Announcement and an Apology

This is a note to all of you who read and print from this blog.  I apologize to you if you have not been able to print from the "Printable" lists.  It turns out that Google changed how to link things and I was not linking them properly.  I have remedied the situation now.  If you are one of the people I have drawn over the last couple of months... know that your drawing (probably as a Fairy) is now printable.  

So to everyone, you can now click on the category buttons up top and scroll down to the drawing you want to print. I apologize if you were not able to print from the categories for a while.  

One more thing, which I have mentioned before:  About a year ago I started to draw more with pencil.  The "printable" pages, that you access via the buttons, are done in PDF format.  That format sometimes does not save the pencil drawings as clearly as the PNG files on the main blog page.  If you can copy a drawing from the main blog page and then paste it onto another site or program for printing, you will probably get a better drawing to color.  

Again, I apologize for the problems with the printable pages.  

I hope you are enjoying the coloring pages and the info and stories that I add to each picture I draw and post on this free coloring pages blog. 

Newly Discovered Extinct Animals on the Isle of Wight coloring page

 

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Vectaerovenator and a Tapejarid from the Isle of Wight

Vectaerovenator inopinatus is the name given to a new species of Theropod or carnivorous dinosaur that was recently found on the Isle of Wight.  I should say that some of its BONES were found on the Isle of Wight.  It is thought to be a very bird-like large Theropod because its bones were VERY hollow.  In fact, the name is referring to the large air sacs seen in the bones.  Vectaerovenator was about 13 feet or 4 meters long.  It lived around 115 million years ago in the Mid-Cretaceous.  

The air sacs that Vectaerovenator had were like birds' air sacs.  They were extensions of the lungs and helped in the animal having efficient breathing.  Since Vetaerovenator was not a flying dinosaur we can assume that because of these air sacs, that it was VERY active.  It possibly was a fast predator with the capability to run and chase down prey.  

The Pterosaur or flying reptile is a type of Tapejarid that was also recently found on the Isle of Wight. This is a family of Pterosaurs that are found from Europe, the UK, and clear over in South America.  There are several species of this family of Pterosaurs.  They are known for their large sail-like (or maybe rudder-like) crest on their head.  It is possible that this crest was used to help them turn while flying so maybe it WAS a rudder.  It is also likely that the crest was larger in males and was there for sexual display... in other words, to attract the females of the species.  

NOTE:  This drawing, and many more drawings of prehistoric life, can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the top button labeled "Paleontology."  Scroll down to the bottom of the list for this new drawing.  

Heavy Equipment coloring pages

 

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It is a Kamatsu Excavator 

(with my grandson driving it). 

I did ad-lib some on the drawing... 

including kind of miniaturizing it. 

My grandson is only 3.

Excavator by a Date Palm Tree

(This Excavator is the new drawing today.)

The palm tree is a date palm.  My grandson loves big equipment!

Bulldozer

Haul Truck at a Mine

Stanley the Steam Shovel digs up a Dinosaur

Front End Loader pulling a Wagon

These drawings can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the "Vehicles" button at the top of the page.  Then scroll down.  The new drawing will be last on the list of drawings.  

Broad-Tailed Hummingbird coloring page

 

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In fact, it is two of them.

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Broad-Tailed Hummingbird

The Broad-Tailed Hummingbird lives in Western North America. They tend to live in mountains from Canada, south to the United States of America, and clear through Mexico into Guatemala.  The male has a red throat or gorget... and the female is more subdued in coloration.  The male is the bird in the background in this drawing.  The Female is the bird near the flowers and in the foreground.  

The Broad-Tailed Hummingbird is 4 inches long... or 10 cm long.  It has a wingspan of 5.25 inches or 13.3 cm.  Both the male and female have an iridescent green back.  They like to live under the canopy of forests.  They fly to Mexico and Guatemala in the fall...for the winter and return to breeding grounds further north in the spring.  

NOTE:  The printable version of this drawing can be found by clicking on the "Animals" button and scrolling down.  New drawings are at the bottom of the list.  Have fun coloring... and remember, the male has a red gorget or throat and he is in the background.  The female is in the foreground.  If I were you I would look up a photo of these birds before I colored them.  

Below are the photos I saw on a Facebook Group called "Utah Nature Lovers."  Photos are by Aliesha Shepherd, a gifted nature photographer. He photos inspired my drawing.  Her photos are used with her permission.  Be aware that her photos seen below are all of the female Broad-Tailed Hummingbirds.  I edited these pages or zoomed in to get the details.  I had to look at another photo to get the markings right for the male. 

Inspiration for my female drawing... although I added my own version of the flowers.

Initial inspiration for my male drawing... even though this is a female.

Tree Fairies - Rubino the Cottonwood Fairy coloring page

 

Tree Fairies - Rubino the Fremont Cottonwood Fairy

Rubino is a Fremont Cottonwood Fairy.  He is seen here by a Fremont Cottonwood Tree.  John C. Fremont was the naturalist who named this tree.  It's official scientific name is Populus fremontii. 

So, the tree is a Poplar and that is why it has the Genus name of Populus.  Its species name of fremontii is after John C. Fremont... who was a US Army officer and an explorer and naturalist.  

Tree Fairies can climb trees very easily.  Of course, they can also fly to the top of the tree if they want to. Tree Fairies, like almost all Fairies, usually wear a flying belt when they are out and about.  You should know that Rubino is a very young Tree Fairy.  He is not yet an adult but his skills have him already assigned to forest protection duty.  He has transformed himself to mortal size.  Of course, his natural size is closer to 3.5 inches tall or about 9 cm. 

Fremont Cottonwoods are my favorite type of tree.  Near the edge of my father's farm, where I was raised, in southern Utah, there was a small grove of Cottonwood Trees.  I did not learn the name "Fremont Cottonwoods" until I was studying Science in college.  Fremont Cottonwood Trees can grow to around 116 feet tall.  That is 35 meters tall.   In comparison, the Narrow-Leaf Cottonwood grows to a maximum of 60 feet or 18 meters tall.  

You might notices that the tree is not growing straight up, that is something that sometimes happens with Cottonwood Trees. 

This drawing can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus."  Then scroll down because new drawings are at the bottom of the list of drawings. 

Tree Fairies - May, the Narrow-Leaf Cottonwood Fairy coloring page

 

Tree Fairies - May the Narrow-Leaf Cottonwood Fairy

Mae is a Narrow-Leaf Cottonwood Fairy.  She is a very young Fairy.  She would be in Elementary School if she was a mortal.  Of course, she IS in the Fairy world version of Elementary School.  May is a particularly bright Fairy.  She already servers shifts caring for the forest.  She lives in Utah, USA, and she has bonded with Narrow-Leaf Cottonwood trees.  

Narrow-Leaf Cottonwood Trees are not as well known to mortals as they should be.  Many of the cottonwoods in riparian areas are Narrow-Leaf Cottonwoods.  From a distance, they look a lot like the regular Fremont Cottonwoods that grow here.  But Narrow-Leaf Cottonwoods have leaves that are much more narrow.  They are long pinnate leaves.  The leaves on a Fremont Cottonwood are more heart-shaped with a wavy serrations.  In contrast, the Narrow-Leaf Cottonwood has tiny serrations and the leaves are much like a willow, however, Narrow-Leaf Cottonwood leaves are much wider and generally much longer than willow leaves.  Because both willows and Narrow-Leaf Cottonwoods grow in riparian areas, they are sometimes mistaken for the other species.  

By the way, "riparian plants" are plants that grow along rivers and waterways. 

The species name for Narrow-Leaf Cottonwood is angustifolia.  The full scientific name is 

Populus angustifolia.  The Fremont cottonwood is Popullus fremontii.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the top button that says "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list for the new drawing.  OR if you can copy the drawing posted on this blog page and paste it into another program and THEN print it... you will probably get a better copy.  The printable pages are PDF files and they are not as good of quality as PNG files on this main part of the blog.  

Early Sea Life coloring pages

 

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Early Jurassic Sea

This top drawing is of the Early Jurassic ocean or sea.  The organisms are all from that time period.  So while Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Apatosaurus were roaming the land, these animals were roaming the seas. 

The animals in the drawing are as follows:  There is an Ichthyosaur after a fish called Hypsocormus. Hypsocornus was a three-foot-long or about 1-meter long fish.  There is a jawless fish.  Jawless fish still exist in the waters of Earth.  Jawless fish are of the Class: Agnatha and some attach to other water life and suck their blood.  Some Agnatha live in freshwater too.  There is a long fish and it is swimming under the Orthocone.  It is a bony fish or Class: Osteichthyes.  There also two jellyfish.  Jellyfish first appeared way BEFORE the Mesozoic Era.  The things that look like flowers are sea lilies.   But they are not flowers.  Sea Lilies are a type of filter feeder that fed on plankton.  They are a type of animal and some still exist in our modern oceans.  They are also called Crinoids. Crinoids also evolved way before the Mesozoic Era.  

This drawing is of life in the oceans in the Early Jurassic... which was about 200 million years ago.  The Orthocones were about to go extinct and Ichthyosaurs were fairly new to the ocean and the planet. There are also two Mesozoic plants in the drawing.  The Ichthyosaurs were large marine reptiles that lived in much of the Mesozoic Era.  Some were as big as 70 feet long.  That would be over 21 meters!

By the way, the Orthocones are related to the extinct Ammonites.  Some Orthocones were a few inches long and some were 20 feet or over 6 meters long.  In some periods of the Paleozoic Era, the large Orthocones were the apex predator or the top predator.  Orthocones were in Class: Cephalopoda... so they were early cephalopods.  Their modern relatives are squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and the nautilus.  

To be clear, the dinosaurs and great Marine Reptiles lived in the Mesozoic Era.  The Mesozoic Era is divided into three periods:  The first is the Triassic Period.  Then there was the Jurassic Period.  And the last period of the Mesozoic Era was the Cretaceous Period.  

NOTE:  I will also post some other drawings of ancient ocean animals.  I will post them (or I should say re-post them) below.  To get to the printable pages just click on the button labeled "Paleontology."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list for the new drawing.   The older drawings will be further up the list.  

Anomalocaris First Super Predator

(This is the Cambrian Ocean.  The Cambrian Period was the first period of the Paleozoic Era.               The Paleozoic Era was before the Mesozoic Era.)

Pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus

(Rhomaleosaurus was also an Early Jurassic animal.  This was around the time that Ammonites appeared as well.  The curly animals that looks like a curly Orthocone is an Ammonite.                            Pliosaurs were short-necked Plesiosaurs.)

Plesiosaurus surfacing

(This is a long neck Plesiosaur.  They lived in both the Jurassic and into the late-Cretaceous Periods.)

Elasmosaurus mother and calf

(Elasmosaurus was a late-Cretaceous long-necked Plesiosaur. and yes there were sharks back then.)

Mosasaur after a Pteranodon

(Mosasaurs were to top predator of the late-Cretaceous.)

Shonisaurus feeding

(This was the 70 feet long Ichthyosaur from the Triassic Period.  Oddly enough it was found in the desert of Southern Nevada hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean.  You can go see the 6 or 7 individuals of this species... or their bones anyway... at Berlin-Ichthyosaur Historic State Park.)

Tylosaurus with Ammonites

(Tylosaurus was one of or possibly the largest Mosasaur.)

Tylosaurus with Large Scales

Ichthyosaur anningae hunting an Ammonite

(This Ichthyosaur was named after the great paleontologist: Mary Anning.  She found many of the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur fossils that introduced the world to Marine Reptiles.  She also found the first Pterosaur that had ever been found outside of Germany.)

Mary Anning and 3 species she discovered

The Prophet Nephi Praying on his Garden Tower Book of Mormon coloring page

 

The Prophet Nephi praying on his Tower

Nephi is the name of several characters in the Book of Mormon.  This Nephi lived around 21 B.C. He was the prophet but the Nephites had rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  On the other hand, the Lamanites were living righteously.  Nephi went to pray for his people on his tower.  His yard and the tower were near the main road in Zarahemla and people heard him praying.  It is an amazing story and you can read about it in The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Christ.  The story is found in Heleman, chapters 7-10.  Nephi is able to prophesy that the chief judge was murdered.  It is a fascinating story of how Nephi is accused of being in league with the murderer and then is exonerated. 

There is a lot of debate about where the Book of Mormon events actually happened.  ONE view is that the Nephites and Lamanites were the Hopewell culture from East and Central North America.  There is also some thought that the Adena Culture were possibly the Lamanites and Nephites.  

Archaeologists are not clear on how those cultures related to each other.  Both cultures, along with the Mississippian Culture, are all called the Mound Builders.  This drawing is based on Hopewell Culture homes, and clothing.  Maybe the Nephites and Lamanites were the Hopewell and Adena Cultures.  Maybe they were one of the Central or South American cultures.

This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Religious."  Then scroll down to the bottom because new drawings are found at the bottom of the list of printable drawings.  

Ceratosaurus coloring pages

 

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Ceratosaurus walking in a Riverbed

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Ceratosaurus was a more primitive Theropod that lived in the Jurassic Period.  More derived Theropods like Allosaurus and Torvosaurus were possibly more competitive and drove Ceratosaurus to extinction.  

Ceratosaurus had a crest horn above each eye and a nose horn as well.  This type of horn arrangement was very rare in Theropods.  Some Theropods had eye crests but three horns were not a common feature.  

Ceratosaurus was smaller than Allosaurus.  It was about 25 feet long, or between 7 and 8 meters long.  It weighed around 1200 lbs.  That is about 344 kg.  In comparison, an adult Allosaur was around 30-40 feet long and weighed up to 2.5 tons or 5000 lbs.  Now, T. rex lived at a different time, but in comparison, the largest T. rex was 42 feet long and weighed 20,000 lbs.  That is about 13 meters long and 9,702 kg. 

Ceratosaurs possibly was the top predator EARLIER in the Jurassic Period, but it just could not compete with the larger Theropods that evolved like Allosaurus and Torvosaurus.  

NOTE:  This new drawing is done with large scales, although in reality, evidence shows that dinosaur scales were probably smaller than that.  Below are some older drawings of Ceratosaurus.  These drawings all can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button up top labeled "Paleontology."  But if you want a little better quality drawing just save the above drawing to another program, like Microsoft Word, and then print it from there.  The "Printable" files are saved in PDF and it just is not as good as the PNG files on this main blog site.  If you DO click on the Paleontology button then scroll down to see the new drawing.  The new drawing is at the bottom of the list.  

Ceratosaurus

Ceratosaurus by a River

Tree Fairies - Emilia the Tree Fairy coloring page

 

Emilia the Elm Fairy

Emilia is an Elm Fairy.  Elm Fairies are known to be into planting their favorite tree genus.  Elm seeds are found in a round winged fruit, so they are carried in the wind.  Some species of elm, like Chinese or Siberian Elm are planted all over the place in the United States, even though they are not native.  There ARE native Elm in the USA as well.  For instance, the American Elm.  

Elm trees produce excellent wood for furniture and even butcher blocks.  Elmwood is hard and very useful.  But elm trees are most popular for being excellent SHADE trees.  They grow to around 100 feet or 30 meters tall.  

Emilia is seen kneeling on elm leaves in the fall.  Elm tree leaves tend to not begin to change color until they are hit by a good strong frost.  The American Elm will change, after a frost, from a deep green to a golden yellow.  

An interesting thing about elm tree leaves is that they are NOT symetrical.  If you fold an elm leaf in half on the center vein, you will see that it is not the same on each side.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus" button. Then scroll down to the bottom of the list for the new drawing.  

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.  

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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.  

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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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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

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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

 

This is a free coloring pages blog.  

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)