F-16 in Battle coloring page

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Today's new drawing is of an F-16 Fighting Falcon.

F-16 Fighting Falcon in Combat

This was a quick drawing that I did for my grandson. He added the enemy jets and the Sidewinder Missile fired from the F-16.  The details of the jet are not extensive.  I drew this from memory during church, if you can believe that. It was a quick drawing. If you want to add exhaust coming from the back of the F-16, that would make sense.  I should tell you that this is my absolute favorite fighter jet. 

The F-16 is a workhorse jet. It can be used for both air-to-air combat and air-to-ground attack. It is smaller than many other jets, and it is also less expensive.  The F-16 can fly at a speed of MACH 2 or about 1500 mph. It has a ceiling of 50,000 feet. It has a wingspan of 32 feet and a length of 49.5 feet. 

For armament, the F-16 can carry a lot of different weapons, including air-to-ground bombs or missiles and air-to-air missiles. It can carry an electronic warfare pod as well. It can carry a payload of up to 12,000 lbs. That is 5443 kg. It also has a 20 mm rotating Vulcan cannon for short-range. This is like a modern Gatling gun.

The F-16 has a maximum ferry range of 2000 miles. It has a combat range of up to 500 miles, depending on the payload. That works out to about 805 km. A heavy load of armament would lead to a combat range of more like 340 miles or 547 km. 

There are more than 4600 F-16s that have been produced since they first appeared in 1976.  Right now, there are an estimated 2400 to 2600 still in service in several different countries.  It is the most common fighter and even the most common fixed-wing military aircraft in the world at present. New ones are still being produced with many upgrades. 

NOTE: This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Vehicles and Military Vehicles." Then scroll down to the bottom of the list. New drawings are found at the bottom of the list. 

King Benjamin coloring pages

This is my free coloring pages blog. 

There are over 3000 drawings or coloring pages here.

I drew all but a few that were drawn by a grandniece and grandnephew. 

Today's new drawing is of King Benjamin.

King Benjamin teaching from His Tower

King Benjamin was a great king in Ancient America. When he was getting older, he had a tower built so that he could teach his people. He first announced his successor, his son Mosiah. Then King Benjamin taught his people about Jesus and how Jesus would have us treat each other. 

King Benjamin especially talked about how we should treat the poor. We should clothe them, feed them, and give them shelter. If we say in our hearts, "They brought this on themselves, so they deserve their bad situation," then WE are under condemnation.  

Jesus also taught that same doctrine. We are supposed to care for and administer to the poor, sick, imprisoned, and the afflicted, not abandon them. 

King Benjamin had called his people together to give them a final message. They came in families with tents, and each family had their own tent so they could hear him speaking, and presumably the family could stay out of the sun. You can read about King Benjamin in The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Christ. Look in the first chapters of the book of Mosiah. 

NOTE: This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Religious." Then scroll down to the bottom of the "Restoration" section of the lists. Below is an older drawing of King Benjamin.  Here he is on a stone tower. Have fun coloring these drawings!

King Benjamin teaching His People

 

Allosaurus coloring pages

 Here you will find over 3000 free-to-print coloring pages.

Today's free drawings are of Allosaurus jimmadseni. 

Juvenile Allosaurus jimmadseni

Allosaurus jimmadseni was a large Theropod predator of the Jurassic Period.  Allosaurus fragilis grew up to 40 feet long, or 12 meters long, and weighed up to 4 tons.  It was one of the apex predators of the age. Allosaurus jimmadseni was a different species from the more well-known Allosaurus fragilis. Allosaurus jimmadseni lived millions of years before Allosaurus fragilis. Allosaurus jimmadseni was able to grow up to 33feet long or 10 meters long. It could weigh up to 2.5 tons or 2300 kg. 

Allosaurus jimmadseni had a crest above and in front of each eye.  It had a shorter crest on its snout as well. It most probably was the ancestor of the later Allosaurs, like Allosaurus fragilis.

Allosaurus fragilis Mother and Chick at an Overlook

In this drawing we see a mother Allosaurus fragilis with her chick at a valley overlook. Remember that an adult Allosaurus fragilis could grow to be 40 feet long. Allosaurus fragilis lived later than its smaller probable ancestor, Allosaurus jimmadseni.

NOTE: To find the printable version of these drawings, just click on the button labeled "Paleontology." Then scroll down to the bottom of the Mesozoic Life section. Click on the title and you'll get the drawing of your choice in printable form. Have fun coloring Allosaurus!

Jesus Praying at the Temple in Jerusalem coloring page

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If you are not new to my blog, welcome back!

Today, the new coloring page drawing is of Jesus.

I often draw Jesus during church on Sundays. 

Jesus praying at the Temple in Jerusalem

Notice that Jesus has on a prayer shawl in this drawing. In this drawing, I imagined Jesus at the Temple early in the morning, so no one was in sight but Him.  He liked solitude sometimes.  He used time away to commune with His Father... our Father in Heaven as well.  

You see, Jesus was the Only Begotten Son of God.  We ALL are spirit children of our Heavenly Parents. But Jesus was also the Son of God on Earth.  We were all with Jesus in our premortal life. We were there with our Heavenly Parents and everyone who has ever been, or is now on the Earth, or will be on the Earth. Of course, we were there as spirit children of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother.  

Jesus volunteered to be our Savior. He paid the eternal price for our sins so that we can repent and return to live with our Heavenly Family... and our formerly mortal family.  Everything in Heaven revolves around Family.  Things are even organized by Family.  

We have to have Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and we need to know how to repent. And of course, we all sin and we all need to repent and strive to do better. Jesus was the only person ever to live on Earth who never needed to repent. 

I should mention that I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  We have that doctrine of a premortal life where we were all there with Jesus, who was our eldest Spirit Brother... along with our Heavenly Parents and everyone else.

NOTE: This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Religious." Then scroll down to the bottom of the "New Testament" pages. Click on the title to get the printable coloring page. Have fun coloring! 

 

American Crow coloring page

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There are over 3000 free-to-print coloring pages here. 

Today I am posting a drawing I did of an American Crow.

American Crow

This crow is sitting on a branch of an elm tree. You can tell because the serrated leaves are asymmetrical. Crows are one of the most intelligent animals out there.  They have a high brain-to-body ratio. They use tools to get food and remember where they put the tools. They can recognize human faces and even remember specific humans. They are a social bird and quite successful. 

NOTE: This coloring page, in printable form, is found by clicking on the "Birds" button and scrolling down to the bottom of the list. New drawings are at the bottom of the list. 

Happy Veteran's Day 2025

 Today is Veterans' Day in the USA

So I really want to say,

Thank you to those who had the nerve

To defend our country and serve

The drawing below is not a new drawing. It is a drawing of my father, who was a B-24 pilot in World War II. He enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed.  His two best friends enlisted with him. HE returned to marry, attend Medical School, and have a bunch of kids, including me. His two friends did not survive their time in the Army Air Corps. 

Dad never talked much about the war.  He used to say that while on his bombing missions, he felt like he should be teaching those kids down there the Gospel of Jesus Christ instead of having to bomb them. His missions were against transportation, like bridges and railroads. Yet he served his country and did what he had to do to eradicate violent and aggressive fascism in Europe. Sadly, it appears to me that fascism is trying to raise its ugly head here in the USA. That is so sad and so ironic. 

Lt. Lyman and B-24

NOTE: This drawing in printable form is found in the "People and Portraits section, so click on that button and look for this title.  I'm sorry I did not post this earlier. 

Talos sampsoni a New Raptor from Utah coloring page

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I have drawn and posted over 3000 pictures for you to print and color.

Today's new drawing is of a newly discovered raptor dinosaur

named Talos samsoni. 

Talos sampsoni 

Talos samsoni was a raptor dinosaur that lived in what is now Southern Utah. It was around 6 f 1/2eet long or bout meters long. It weighed about 84 lbs or a mass of 38 kg. It had killer sickle claws - one on each foot. It had feathers and probably was a pack hunter. It lived 78 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. By the way, this dinosaur was around a yard or just under a meter high.  

I got to meet the Paleontologist who named Talos.  She is Dr. Lindsay Zanno. She is a professor at North Carolina State University and Head of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science.  She is an expert in Theropod dinosaurs.  In fact, if you read my last post, she was on the team of Paleontologists who identified Nanotyrannus as a true separate species from T. rex.  Dr. Zanno got her master's and her PhD from the University of Utah. I expect that is where she was taught by Dr. Scott Sampson.  So that is why Talos has the species name of samsoni. Dr. Sampson was also involved in the discovery of Talos samsoni.

The Pterosaur is similar to a Cryodrakon. An ulna or arm bone (wing bone) of a fairly large Pterosaur has been found in the same part of Southern Utah.  This flying reptile or Pterosaur was NOT a dinosaur.  But it/they lived with the dinosaurs - or at least they lived at the same time. A Cryodrakon had a wingspan of 16 feet or 5 meters. However, there is new evidence that the original fossils were of subadults.  It may be that Cryodrakon was as big as Quetzalcoatlus, with a wingspan of 33 feet or 10 meters.  In any case, there WAS a large Pterosaur living in what is now the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument - where Talos was found. 

NOTE: This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology." Then scroll down to the bottom of the "Mesozoic Life" section of the drop-down menu. Have fun coloring this relatively newly discovered raptor dinosaur!