Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Christmas 2024 Coloring Pages

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

The first ones were unpublished until tonight...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



Angel appears to Family of Shepherds

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



Sugarplum Fairy with Sugarplums

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


Baby Clarice the Reindeer toy 

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



Rudolph the Young Reindeer Fawn

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

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



Monday, December 23, 2024

Portrait of Joseph Smith Jr. coloring page


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Today's new drawing celebrates the birthday of 

Joseph Smith Jr. - the Prophet.


Joseph Smith portrait

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

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

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

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



Saturday, December 21, 2024

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

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

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

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

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



M3 Stuart Light Tank

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

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



USS Salt Lake City Heavy Cruiser (CA-25)

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

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

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


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



Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Two New Sauropod Dinosaurs coloring pages

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This blog has over 3000 of my coloring page drawings.

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




Gnatalie the Sauropod Dinosaur


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

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

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

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



Qunkasaura

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

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

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

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

Monday, December 16, 2024

Santa Feeding Baby Rudolph coloring page

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All of the drawings were done by me... except for about 7 done by 

a grandniece and grandnephew. 

Today's new drawing is of Santa from when Rudolph was born in the spring...

many years ago.



Santa Feeding Baby Rudolph


Most of us love the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer children's program. I am one of those who love that movie.  I was born with a birth defect so I felt different much of my life.  I had a tracheotomy for 8 years when I was a child and I have one now as well.  So the story of Rudolph being different and yet winning the day was wonderful to me. 

However, I have it on good authority that Santa NEVER rejected Rudolph for being different.  Santa respected variety in living things - people, elves, animals, and Christmas trees.  So this drawing shows Santa feeding Rudolph some corn to help cheer the young reindeer up.  You see, Rudolph WAS bullied.  I can relate to that too.  But my parents and friends helped me feel like I was able to do anything.  So I swam with my trach cored.  I herded cows, burned weeds on our farm, and fed the pigs.  I played drums in the school and later the BYU band.  So I am a big fan of the Rudolph story, but I am certain Santa was kind to Rudloph, just like my friends Kurt, Mike, Jim, Greg, Julie, Natalie, Richard etc. were to me.  

So now you see why I drew Santa being kind to the young Rudolph.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled Holidays.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the Christmas section.  IF you are accessing this page during the 2024 Christmas Holidays season then this drawing will be at or near the bottom of the Christmas section of the Holiday drawings.  Click on the title and you will get the printable coloring page.  

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Joseph holding Baby Jesus coloring page

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Today's new drawing is of Joseph the husband of Mary and step-father of Jesus.



Joseph holds Baby Jesus


I think we should recognize Joseph for his greatness.  He was the husband of Mary and the stepfather of Jesus.  He raised Jesus and of course, he also saved Jesus' life.  When Herod was going to kill all the children of a certain age Joseph was warned in a dream to flee to Egypt.  He did so and took his family thus saving Jesus from death,  Joseph was also kind enough not to publicly shame Mary when she became pregnant with the Savior.  And when the angel told him that Mary's baby was the Messiah... Joseph believed,  Then he finalized their marriage and clearly cared for Mary.  He waited for marital sexual intimacy but I suspect he was kind and caring to Mary. He was also clearly a good earthly father to Jesus - even though Jesus was not Jeseph's biological son.   Later Joseph and Mary had children.  I drew Joseph rather stout and muscular.  Not overweight, just powerfully built.  After all, Joseph was a carpenter and would have been buff from lifting heavy beams, boards, etc.   In conclusion, I would say that Joseph is one of my Biblical heroes.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled Holidays.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list of Christmas drawings to find this printable picture.  By the way, this drawing will be at the bottom of the list IF you are accessing this site around Christmas 2024.

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Brittnia the Cruise Mermaid with Sandpiper

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Today's new drawing is of a Cruise Mermaid named Britania. 



Brittnia the Cruise Mermaid with Sandpiper

Some Mermaids and Mermen like to hang out near cruise ships.  They even may go into mortal form to go on a cruise.  Then they will sneak off the ship for a swim in the ocean.  The problem of getting back on ship is easier than you would think.  Like Fairies, Merpeople have magical powers including a self-levitation charm that can get them back onboard the cruise ship.  Their magic also helps them go into a Mermaid or Merman outfit when they hit the ocean.  And they conjure up their mortal-style clothing upon returning onboard the ship. 

By the way, Merpeople are very intelligent and have been known to study at mortal universities.  Frequently they get a PhD or PsyD or EdD etc.  Brittaia here is one of those Mermaids.  But she DOES like going on cruises.  Her income in the mortal world is useful for paying for the cruises.  In fact, going on cruises is how she goes home to visit family off the coast of Brittany, France.  

Sandpipers are a common bird near the shores of both ocean and inland lakes.  They have long legs and pretty coloring on their feathers.  They hang out on sandy beaches and they have a long narrow beak that sounds like they are piping, hence the name "sandpiper." 

NOTE: This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the drop-down menu.  This title will be at the bottom of the list of titles.  Have fun coloring!    

Friday, December 6, 2024

Nativity 2024 coloring page

Welcome or welcome back. This is my free coloring pages blog with over 3000 drawings that I have done for you to print and color.  A few drawings were done by a grandniece and grandnephew as well. Today's new drawing is of the Birth of Jesus Christ or the Nativity.  I try to do a Nativity drawing each year.  In fact, earlier this year I did a drawing of Jesus in a wooden manger. 



Nativity 2024

Jesus was born in a stable. His bed was a manger.  Back then sometimes caves were used to stable animals so this drawing is of the Nativity if the stable was in a cave... presumably by the inn.  It is amazing to think that the creator of our world was born in such a humble circumstance.  

Jesus was born to teach us to love one another, obey His commandments, and to be kind.  He also was born to pay the eternal price for our sins.  This made it possible for us all to be cleansed from our sins so that we can one day return to live with our Heavenly Parents.  

If you read the New Testament of the Holy Bible you will see that Jesus was kind to the disenfranchised and to people who were outcasts of society.  That teaches us a powerful and important lesson. We have been watching The Chosen TV show and it has been very educational for us to see how Jesus ministered to the outcasts of society.  He also had a lot to say to those who persecuted others and took advantage of their fellowmen.  Yet He opens the possibility of repentance to all.  


NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the "Holidays" button and scrolling down to the bottom of the "Christmas" section.  Have fun coloring and remember that Jesus IS the reason for the season.  



Thursday, December 5, 2024

Nutcracker Coloring Page

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There are over 3000 drawings that I have done that you can print. 

Today's new drawing is of a Nutcracker...

 based on the Nutcracker Ballet.

I took my grandkids to that ballet two nights ago. 

It was done by the Cache Valley Civic Ballet and it was wonderful!



Nutcracker


The Nutcracker is an amazing story that was made into a ballet. The original story was called The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. You can buy decorative "nutcrackers" in many places.  They are associated with Christmas.  By the way, the original story was written in German.  The ballet music was written by Taichowsky, a Russian composer. Yet the Nutcracker Ballet is beloved in many parts of the world. 

Likewise, there are so many different versions of Nutcracker soldiers.  I will be posting more drawings or coloring pages of versions of the Nutcracker.  I have 6 different Nutcrackers in my home.  Each one is unique.  Since this is my first Nutcracker drawing I have labeled it simply "Nutcracker."

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled "Holidays."  Then scroll down to the Christmas section, and scroll to the BOTTOM of the Christmas section of drawing titles.  If you are accessing this in December of 2024 then this drawing's title will be found at the bottom of the Christmas titles. 

Monday, December 2, 2024

Elf Princess, Dwarf, and Hobbit coloring page

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Today's new drawing is of an Elf Princess, a Dwarf, and a Hobbit. 



Elf Princess, a Dwarf, and Hobbit

This is a drawing of an Elf Princess in her armor.  A Dwarf is also seen in his chainmail armor.  The smaller person between them is a Hobbit with a small sword.  These are a team of Dragon Whisperers.  Dragon Whisperers are able to communicate meaningfully with Dragons.  Not all Dragons are evil and malicious.  This is a young Dragon that is a Wyvern.  Now, these Wyverns are sometimes vicious, but when trained young they become far more docile. 

The Elven Princess is named Tiffania, the Dwarf is named Joshiah, and the Hobbit is named Cedrico.

NOTE:  When I draw particularly beautiful magical people I must emphasize that this medium is not conducive to capturing their full beauty.  However, I will say that this group of Dragon Whisperers are some of the most beautiful creatures I have ever met.  They are not just beautiful on the outside, they are very beautiful on the inside.  This is a far more important type of beauty. 

To get to the printable version of this drawing click on the Fantasy, Myths, and Circus button.  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list of drawings.  Have fun coloring!