Starship Enterprise

Star Ship Enterprise

This is a drawing of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek The Next Generation.  Well, it is MY version of the ship.  It is not exact so maybe it is a later version of the Enterprise.  In Star Trek the original series the ship had the code NCC 1701.   In Star Trek The Next Generation it was
NCC 1701 D.  So maybe this is NCC 1701 F or NCC 1701 G .   

I think that Star Trek was and is an amazing franchise.  It featured humans from many races as crew members and as officers.  It had aliens who also were crew members and everyone was viewed as equals.  I read that Nichelle Nichols who played Lt. Uhura wanted to quit but Martin Luther King Jr. talked he out of it.  He said that Star Trek was the only show he let his kids stay up late to watch.  He told Nichelle that it featured her as Uhura who was black and an officer.  She was an important role model.  Whoopi Goldberg, who later would be on Star Trek TNG...was a little girl when she saw Lt. Uhura on Star Trek.  She ran to her mom saying, "Mamma Mamma, there is a black woman on TV and she aint no maid!" 

One of the amazing things about Star Trek is how it predicted some technologies.  Captain Kirk sings off on a tablet computer.  Captain Picard reads novels on a tablet as well.  Those scenes were shot many years before a tablet  computer existed.  Now with talking computer access like Siri and Alexa we live in a world that connects us to the computer in one way you could communicate with the computer on Federation Starships...by talking to it and it talking back to you.  Also, some of the first cell phones were designed by Star Trek fan engineers.  They insisted on a cell phone design that flipped open like a communicator from the original Star Trek series. 

The two smaller engine like things that you see on the Star Ships from the Star Trek series are Warp Nacelles or the warp engines.  The theory...that IS something scientists are working on....is that if you can warp space in front of you you can travel faster than light.  This has also been referred to as folding space in the Dune series of books.  Maybe one day we WILL be able to travel at warp speed.  Right now if you accelerated to just under the speed of light in an interstellar ship and went to the nearest star other than the sun.  By the time you got back 80 years would have gone by.  The crew of the ship would only have aged 5 or 6 years because of how time slows down when you are traveling fast like that.  With warp drive you could travel that distance in a few hours instead of 80 years. 

Star Trek also has a message of unity.  The people of Earth learn to get along.  People are still proud of their culture they were raised in, but they are not bigoted.  Of course in  Star Trek some species from other planets are bigoted against species from different planets.  But the message is bigotry is wrong. 

Technology is used for  good much of the time in Star Trek.  Of course often they are fighting against those who want to use tech for bad purposes.

Fairy named Celest

Fairy named Celest

I imagined that this fairy has used magic to make her near  human sized.  She is a forest fairy.  Celest is a real person.  She posed for a photograph so I could do this drawing.  I met her at a family wedding.  She is the bride's best friend.  She is a lovely African American.  I drew her as a fairy, but in a coloring page quality of drawing it is difficult to capture the beauty of a real person.  It kind of bothers me how you rarely see fairies drawn with races other than white. I am white...mostly.  But, I am also part Native American.  In fact, I read somewhere that around 80% of Americans are part native American.  To me it is great to know about your family history.  For us Americans it usually shows how diverse we are.  My wife found out from her DNA testing that she is like half German.  She did not know this.  She also found out that she is 5% Irish and around 25% Norwegian, some Swedish and some English.  The Irish genes are probably because Vikings used to kidnap people from Ireland.  I am part Iroquois Native American, English, Spanish, Danish, and Welch plus to my surprise I am a small percent Russian.  In my opinion we should celebrate our diversity! 

In the Fablehaven book series the Fairies are from different parts of the world and so they are made up of fairies from Europe, Africa, Latin America, Native American, Arabian, etc. ancestry.  That makes sense to me.  Many cultures around the world have stories of fairies and or little people.  So it makes sense that not all fairies would be only of European ancestry.

Memorial Day 2018

In honor of our veterans who have served our country I am posting some new and some older drawings of military aircraft and land vehicles.   Thank you to all those who have served and thank you also to their families who have made so many sacrifices.  Also, thank you to the civilian workers who support the soldiers.  

Deuce and a Half

2.5 Ton Military Truck called a Deuce and a Half

The military uses lots of trucks.  This is a large 5 ton truck.  My mother drove a truck during World War II.  She drove soldiers around the Salt Lake City area.  So, she served during World War II but not in combat.

B-24J Liberator

(new drawing)

My father served in combat.  He was a bomber pilot.  He flew a B-24J  Liberator four engine bomber.  On the way to England he crashed in Newfoundland.  I am very grateful that he was not injured or killed or I may not be here right now.  After the war I think he felt bad about having to bomb people so he became a doctor and delivered something like 4,000 babies and saved many lives as a small town surgeon and general practitioner physician.  More of B-24 series of planes were built than any other plane in World War II.,,over 19,000.   It was a long range bomber and could fly to targets 1,600 miles away.  It could carry over 5,000 lbs of bombs on high altitude missions.  It was used by several allied countries.  As you can see it had twin rudders and its engines were in FRONT of the wing instead of under the wing.

  My father was in command of a squadron of B-24 J bombers in 1945.  He felt the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit talk to him and tell him to spread the planes out as they approached a \bank of clouds.  He gave the order and all planed emerged from the \other side of the cloud with no problems.  Dad was reprimanded for this.  But he survived the war.  A friend of his was killed in another squadron when his plane was ran into by another bomber as they flew into some clouds.  So, it pays to listen to the Spirit.  In fact, because he would not go out and carouse and get drunk with the other pilots (Dad was an active Mormon)...because he would not party Dad's pilot nickname was "Preacher."   One last thing. . . Dad's two best friends went to enlist with him and volunteer as pilots on the same day. . . the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed.  Both of those friends died in crashes during training in four engine bombers.  They gave their lives to serve their country. 

Military Fort and M-60 Tank

(new drawing)

My grandnephew made a fort out of a cardboard box and he had me draw it.  So here it is.  The tank is a M-60 Patton Battle Tank.  The real Patton tanks were named after the World War II US General George Patton.  But Patton was never in one of these tanks.  They came into operation in 1960 about 15 years after General Patton died.   The tank in the drawing is drawn from my young grandnephew's  toy tank.  He also had me make soldiers out of small plastic cups.  

F-16 Fighter Bomber

Recently has begun to be phased out of US Military use.  This is my favorite jet. 

(drawing from previous post)

F-4F Fighter

Mostly carrier based and used during World War II . . . mostly in the Pacific Theater

(drawing from previous post)

David and Goliath before the battle

(drawing from previous post)

David and Goliath

If you think about it,  David was a veteran. 

 He served the army of Israel when he killed the giant and  for years after he killed Goliath.
  (drawing from previous post)

Star Spangled Banner inspiration
(drawing from previous post)

AGAIN:  THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR VETERANS
WHO SACRIFICED TO MAKE OUR WORLD A BETTER PLACE!

Jesus teaches about Hyppcrosy

Jesus teaches about Hypocrisy

Do you remember Jesus teaching a parable about hypocrisy?   If you think about it . . . it is a crazy exaggeration joke.  A person offers to remove the mote from someone else's eye but they can't see clearly to do it. . . because they have a beam in their own eye.  In fact a mote is a tiny sliver or speck of debris.  But a beam is a large support structure to hold up a roof/ 

You will notice that Jesus is telling the parable in this drawing.  You can see what he is talking about in the background.   Also note that Jesus has a smile with laughing eyes.   We need more drawings or paintings of Jesus with a smile on his face. 

Daintree Rainforest

Daintree Rain forest

You could call a rain forest a jungle.  The Daintree rainforest is named after an early Australian Geologist and Photographer.  .   .  Richard Daintree.  Some of this forest is a national park.
This drawing shows some animals that live in that rain forest. 

The large flightless bird is called a Southern Cassowary.  It can weigh up to 92 lbs  with a mass of 42 kg.  .   . and be 5 ft 7 inches or 1.7 meters long.  The Cassowary is not an emu.  It is an endangered species.   I suggest looking up a cassowary photo so you can see how to color these colorful birds.

The bigger mammal on the ground is a tree kangaroo.  They weigh up to 25 lbs or a mass of 14 kg. Tree kangaroos are amazingly agile.  They can jump down to a branch 30 feet or 9 meters away.

The smallest mammal is a musky rat kangaroo.  They are only found in the Daintree rain forest.  Musky rat kangaroos have a body that is 9.5 inches or 24 cm long with additional  4.25 inches or 12 cm of tail.

Lambeosaurus

Lambeosaurus by a Pond

Lambesaurus was a Hadrosaur, which means they were duck billed dinosaurs.  They ate plants so they were herbivores.  They also had a crest like many other Hadrosaurs.  But each species had a unique crest.  The crest was for species identification probably.  They had hundreds of teeth and could chew like a mammal.  Lambeosaurus fossils have been found in Alberta Canada and some Northern  states of the western USA.  It was quit large.  It could grow up to 49 feet or 15 meters long and weigh as much as 6,600 lbs or almost 3,000  kg.  Lambeosaurus is closely related to Corythosaurus, another duck billed dinosaur with a flat crest on its head like a Roman helmet.  Lambeosaurus lived in the late Cretaceous Period, but not with T. rex ...  Lambeosaurus lived several million years before T. rex but not before a possible T. rex ancestors called Daspleteosaurus.

Daspleteosaurus on the Prowl

This is an older drawing.  It IS on the printable lists found by clicking the top buttons.

In case you are a frequent visitor to this blog.  .   .  first of all thank you for your interest and second of all, I had hand surgery.  I also went south to a nephew's high school graduation.  While in Southern Utah we visited an amazing site.  It is called Choral Pink Sand Dunes.  I will be drawing some animals from that area as soon as my hand heals.  I would not be posting this dinosaur, but it was mostly already drawn before my surgery.   I apologize for not having posted for a few day.  I would have written more today, but it still kind of hurts to draw still, and it is hard to type with a bandage on one finger.  I would also have added more detail to the background, but it is hard to draw too precisely. . . and my hand was starting to hurt. 

 My hand with Bandage from surgery

Choral Pink Sand Dunes near Kanab Utah

NOTE:  Printable versions of the drawing are found by clicking on the buttons at the top of the page.  Older entries are first and newer entries are at the bottom of the lists.  The buttons for today's post are "Paleontology" and "All Printables".  

Dogs on the Go

Dogs on the Go

  my grandnephew drew a dog in a truck wearing sunglasses.   his drawing inspired this one.

i just had surgery on my drawing hand so i can't draw OR type normally... so i will not be drawing new stuff for a week or so.  i can't type normally either.  i have a few new drawings from my trip to Wyoming so i will try to post a few but typing with my left hand only is hard.  drawing is impossible right now.

Zoo Carousel with Granddaughter

Carousel with Granddaughter

I went to the zoo yesterday with my daughter and her kids.  I got to take my granddaughter on the zoo carousel.   It was a blast!  In fact, it was the highlight of the day for me.   Although my granddaughter feeding the giraffe was pretty cool... I think I'll draw that for another day.   So I turned the photo into a freehand drawing as a coloring page.  This is not an exact drawing. . . kbut it sure was fun to do!
The zoo we went to is the Hogle Zoo Carousel in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 

Carousel with Granddaughter photo

The printable versions of the drawing are found by clicking on the top buttons that say:

"All Printables"  and  "Animals".  The newer drawings are always at the bottom of the lists.

Corazon de Familia con Alas

Winged Familia Heart
(Corazon de Familia con Alas)

Conoci' algunos hombres cuando you era en la piscina de un hotel.  Ellos estaben trabjanodo en la area.  Un hombre tenia un tatuaje de un corazon humano con alas.  Este homre dibujo' en papel el dibujo que uso' el artista de tatuaje.  Dije' que a mi me gusto' el tatuaje y despures el me dio' su dibujo.  Era su dibujo original.  Un hombre dar su dibujo an un estranjero sin preguntas era muy increible.   Me sorprendio'.  En ingles tenemos un dicho que dice "No puede juzgar un libro por medio de su tapa de libro."  El artista se llama Salvador.  No se su apellido por seguro, pero esta' escrito subre su dibujo.  El mensaje de su tatuaje es de la importancia de familia.  El mensaje es algo que todos necisitan concer.  .  .  en mi opinion. 

Wing Family Heart Coloring Page

Winged Familia Heart

Winged "Familia" Heart

I met some Hispanic men who were working in construction.  I met them at a motel pool when we were helping our daughter and her family move.  They were working in the area where our daughter's family lived. . . at the time.  These were very nice young men and we had a nice talk.  One of them had an amazing tattoo honoring family.  What was even more amazing was that HE drew the original drawing.  After we went back to our rooms he showed me the original drawing.  Even more impressive to me was he insisted on giving me the original drawing.  He was truly a gifted artist.  And to give me his original drawing because I liked it really touched my heart.  Of course it is actually a drawing of a winged heart.  I think that with people it is very important to not judge a book by its cover. 

In the below coloring page version I have drawn over a copy of his original that was run off in gray ink.  It is now very printable and you can color it if you choose.  I should note that wings are very hard to draw and he did an amazing job on them.  The organs of the human body are also very difficult to draw.  I know, I drew them every year for 16 years to teach 7th graders about them.  So this is not an original drawing of mine.  It was done by artist who signed the drawing.  What is sad is that I do not have his full name other than the signed signature.  He gave it to me on a small paper and I lost it.   because we had to load our car up with our daughter's family's stuff.   The artist's first name is Salvador.  He gave me permission to post his picture and make the coloring page version.
You can look at the color copy of  his drawing and color your page that way, or you can color the coloring page anyway you want to.

The banner on the drawing says, (translated into English)...
"Family, where life begins and the love never ends."
THAT is a message that we all need to hear.

Winged "Familia" Heart coloring page

Go Dog Go tribute page

Go Dog Go tribute page

I grew up with many health problems.  I was often in the hospital.  I was in the hospital so often that in our small town hospital. . . they actually had a room reserved just for me.  Often I spent a a week to five days in that room.  I think I learned to read partly from the  books that they had on the reading cart at that hospital.  In fact, the book Go Dog Go is what taught me to decode.   "Decode"  means reading and getting that the letters make sounds etc.  When I was an ESL teacher at elementary schools I used the book Go Dog Go frequently.  It is a great book for teaching sounds and letters... and especially English vocabulary.

Words like "up, down, under, over, in, out, go, stop and etc. are key words in any language.  I love reading the book Go Dog Go to my grand kids now.  My granddaughter is  now into telling the driver "stop" and "go" when at stop lights.

The below is an activity like what I used to do when I taught elementary school.  It is available to print on the Animals and All Printables buttons at the top of the page.

Go Dog Go worksheet page

Mansourasauarus and Alaqa

Mansourasaurus shahinae

A new discovery in North Africa...Egypt to be exact.  This dinosaur is a large Sauropod.  It lived during the Cretaceous Period.  It is one of few dinosaurs from North Africa that date to the Cretaceous.  It also is unique because it resembles European Sauropods more than South American Sauropods.  Sauropods are the large, herbivorous, long necked dinosaurs with tree trunk like legs.  

Mansourasaurus was not a huge Sauropod.  It was 26-33 feet or 8-10 meters long.  It weighed around 11,000 lbs. or about 5,000 kg.  It was basically about the weight of a African elephant.  The specimen that was found is not an adult.  

Like Saltosaurus, this animal appears to have had some armor plates scattered on its back.  It did not have a club tail so its armor was passive defensive armor.  It did not have a tail club to fight back against a Theropod or carnivorous dinosaur.  Some Sauropods with more agressive weaponized tail clubs have been found.  They include both Shunosaurus and Spinophorosaurus.  (I'm going to draw them in a few days.)

The pictured Mansourasaurus is bending its front legs to feed on the top of a small tree.  This Sauropod probably walked with its front legs in a more extended stance.  This is not a Brachiosaur.  Notice that the nostrils are located on the front of the snout and not on the top of the head like a Brachiosaurus.

The Pterosaur is called Alanqa.  It was a Cretaceous Pterosaur that was found in Morocco.  Both Morocco and Egypt are in Northern Africa.  Alanqa also is a fairly new find.  It was a fairly large Pterosaur with a wingspan of up to 20 feet or 6 meters.  Pterosaurs from the Cretaceous Period had very short or no tails.

 There is also a raptor dinosaur sneaking up on the scene.  They have found raptor dinosaur teeth in North Africa.  Since the discovery of feathered raptors in China is now assumed that most raptor dinosaurs probably had feathers.  

Dreadnoughtus a giant Titanosaur walked like an Imperial Walker

Dreadnoughtus a Giant Titanosaur

Dreadnoughtus was a giant Titanosaur from South America.  It is one of the largest land animals ever.  It was around 85 feet or 26 meters long.  The weight estimates for this huge Sauropod range from   It was two stories tall.   It had a neck that was very long. . . with a length of 37 feet or 11.3 meters.    The head and neck together were 40 feet or 12.2 meters long.  The tail was quite a bit shorter at 29 feet or 8.2 meters.   It had the largest scapula ever seen at  5' 8" or 1.74 meters.  The scapula is the shoulder blade.

The found fossilized skeleton is over 45% complete so size and weight measurements are considered very accurate for this animal.  The weight estimate is up to  metric tonnes or   short tons.  That would be 116.800 lbs or 1.168,002      Kennith Lacovara, a paleontologist, compared the walk of Dreadnoughtus to the way an Imperial Walker moved in the Star Wars movies.  So, I drew an Imperial Walker.   It is my take on the Imperial Walker.  It does not match the ones from the movies.  I particularly added more rivets. 

As a kid, when I first saw an Imperial Walker in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I was so amazed.   But as cool as I thought they were... I once was talking to a man who was an officer in the Army and he said that those Imperial Walkers would be terribly impractical.    But as a Sci Fi fan, ya gotta love how awesome they look.

Imperial Walker in the Snow

Big Al the Allosaurus with Rhamphorhynchus

Big Al the Allosaurus with Rhamphorhynchus

Big Al is the name given to a sub adult or young adult Allosaurus that was found in Wyoming a few years ago.  This dinosaur was nearly complete.  It had a severely infected toe that probably is what killed him.  The toe bone shows severe deformities from infection after being broken, (probably form a compound fracture).  Big Al has several broken bones in places like his ribs.  It is thought that some of them may have been from trying to attack a long neck Sauropod and others may have been from other Allosaurs.  The toe injury is what was the killer though.   Without being able to run and bring down prey a predator is doomed.  Look closely at his right foot in the drawing and in the below photo and you can see the swollen middle toe.

Big Al's Foot with Infected Toe

This can been seen, along with all of the found Big Al Skeleton at the

 Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. 

Allosaurus was one of the top predators of the Jurassic Period.  Most fossilized specimens indicate it was around 30 feet or 9 meters long.  However some found fossils have also found evidence that mature Allosaurus could grow to be 40 feet long.  They were therefore as long as a T. rex, but T. rex and Allosaurus never met, because they lived 90 million years or more apart.  If they HAD faced off I think T. rex's much larger hed and powerful bite would have won the day.  Still, Allosaurus was so successful that we have found many many specimens of them in the rock record.  In fact, one "predator trap" was found at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Eastern Utah where at least 44 specimens of Allosaurus were found.  They are also of differing ages.  So we know Allosaurus was very successful in the Jurassic Period.

Back when I was teaching Science I used to show a great documentary by BBC about Big All.  It is called Walking With Dinosaurs the Ballad of Big Al Special.  This is an excellent documentary.  It starts with telling the story of Big Al with good pretty realistic animation.  Then it has a second part that explains how they made the movie and how the paleontologists made their conclusions about Big Al's life and injuries.  It is really well done and I highly recommend the documentary.   It helps you see how scientists and especially paleontologists work and use the Scientific Method.  I used to call him a Klutzasaurus.

There are several BBC produced "Walking With..." documentaries and they are all very well done.
I especially like Walking With Dinosaurs, Walking With Monsters, Walking With Prehistoric Beasts.

There is also a Rhamphorynchus in the above drawing.  It is actually a Rhamporhynchoid from North America.  Ramphorynchoids originated in Europe and were the first animals to truly fly. . . other than insects.  During the Jurassic the continents were still pretty close and had just started to divide.  The Europe continent was at the time a series of islands and there was no huge expanse of ocean between those islands and the new North American Continent.  Therefore it makes sense that Rhaphorhynchus and its relatives obviously crossed those smaller seaways to arrive in what is now called North America.

Robin Hood out Hunting coloring page

Robin Hood out Hunting

(Maybe sort of like the famous baseball player Babe Ruth...Robin is saying where the arrow will go.)

I suppose it was inevitable that I should do a Robin Hood coloring page.  I was actually named after Robin Hood.  My father...long before he was my father...in fact when he was 13 received a book called The Adventures of Robin Hood.  It was Christmas 1934.  When I grew up and left home Dad gave he his copy of that book.  It said inside the cover: "To Mel, Christmas, 1934".

This is kind of an Errol Flynn look of Robin Hood.  Errol Flynn played Robin Hood in a movie in 1938.  This was way back before I was born.

My favorite Robin Hood movie is Robin Hood Prince of Thieves from 1991, starring Kevin Costner.  There is a great scene in that movie with an African man who came to England with Robin of Loxley (Robin Hood's real name).  In the scene a little child asks the Moor, Azeem, of Africa (played well by Morgan Freeman) . . ."Why did God paint you black?"   And the Moor answers with,  "Because Allah loves wondrous variety!"

I love that scene and that quote.  It teaches us an important lesson. . .
Many of us in America who are considered "white" are actually a mixed race person.   Something like 80% of us are part Native American. . .including me.   And if you look at the world there are many looks to the people, and they are all God's creation. . . So I really do think God loves wondrous variety.  In fact we have traveled quite a bit since we retired.  We have seen beauty in the people of every country.  Often the people working in the Hospitality Industry were from countries where we had not visited, yet they too were beautiful people.

Scientifically speaking when someone marries a person from a different part of the world this is GOOD for the Human Race because there is a good mix of genes that way when they have children.  My dad was English and Danish.  My mom was Welch and Native American.

A couple more science or historical notes:   The deer Robin Hood would have hunted are called Red Deer.  They are native to Europe and England.  They can grow to up to 7 feet long and weigh up to 440 lbs.  That would be 2.23 meters long and a mass of about 200 kg.   On another note, the English Longbow proved to be a very effective weapon back in the middle ages.  At the battle of Agincourt or Azincourt in French...the English longbow played a pivital part.  It allowed the English archers to pierce the chain mail armor of the French.   English archers would stick a bunch of arrows in the ground in front of themselves so they could fire many shots in a minute. 

Jesus cuddles a Lamb

Jesus cuddles a Lamb

Jesus was and is the most important being to ever live as a mortal on Earth.  He was our Savior and paid the eternal punishment price for our sins.  We all mess up at some point and as the Bible says, We fall short of the glory of God.  The atonement of Jesus Christ was what paid that price for us.  We
owe him, our big brother, more than we can ever repay.  But all he asks of us is for us to keep His commandments, and repent when we fail.  Without us repenting, Jesus died in vain.

We Latter Day Saints also believe that Jesus Christ's death and resurrection makes it possible for us to all be resurrected one day.   .   . with glorified and and perfect physical bodies.  We believe that after we die our spirit goes to the Spirit World. . . a kind of heaven where our spirit continues to learn and grow closer to God.  We also help other spirits there by teaching them the Gospel.  I personally believe that many people will accept the Gospel there.  I also think that people who were saddled with mental or intellectual challenges in mortal life will be able to have all their mental faculties both in the spirit world and after the resurrection.

I love the paintings I have seen of Jesus holding a lamb.  When we have sinned we are like the lost lamb that Jesus went and found.  There is a painting by Minerva Teichert at the Provo or Mt. Timpanogos Temple...and it is of Jesus holding a black sheep.  So if you want to color the sheep black that works.  A black sheep is rare, and sometimes considered an outcast.  So if you ever feel out of place or alone or like you don't fit in...Jesus is on your side. 

A section of the Minerva Teichert Painting of Jesus holding a Lamb

Jesus compared himself to the Good Shepherd.  OR he called himself that.  Perhaps he worked for a time as a shepherd.  Or maybe he had shepherd friends there in the Galilee area.  When I see a painting of Jesus holding a lamb I get choked up because I know I am that lamb.  We ALL are that lamb.  In my case, when I was in Boston and my throat surgery went bad and I was told I was going to die. . . this was 12 years ago . . . anyway, I felt my Savior's love and knew he knew how I felt being alone and in terrible pain.  Rather recently in my life I learned that Jesus not only suffered for our sins but in some amazing way he suffered every pain we feel in our life.  He did this so that He would be able to succor his children.  He is not God the Father, but he IS the Father of our Salvation.

The way this drawing worked out Jesus turned out to be rather stocky and perhaps short.  We really don't know for sure what Jesus looked like, but as a son of a carpenter, he probably worked as a carpenter. . . and I don't know any weakling carpenters.   So Jesus being muscular makes sense to me.  I could have altered the drawing, but it looked pretty good so I left it as it was.  After all, I thought, we really don't know what Jesus looked like. .  .  or what he looks like as a glorified resurrected being. 

Mother's Day 2018

Mother Cat and Kitten for Mother's Day

Mother Kangaroo Rat with Kitten

(Did you know a baby kangaroo rat is called a kitten?)

Elephant Mommy with Calf for Mother's Day

Flowers for Mother's Day

(These are actually marigolds.  So if you forgot to get your wife or mom flowers for Mother's Day, then here are some you can print and color for her. . . unless SHE likes to color.) 

Above are a few drawings I did today for Mother's Day 2018.  If you are a kid you could color any of them for your mom.  If it is a cartoon drawing and there are no eyelashes on the child animal, just add eyelashes.  That is a cartooning trick to make an animal a female. 

A salute to my mother who gave me my first art lessons!  She was a professional artist.  The year I first taught school I was teaching in Southern California when Mom paid us a visit.  She bought my daughter a toy horse and then after the kids went to bed she taught me how to draw horses.  More importantly she taught me how to SEE things and draw what I see.

On a scientific note, there are mounds of evidence that dinosaurs DID care for their young.

The below are older drawings you can use for Mother's Day cards etc.  They are from last year.   .   .

NOTE:  This is me from 2020.  I wanted to let you know that you can find my 2020 Mother's Day cards that can be colored at this URL:  https://gr8coloringpages.blogspot.com/

Unicorn Mare defending foal

Mother Shetland Pony with Foal

Mother's Day card with Apatosaurus

Mother's Day Card with Cat and Kitten

Mother's Day card with Chick and Magnolias

Triceratops Mother and Two Calves

Spinosaurus hunting with Young

Triceratops Mother feeding the Kids

NOTE:  Feel free to use any of my drawings as a Mother's Day card

 or as part of a Mother's Day Card.  

Triceratops and some other Ceratopsian Dinosaurs

Triceratops feeding on Ferns near a Volcano

Triceratops was the largest of the Ceratopsians.  Ceratopsian dinosaurs were herbivores and most had horns and all had a frill that appeared to be there to protect their neck.  They were a diverse group of armored dinosaurs.  Some had spikes on their frill and some had no horns at all.  Some had one horn.  Some had two horns.  Some had three horns.  All had a curved beak for browsing.  That means they probably mostly ate leaves from bushes, but possibly bark as well.  They probably ate leaves from ferns as well.  The new drawing above is of a Triceratops eating ferns.  There is some fairly new evidence that the grass family of plants had evolved earlier than once thought.  This means that Triceratops, a Late Cretaceous animal, probably grazed some on grass as well.  The earlier Ceratopsians probably also fed on the same types of plants as Triceratops. 

All the below drawings are from previous posts.   The printable versions are found by clicking the buttons at the top of the page.  Specifically the "All Printables" button and the "Paleontology" button. The older drawings are at the top of the list and the new drawings are at the bottom of the list. 

Styracosaurus feeding on Ferns

Styracosaurus

Monoclonius rubbing Cycad trunk

Mother Triceratops with Spots

Triceratops from D Train

This is a salute to the excellent PBS Kid show called Dinosaur Train.  

Triceratops Grazing

I DID mention that they probably grazed on grass sometimes too. 

The below two dinosaurs were some of the earliest Ceratopsians...

. . . from before the time they had evolved horns for defense.   

They were MUCH smaller than Triceratops.  

They were the size of a sheep.  

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Protoceratops