New European Brachiosaur Soriatitan , Brachiosuarus and Sauroposeidon coloring pages

 

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Soriatitan the New European Braciosuar

Soriatitan is the newest discovered Brachiosaur.  It was discovered in Europe.  It lived during the Early Cretaceous Period.  This shows that Brachiosaurs lived on past the Jurassic and into the Cretaceous Period.  The fossil remains were found in Spain. The full scientific name is Soriatitan golmayensis.

Soriatitan was big, but not near as big as the biggest Brachiosaurs like Sauroposiedon.  Soriatitan was around 46 feet or 14 meters long.  It was about 40 feet tall or 12 meters tall. It weighed about 8 tons. An African elephant weighs around 6.5 tons so Soriatitan weighed more than an elephant. 8 tons is 16,000 lbs.  So Soriatitan weighed 16,000 lbs. or 7,257 kg. That is way less than Brachiosaurus.  Brachiosaurus weighed an estimated 62 tons.  Sauroposeidon, the biggest Brachiosaur, weighed 65 tons or 130,000 lbs.  That is almost 59,000 kg.  Another Brachiosaur named Giraffatitan weighed 43.5 tons.  

AS far as height... the various Brachiosars all had the longer front legs and so they were the tallest of the long-necked Sauropods.  Sauroposeidon was the tallest at around 60 feet tall.  That is 18.3 meters tall.  Giraffatitan was 39 feet tall or about 12 meters tall. Brachiosaurus was about 31 feet tall.  That is 13 meters tall.  Then there is today's newest Brachiosaur, Soriatitan who was 40 feet tall or  12 meters tall. 

NOTE:  This new drawing of Soriatitan is found, in printable form, at the bottom of the list when you click on the "Paleontology" button.  Just scroll down to the bottom of the list of drawings.  The other Brachiosaur drawings are found further up the list.  I am now going to post older drawings of Brachiosaurs.  Have fun coloring them!

Brachiosaurus feeding on a Cycad Tree

 Brachiosaurus for Small Children to Color

Brachiosaurus found in Utah

Sauroposedon feeding on a  Cycad Tree

Sauroposeidon the world's Tallest Dinosaur

Sauroposeidon and Ornithochierus

Sauroposeidon comparison with 2 Jr. High Kids

Great Blue Heron flying coloring page

 

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Great Blue Herons flying

Blue Herons or the Great Blue Heron live in many parts of the world.  From a few parts of Southern Europe to the Galapagos Islands and over much of North America, Central America, and into some parts of northern South America. 

There are two types of Blue Heron.  The Great Blue Heron and the Little Blue Heron.  There is also a White Heron that may or may not be a subspecies.  Some ornithologists think the White Heron is a separate species.  

As far as size, the Great  Blue Heron is up to 54 inches or 137 cm long.  Their wingspan can be up to 79 inches or 201 cm.  The males are bigger than the female birds and the males can weigh up to 5.5 lbs. or about 2.5 kg.  

Great Blue Herons are a blue-gray color and they have a very long neck and long wader legs.  They are a beautiful bird.  We went to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge near Brigham City, Utah, USA.  We went there twice in the past week.  We saw 5 Blue Herons and the Herons in my drawing are more or less based on some of the photos I took with my iPhone camera.  That bird refuge is on the way to where our daughter lives so we went to the bird refuge on the way.

The drawing can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled "Animals" or click on the NEW  button that says "Birds."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list of drawings for this new drawing.  New drawings are always at the bottom of the list.  

I will soon post a few of the photos from the bird refuge. . . 

F-22 Raptor Fighter and the F-35 coloring pages

 

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F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter

The F-22 Raptor Fighter is a true Interceptor.  It was designed for air to air combat.  It can fly extremely fast and turn at high angles.  It is currently in service with the United States Air Force.  It is a stealth fighter and is pretty much invisible to radar. 

The F-22 is 62 feet long.  That is 18.8 meters.  It weighs 83,500 lbs or about 38,000 kg.. . when fully loaded with fuel etc.  It has a wingspan of 44.5 feet or about 13.6 meters.  It is 16.7 feet tall.  That is about 5 meters tall.  The two engines have a thrust of 35,000 lbs or 15,876 kg.  

The F-22 has a range of over 1,800 miles.  That is about 2,900 km.  It has a top speed with full afterburners of around 1,500 miles per hour.  That is 2,414 kilometers per hour.  This means that the    F-22 Raptor is a MACH 2 fighter.  It can fly twice the speed of sound!

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the "Vehicles" button at the top of the page.  Then remember to scroll to the bottom of the list because new drawings are found at the bottom of the lists of printable drawings.  The F-22 is now meant to be a support to the newer fighter-bomber called the F-35 Lightning II.  So I am posting my drawing of the F-35 below.  The F-35 is an amazing aircraft as well, but it is a dual role in that it is both a fighter aircraft and a bomber.  It can not match the speed of the F-22 because it is not an interceptor.  

F-35 Lightning Fighter-Bomber Jet Aircraft

Nanuqsaurus and Cryodrakon of the Cretaceous Arctic coloring pages

 

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Nanuqsaurus and Cryodrakon of the Cretaceous Arctic

Yes, there were dinosaurs and Pterosaurs in the Arctic.  During the late Cretaceous, there was a smaller Tyrannosaur and a very large Pterosaur.  The dinosaur was called Nanuqsaurus.  That name means "Polar Bear Lizard."  Nanuqsaurus was around 20 feet or 6 meters long.  It had the typical Tyrannosaur small arms with two claws.  It also had the smaller front teeth for tearing meat off of bones.  The bigger teeth were for crushing bone.  By the way, "nanuq" means "polar bear" in Inuktitut... which is the language of the Inuit Native Americans. . . who are the Eskimos.  By the way, although Nanuqsaurus was about half the size of a full-grown T. rex, I don't think a 20-foot long dinosaur is a small animal!

Cryodrakon was a very large Pterosaur.  In fact, it may have had a wingspan of close to 30 feet or 9 meters.  (Some estimates have it at around 16 feet but that may be due to the specimen that was being examined was a sub-adult or a juvenile.)  This Pterosaur or flying reptile was so big that it may well have eaten small vertebrates like baby dinosaurs.  When standing on the ground it may well have been as tall as a giraffe.   

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"Paleontology."  Scroll down to the bottom of the list for this new drawing.  Below are a couple of other drawings of these animals... from previous posts. 

Nanuqsaurus the Polar Bear Lizard

(There is the Aurora Borealis in the sky.)

Cryodrakon the Ice Dragon

(Notice the Nothern Lights in the sky?)

China the Doggy and her Beautiful Master coloring page

 

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China the Doggy and her Beautiful Master

China is a cute little doggy.  She is owned by a beautiful young woman.  The photo that was used to draw this picture is from the doggy and master in a car.  You can clearly see the seatbelt.  In my defense, it is very challenging to capture the physical beauty of a person in a coloring page drawing.  We know this person.  She is a grandniece of ours.  She is also beautiful on the inside.  True beauty is about what kind of person you are.  

This drawing can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the top button labeled "Animals."  (I don't have a "People" category.)  Scroll down after you click the "Animals" button because new drawings are found at the bottom of the list.  Also, you can probably get a better print of this drawing if you know how to capture and print the image on this main blog page.  It is scanned and saved in a PNG format and that is better than the PDF format of the "Printable" pages.    

Tree Fairies - Willow Tree Fairy with Hummingbird Egg coloring page

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Tree Fairies - Willow Tree Fairy with Hummingbird Egg

Willow Tree Fairies are some of the more slender Fairies.  Maybe this has to do with willow leaves being quite narrow.  This particular Willow Tree Fairy is also a friend to the Hummingbirds that nest in Willow Trees.  She is holding an egg that she inspected.  She has been caring for the Hummingbird chicks while the mother was out searching for nectar.  The mother Hummingbird is just coming home to her nest.  can see her flying in . . . in the background.  THIS Willow Tree Fairy is named Salicis.  That means Willow in Latin.  Most Fairies know Latin.  It is one of their primary languages.  You may have noticed that Salicis, who is also a Hummingbird Fairy... has wings like a hummingbird.  In fact, if you saw her flying you would see a hummingbird, not a Fairy.  This is because she would be using a Fairy concealment charm to make her look like a bird that we mortals are used to seeing. 

Willow Trees have been useful to both Man and Fairykind over the centuries.  Willow bark is rich in salicylates and that chemical has many medicinal uses.  In fact, both the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Native Americans used Willow Bark to help with fever and pain relief.  Eventually, this ingredient, salicylic acid, was used to make aspirin.   Willow trees are primarily riparian plants so they like to live near freshwater... such as rivers, lakes, and ponds.  Willows are found on all continents of the Northern Hemisphere. . . along waterways mostly.  

In English folklore, Willow Trees are supposed to be able to uproot themselves to chase after people.  This may be the source for J.R.R. Tolkien's Ents.  Ents are tree shepherds that look like trees of different species, but Ents can walk, talk, and fight.  Willows are important in other cultures and some religions as well.  

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Bear coloring pages

 

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Cave Bear in the Spring

Cave Bears were a large species of bear that lived over 15,000 years ago.  They were the size of a modern-day Grizzly Bear.  But the Cave Bear bones have been found primarily inside caves.  So it is thought that they frequented caves of shelter and not just for hibernation.  Their closest living relatives are the Grizzly Bears.  But Grizzly Bears usually only go into caves for hibernation.  

Cave bears lived in the last ice age.  There was one recently found that is completely intact.  It was frozen and global warming had melted the permafrost it was frozen in.  Even the nose was perfectly preserved.  This Cave Bear was found in Siberia... by reindeer herders. 

Cave Bears really were large.  When standing they were 10 feet 6 inches tall... that is about 3.5 meters. 

The majority of the males could weigh up to 1320 lbs.  That is around 600 kg.  Some specimen were even bigger than that.  Larger bones were found in a cave that are estimated to be from a male that weighed up to 2,200 lbs or 1,000 kg.  Female Cave Bears were smaller than the males.  The larger females were 550 lbs. or 250 kg.  

NOTE:  In this drawing, the male Cave Bear is just out of his cave after hibernation.  He is in the Tiaga Forest of Siberia and the snow is melting and only on parts of the forest floor.  In North America, we generally call the conifer forest up north the Boreal Forest.  

NOTE:  This drawing can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology."

Then scroll down for the new drawing.  New drawings are at the bottom of the page.  Below are two other bear drawings from older or previous posts. 

Grizzly Mother and Cub

Polar Bear Mother and Cubs

Schleitheimia schutzi and Caelestiventus hanseni coloring page

 

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Schleitheimia schutzi a Sauropodomorph

Schleitheimia schutzi is the name given to a newly discovered dinosaur that was discovered in Switzerland.  It was around 33 feet or 10 meters long.  It was a Sauropodomorph.  It was one of the transition species between the Prosauropods and the enormous Sauropods.  This newly discovered dinosaur lived in the Late Triassic Period and the Early Jurassic Period.  The species name of schutzi was for the name of the discoverer of the dinosaur.

The flying reptile or Pterosaur in the drawing is a late Triassic Pterosaur named Caelestiventus hanseni.  The species name of hanseni is for Robin Hansen the BLM (Beaurea of Land Management) Geologist who helped with the excavation of the fossil.  It was found in the Saints and Sinners Quarry in NE Utah, USA  (I've been to that quarry.) This Pterosaur was possibly the largest Triassic Pterosaur.  It had a wingspan of around 5 feet or about 1.5 meters.  

So, I must admit that the proportions in the drawing are kind-of off.  So to solve that situation I'll just say that the Pterosaur is in the foreground and the Sauropodamorph is farther back in the picture.  That will give you a more correct view.  After all, the Sauropodomorph was 33 feet long!  Of course, you could say that the Sauropodomorph, Schleitheimia schutzi, in the drawing is just a juvenile or sub-adult. 

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Tree Fairies - Birch Tree Fairy coloring pages

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Today's post is another in my series of drawings of species-specific Tree Fairies. 

Tree Fairies -  Birch Tree Fairy

Tree Fairies - Birch Tree Fairy  (full dress version)

Birch Tree Fairies are particularly attached to Birch Trees.  They are beautiful Fairies that love to transform to mortal size and sit up in their tree.  Of course, they protect all the trees in the forests, but Birch Trees are their favorite. Of course, all Fairies can change size from their natural 5 inches tall to mortal size.  But not all Fairies choose to do this.  Birch Tree Fairies, like some other Tree Fairies, have wings that look a lot like a birch tree leaf.  When in diminutive size a Birch Tree Fairy can hind under her wings when sitting on their favorite tree.  

Notice that this Birch Tree Fairy is wearing woven birch tree leaves for her clothing.  She also has on the traditional flying belt that Fairies often wear.  The flying belt gives Fairies the ability to fly at high speed and fly far distances.  All Fairies can fly without the flying belt, but they can't fly for long distances at high speed without a flying belt. The Fairy term for flying belt is Volantem Balteum.  

Birch trees have a unique type of fruit.  Remember that any seed-bearing structure on a tree is the fruit.  Birch tree fruit is a catkin.  A catkin looks a bit like a fuzzy cattail.  There are many tiny birch tree seeds in each catkin. 

NOTE:  There are two drawings here.  Sometimes Birch Tree Fairies wear two-piece outfits and sometimes they wear one-piece outfits.  So I drew this Fairy both ways.  These drawings, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus" button at the top of the page.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list.  New drawings are at the bottom of the lists of drawings. When coloring the drawing you choose to print... remember that birch tree bark is white with black markings.  

Teratophoneus coloring pages

 

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Teratophoneus Sub-Adult feeding

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Teratophoneus was a Tyrannosaur that lived around 10 million years BEFORE Tyrannosaurus rex.  Teratophoneus may have been an ancestor to T. rex.  The scientific name for this earlier Tyrannosaur is Teratophoneus curriei.  (Named either by or for Phil Curie the great Canadian paleontologist. 

Estimates for size go up to 26 feet or 8 meters.  That is an estimate of the total length.   A sub-adult was found in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah, USA.  (I live in Utah)  This sub-adult was smaller at around 20 feet long.  It was between 12 and 16 years old when it died.  Weight for an adult was around 1.3 tons.  

Paleontologists can figure out age at death by counting the growth rings on the bones.  There are fossilized specimens of Teratophoneus that have been found that are both younger and older than this individual was when it was found.  You can get lots of info from the same species of different ages at death.

Teratophoneus was a predator with the typical Tyrannosaur stubby arms in comparison to its overall body.  Still, those arms may have helped it stand up from laying down.  They looked useless but some paleontologists think that the typical Tyrannosaur had a lot of strength in those little arms.  What is clear is that the arms were not used to kill or eat prey.  The powerful jaws of Tyrannosaurs did the killing and eating.  The jaws could crush bone with ease.  I even have a piece of Tyrannosaur coprolite that has a piece of bone embedded in it.  

By the way, the juveniles and sub-adults appear to have been built much more gracile or lighter than full-size adult Tyrannosaurs.  This has led some paleontologists to hypothesize that the younger Tyrannosaurs were the prey chasers of the pack and the adults were the ambushers.  So the younger Tyrannosaurs would chase prey, (like this Parasaurolophus in the drawing), and the adults would jump out and do the killing bite to the neck.  

NOTE:  This drawing can be found, in printable form, by clicking on the button at the top of the page and scrolling down to the bottom of the list. for this new drawing.   Below are some older Teratophoneus drawings done and posted on previous posts.  

Teratophoneus and Young

(Some Paleontologists think that all Tyrannosaurs had feathers or at least protofeathers.)

Teratophoneus Pair

Tree Fairies - Box Elder Fairy riding a Box Elder Beetle coloring page

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More specifically it is a Box Elder Tree Fairy.

Tree Fairies - Box Elder Beetle riding on a Box Elder Beetle

 

Box Elder Tree Fairies often are friendly with Box Elder Beetles.  These insects are also called Box Elder Bugs.  Box Elder Trees are a fairly common tree for hosting a Fairy Village.  The Faires will live in and under the tree in a hollowed-out area that looks quite like a quaint European village.  

I should mention that Fairies normal size or height is around 5 inches tall.  That is just under 13 cm.  The Box Elder Fairies use their magic to go to an even smaller size when they want to go for a ride on one of their pets.  Their pets are Box Elder Bugs.  Insects have limited intelligence but Box Elder Fairies CAN communicate with Box Elder Bugs.  You could even say that the bugs are friends with the Faires.  

Box Elder Fairies often have a unique type of wing.  The Box Elder Tree Fairy's wings often LOOK like a leaflet from a Box Elder Tree.  If you don't know what a leaflet is, it is a part of the leaf that looks like a leaf.  

Let me explain... a compound leaf has several leaflets.  Box Elder Trees have compound leaves. So by having green wings that LOOK like the Box Elder tree;s leaflets... the Box Elder Tree Fairy can hide in plain sight.  Of course, Fairies have magic to help them hide as well.  But with the perfect camouflage, a Box Elder Tree Fairy needs to use little magic to hide from mortal eyes. In fact, the Box Elder Tree Fairies can change their wings to yellow-gold to look like the Box Elder leaflets in the autumn.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the button labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus" that is located at the top of the page.  Then scroll down because new drawings are at the bottom of the list.  I also want to suggest that you look up  a photo of a box elder beetle to know how to color the one in the drawing. 

 

Prophet Nephi prays for his People coloring page

 

Today's post is about the Prophet Nephi.  

The drawing is of Nephi praying for his people. 

Prophet Nephi prays for his People

In the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Christ, you read about the Prophet named Nephi.  There are several prophets with that name so to be clear... we are talking about Nephi, son of Nephi, son of Helaman, son of Helaman.  

It was around 0 or 1 AD. Nephi was praying because the wicked people planned on killing all the people of God who believed in the prophecy of Samuel The Lamanite.  So Nephi went out into the wilderness and prayed for his people.  It was probably not far into the wilderness.  In fact, it says he went out.  I pictured the prophet Nephi here kneeling by a stream, not far from town. 

In my drawing, he has just heard the voice of the Lord.  The Lord told him to "be of good cheer for tonight I come into the world..."  If you look up high on the drawing you see the Star of Bethlehem appearing.  I envisioned the New Star that Samuel the Lamanite predicted being visible even before the sun completely set.  By the way, in the drawing Nephi has just been told that the star would appear... and it has... and so Nephi is smiling. 

When the wicked people saw the new star they fell to the earth in astonishment.  In the New World, the Star of Bethlehem was apparently even brighter than it was in the Old World.  It was as light as day where the Nephites and Lamanites lived.  

You can read this story in The Book Of Mormon, Another Testament Of Christ in the book of 3 Nephi chapter 1.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the "Religious" button at the top of the page.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list.  New drawings are at the bottom of the list. 

Dolphins coloring pages.

 

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Dolphin rubs on Soft Coral

Dolphins are amazing animals.  Today we watched the BBC show Planet Earth: Blue Planet II... about ocean life and we saw Bottlenose Dolphins will rub themselves on coral.  This is a type of soft coral from the Alcyonacea order of soft coral.  These are also called sea fans and sea whips.  Like hard coral, they are living animals that feed on plankton... so they are filter feeders.  

The mother dolphin is trying to teach her calf that this is a good thing to do.  The mother dolphin is rubbing herself on the soft coral.  This soft coral has anti-inflammatory properties and anti-biotic properties.  So this may be a prophylactic treatment that dolphins figured out themselves.  I think that is amazing.   

The fish on the right is another amazing sea animal we learned about today.  It is called a Tusk Fish.  It has tusks on its upper and lower mouth.  It is amazing because it grabs a clam with its mouth and then bangs it on hard coral to open the clam up.  Then it eats the soft insides of the clam.  So this is a fish that basically uses tools. Very few animals use tools.  Using tools is one of the things that distinguish man from most other animals.  

There is a clownfish near its sea anemone and a baby shark (don't start singing) ...and there is other hard coral and an octopus in this drawing.  And of course, there is also a seagull flying by in the drawing.

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the Animals button up top.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list for the new drawing.  Below are other dolphin drawings from previous posts.  Some of these drawings are more cartoon-ish.  Older drawings are further up the list of printable drawings.  

Final note... Planet Earth: Blue Planet II is an awesome documentary series!

Dolphin Mother and Calf

Dolphin Male and Friend

Dolphin

Dolphin Female with Friend

Titanosaur Hatchling with Nose Horn coloring page

 

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Titanosaur Hatchling with Nose Horn

Recently a Titanosaur egg was purchased in the USA.  Someone had illegally imported it from Argentina, South America.  It has now been returned to South America.  It was sent through a CT scan... a form of X-ray technology.  It was discovered that the embryo dinosaur... a Titanosaur... had two very unique features.  It had a nose horn and front-facing eyes. 

This is very unusual because adult Titanosaurs have eyes that face out the side of their heads.  There are several species of Titanosaur and they are the biggest land animals to have ever walked the Earth.  It is also known that dinosaurs lined their nests with leaves.  

This egg is probably from Patagonia, although we may never know exactly where it was found.  This is the problem with illegal fossil hunters.  

The nose horn may have been used to punch out of the shell at hatching time.  Or/and it may have been used to defend itself while young.  No known species of Titanosaurs had nose horns.  But it IS possible that this is a new species where the nose horn was also a part of the adult dinosaur.  In this drawing the guard dino that was left behind after the herd moved on DOES have a horn.  

It is thought that Titanosaurs laid their eggs and abandoned them.  As mentioned above, possibly one Titanosaur from the herd kept an eye on the nesting grounds, but with around 100 eggs per nest, it is thought that the young were on their own when they hatched.  This is how Sea Turtles reproduce. 

The fact that Titanosaurs seemed to have grown at a phenomenal rate indicates that maybe the forward-facing eyes helped the young catch small prey like lizards and insects.  This would mean that Titanosaurs and maybe all Sauropods were omnivores when young.  Eating meat is a good way to get enough protein to grow fast.  

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Chica the Paint Horse

Chica is a Paint Horse and she is so beautiful that I took a photo (see below) and drew her. She belongs to a local family who are dear friends of ours.  Our daughter married their son so we are kind of family.  They certainly have welcomed us into their family.  

Paint Horses were developed with American Quarter Horses and Spotted Horse.  They also included Thoroughbred horses in developing the breed.   Paint Horses have the light-dark spotted pattern of a pinto horse and the characteristics of an American Quarter Horse. 

I have always considered Paint Horses to be very beautiful animals.  Below is the photo I took of Chica. You can color the coloring page like her or in any other colors you wish.  The printable drawing can be found by clicking on the button labeled "Animals" and scrolling down.  New drawings are at the bottom of the list.  There are also other horse drawings below the photo. These drawings are from previous posts or older posts that I will re-post today. 

Photo of Chica the Paint Horse

Mustang with Paint Pattern

Thunder the Mustang Horse in the Desert

(This is now a tamed Mustang Horse.  I have ridden him. He's owned by my nephew-in-law.)

Horse and Squirrel

Stallion in the Desert

Horse in Meadow

Tug the Ranger Horse

(This horse, Tug, is from the Ranger's Apprentice series of books.  I highly recommend the books.)

We went to Iceland a few years ago and I took some great pictures of the Icelandic Horses.

They are NOT ponies, but they are stocky and a beautiful and a very hearty breed. 

Below are some of those drawings. . . although one drawn from 

a refrigerator magnet. 

Icelandic Horse in the Snow-covered Mud

Icelandic Horse drawing from Magnet

Icelandic Horse by a Stone Wall

Icelandic Horse 1

Icelandic Horse 2