies can be pretty much any size from less than a centimeter up to maybe around 213 cm.  So some Rose Faires like to sometimes sleep in roses.  They crawl into the blossom at dusk.  

NOTE:  This drawing or coloring page, is found by clicking on the Fantasy, Myths, and Circus button and then scrolling down to the bottom of the drop-down menu.  The title of this drawing will be near the bottom IF you are accessing this site around the beginning of 2025.  Also, if you are accessing this page later than the first month of 2025 then this drawing's title will be further up the list. Have fun!

New Year 2025 coloring page

  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I am sorry that I have not posted since Christmas Eve.  

I have been busy celebrating the Christmas season.

I have several drawings to post in the coming days. 

Today's new drawing is a traditional one... for today's holiday.

Happy New Year 2025

Feel free to add your own version of "Happy New Year!" to this drawing. 

Of course some of you will be writing this in a language other than English.  

That is one good reason for me to not include a caption on the drawing itself.

NOTE:  This drawing can be found in printable form by clicking on the button labeled "Holidays."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the New Year section.  Have fun coloring and Happy New Year!

Christmas 2024 Coloring Pages

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Today's drawings are all coloring pages that you can print for your kids or you to color. 

The first ones were unpublished until tonight... Christmas Eve 2024.

Angel appears to Family of Shepherds

I got to thinking, what if it was a family of shepherds who were greeted by the angel?  I recently learned that in that day female shepherds were watching out in the fields and caring for the flocks. 

Sugarplum Fairy with Sugarplums

My wife found an ancient recipe for sugarplums AND I take my grandkids to the Nutcracker Ballet every Christmas season.  Hence I decided to draw the Sugarplum Fairy with some sugarplums.  Sugarplums or Sugar Plums are a type of hard spherical candy.  The name came to mean any hard sugary small spherical candy. 

Baby Clarice the Reindeer toy 

This is a drawing of one of my young granddaughter's Christmas toys.  In the wonderful 1964 TV special called Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Clarice is kind and has no problem with Rudolph's unique red nose.  I was born with a birth defect and I have had a trach tube in my throat for much of my life. My friends growing up, Kurt, Mike, Greg, Doug, Richard, Shawn, and Jim never made my tracheotomy and other health issues a problem.  Kudos to them!  Everyone should have treated Rudolph like Clarice treated him.  .   . and like my friends treated me. By the way, I WAS bullied by others. I could always relate to Rudolph.  I loved how he got to be the hero... and get the nice doe too!

Rudolph the Young Reindeer Fawn

This is a more realistic drawing of Rudolph.  However, I don't know of any scientific evidence of reindeer doing bioluminescence with their nose.  But many animals like fireflies do bioluminescence.  So let's cut Rudolph some slack.  After all, if his unique trait IS an advantage then it will be selectively bred into his descendants.  It would not be evolution; it would be man-caused evolution or selective breeding.  I would suspect that by now Santa has several if not all of his reindeer with shiny noses.

NOTE:  To find the printable versions just click on the "Holidays" button and scroll down to the bottom part of the Christmas section.  I have also posted other new drawings for this Christmas season. They are on that list so feel free to print and color them.  By the way, there is no fee and there are no ads on this blog.  I hope you have fun coloring these pictures and remember that our loved ones' presence and our presence are far more important than presents at Christmastime.  

Portrait of Joseph Smith Jr. coloring page

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Today's new drawing celebrates the birthday of 

Joseph Smith Jr. - the Prophet.

Joseph Smith portrait

Today is the 219th birthday of the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr.  He was the prophet of the restoration of the full Gospel of Jesus Christ.  He founded, under the direction of the Lord, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  

The priesthood keys of sealing were given to "Brother Joseph" and because of that we can be sealed to our spouse and children for time and all eternity.  Then after we die our spirits go to the Spirit World.  Eventually, we will be resurrected with perfect immortal bodies.  Then we can live with our spouse and family for time and all eternity with our Heavenly Parents.  

I DID say "Heavenly Parents" because it was revealed to Joseph Smith that we have a Mother in Heaven, along with our Father in Heaven.  In fact, the Spirit World is organized by families.  And if we are sealed and repent of our sins and strive to improve we get to live in the Celestial Kingdom of our God and live together for time and all eternity!!!

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the Religious button.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the Restoration section.  This drawing will also be in Portraits.  Have fun coloring. And Happy Birthday to Joseph Smith, the Prophet!

Battle of Guadalcanal - M3 Stuart Light Tank and USS Salt Lake City coloring pages

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There are over 3000 coloring pages here that I have drawn for you to print and color.

Today there are two new drawings of military vehicles from the Battle of Guadalcanal.

I am currently reading a good historical book about that battle. 

By the way, one of the vehicles is a ship... but first the tank:

M3 Stuart Light Tank

The M3 Stuart light tank was the first light tank to face the enemy during World War II.  It was a tank used by the USA.  This included the US Marines.  They used it in the Battle of Guadalcanal.  It was almost 16 feet long.  It was 7 feet 6 inches wide.  It was 8 feet 5 inches tall.  It had a crew of four including a commander, a gunner, a driver, and an assistant driver. 

The M3 Stuart's main armament was a 37 mm gun.  Its secondary armament was a .30 caliber Browning machine gun.  It also had armor up to 2 inches thick.  It was a light tank so the armament and the thickness of armor were not as robust as a main battle tank.  It weighed 33,500 lbs.  In comparison, the Sherman main battle tank weighed 66,000 lbs. 

USS Salt Lake City Heavy Cruiser (CA-25)

Here we see the USS Salt Lake City beginning a turn to starboard. It is obviously on escort duty. The USS Salt Lake City was a heavy cruiser.  It was laid down in 1927.  The Salt Lake City was sponsored by Helen Budge - the granddaughter of leading Mormon missionary William Budge.

It went on to fight in World War II in the Pacific Theater.  It was nicknamed Swayback Maru.  It received 11 battle stars for its action in the Pacific.  The USS Salt Lake City was involved in the Battle of Guadalcanal and the island hopping campaign.  It was also involved in the efforts to kick the Japanese out of the Aleutian Islands. It was hit several times in surface battles and helped fight off Japanese aerial attacks on the carriers it was protecting. 

After the war, it participated in two atomic bomb tests and failed to sink.  It was finally sunk a couple of years later as a target hull.  It had served a long and glorious life.  More importantly, its crew and officers served aboard her honorably. 

NOTE:  This pair of drawings, in printable form, are found by clicking on the button labeled Vehicles and Military Vehicles.  Then scroll down to the bottom or near the bottom of the list of drawings.  This will work if you are accessing this page in late 2024.  

Two New Sauropod Dinosaurs coloring pages

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This blog has over 3000 of my coloring page drawings.

Today's new drawings are of two newly discovered Sauropod Dinosaurs.

Gnatalie the Sauropod Dinosaur

Ganatalie is the name given to a fairly recently discovered Sauropod dinosaur. Gnatalie was found in Southeastern Utah and was around 75 feet long.  It is related to the well-known Sauropod called Diplodocus.  It was long and slender but still huge.  

The humorous nickname for this dinosaur came from the many gnats that harassed the excavation team the first year of the dig.  I *+assume they brought repellent the other several years.  Yes, it took several years to excavate this huge dinosaur.  The gnats I drew harassing the dinosaur are actually scientifically correct.  Gnats first evolved in the middle Triassic Period millions of years before the first dinosaur appeared.  

 I suspect this dinosaur was found in a bend of a Jurassic river where dino carcasses washed up 250 million years ago.  There were other species besides Gnatalie so it was hard to get the assemblage right. In fact, the Gnatalie fossilized skeleton on display at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History is a composite of two individuals. 

Now, the most unique part is that it is thought that subterranean igneous activity acted on these fossilized bones and turned them green.  So this is a green dinosaur.  At least it's fossilized skeleton is green. 

Qunkasaura

The second dinosaur is another fairly recently discovered Qunkasaura.  It lived in what is now Spain on the shores of what is now the Mediterranean Sea.  Qunkasaura was a type of Titanosaur.  It was 65 feet long and had a weight of around 15 tons.  Several South American Titanosaurs were much bigger.  But 65 feet long is not exactly small.  Titanosaurs were the biggest of the Sauropods.  But Qunkasaura was not among those gigantic Titanosaurs.  

The scientific name is Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra.  The species name is from a character in the classic Spanish novel Don Quixote. The Genus name comes from the name of a nearby village and the Latin word for lizard. 

I should add that the Pterosaurs in these two drawings are types of Rhamphorhinchus.  

NOTE:  These drawings can be found in printable form by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology" and then scrolling down to the bottom of the Mesozoic section.  Have fun coloring the drawings of these two relatively new Sauropod dinos.