Fairy Guards

Fairy Guard Jess with Mouse Ally

The Fairy Guard works with animal allies to keep the forest and grasslands safe.  Many Fairies volunteer to serve in the Fairy Guard.  Here we see Fairy Guard Jess with a Mouse Ally.   Notice that the mouse has a tiny knife and Jess has a spear.  To help you with visualizing the size.... This spear would be shorter than a new pencil.  The Fairy Guards and their animal allies are especially involved in slowing down the spread of invasive species.  

Here in Utah they have been battling bark beetles.  They also have been dealing with some invasive thistles in the Western United States.  Invasive species threaten native species.  We have a problem with Russian Olive trees here in Utah.  They are driving out the native trees such as Box Elder Trees.  Fairies particularly care about this because they often build their villages in and under Box Elder Trees.  

NOTE:  Jess, the real Jess, is a leader in Wizarding Dayz here in Utah.  She helps put together a family friendly activity that involves cosplay and performers.  My wife and I are involved in doing a Potions Class at that event.  IF you are near Utah or in Utah on February 22 adn 23 then Wizarding Dayz is going to be held those days at the Mountain America Exposition Center in Sandy, Utah.  

As I always say, using a fine point marker as my medium, it is impossible to capture the true physical beauty of people like Jess.  The fact that she is giving her time to help put together Wizarding Dayz is evidence that she is beautiful inside and out.

NOTE:  This top drawing is the only new drawing and the printable version is found by clicking on the top buttons labeled:  All Printables     or     Fantasy Myths and Circus.   Scroll down to the bottom of the list because new drawings are at the bottom of the list.    The below are other older drawings of Fairies that are friends with animals and at times serve in the  Fairy Guard.

Fairy with Squirrel

Fairy flying with a Robin

Fairy holding a crystal ball while riding on a Unicorn

Fairy with a Praying Mantis

Fairy with  Wasp and Flowers

Karlie Kloss as a Grass Fairy

Karlie Kloss as a Grass Fairy

Grass Fairies are small but they have attitude!  They also have powerful magic.  If you have read my posts on Fairies before you will notice that I mentioned that they have what would be magic to us, but it is actually higher technology that involves both devices and mental power.  Do you see the belt she has on?  That little belt captures neutrinos and uses them for flight.  The Grass Fairies tend to be slightly built and tend to have this kind of "lacewing" type of wings.  They are also known for being able to fly very fast for short distances. 

 Like all Fairies, Grass Fairies can communicate with animals and since grazing animals eat grass, the Grass Fairies are actually often good friends with those types of animals.  You know, of course that that means horses, cattle, bison or buffalo, and of course unicorns.  Grass Fairies recognize that the grazing animals keep the grasslands healthy.  They mourned when the Woolly Mammoth were wiped out by early Man.  They also mourned when the American Bison or Buffalo were nearly wiped out.  Many Grass Fairies live in Custer State Park in South Dakota, USA, and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA.  There is a large herd of American Bison at both parks and Grass Fairies are secretly and quietly involved in helping to care for the Buffalo.  

This may surprise you, but Grass Fairies live underground.  They are also good friends with Prairie Dogs and so Grass Fairies have trained the Prairie Dogs to dig out elaborate subterranean homes near and in Prairie Dog Towns.  Since Grass Fairies, like all Fairies, can become invisible if they don't want you to see them, they are rarely seen by humans.   

A note on Karlie Kloss.  I saw her in a Superbowl ad yesterday.  Quite honestly, I had never heard of her before.  So I looked her up on Google.  She is a fascinating person.  She is a successful model as well as an entrepreneur and a philanthropist.  She has always been into technology and computers.  Her charity organization is called Kode With Klossy.   It is a STEAM organization.  It helps girls learn how to code in computer languages.  There are 50 technology camps for girls in 25 cities!

 I also admire Karlie for taking a two year break from her very successful modeling career to attend New York University.   She also trained in Classical Ballet and that may be why her runway walk is so unique.  By the way STEAM stands for Science, Technology,  Engineering, Art, & Math.  Being a retired Science Teacher and also an Artist I am pleased that there are good, financially successful people, like Karlie Kloss, helping others succeed in those areas.

I really admire this young woman.  She recently got married.  She uses her money and influence to promote STEAM education of young girls.  This matters to me for several reasons.  My wife was one of the first female Geologists.  I raised two girls and always told them that they could do anything they wanted for a career.  When  my niece asked me I advised her to go to Medical School.  That niece is in her residency as an Emergency Room Physician now.  Another niece is currently studying computer programming and electrical engineering in college.

Finally, This drawing was inspired by one of the outfits Karlie wore in a  Victoria Secret fashion show.  I clearly did not draw her in that outfit., but that outfit DID have wings and that is what made me think I could draw her as a fairy.  I want to point out that my drawing is certainly not perfect.  It is impossible to capture the true beauty of such a beautiful young woman with a fine point marker.  But I wrote about Karlie because she is far more than her physical beauty.  She is a true beauty because she is beautiful inside and out.  She is a truly nice and good person who is trying to make a difference in the world.  

NOTE:   The printable version of this drawing is located by clicking on either the     "All Printables" or the   "Fantasy, Myths and Circus" buttons.  The buttons are located up at top of the blog.  Scroll down to see this new drawing.  New drawings are always at the bottom of the list of printable drawings.  I hope you enjoy coloring Karlie the Grass Fairy.  

Kodiak Bear

Kodiak Bear Cub

(New drawing so at the bottom of the list of Animals and All Printables.)

This is a drawing inspired by the Disney movie, Brother Bear.  I love that movie and I watched it with my granddaughter today.  This is not one of the characters from the movie, but it is done in a similar style.  This bear cub is about 6-10 months old.  He is about to eat a fish, that was probably caught by his mother.  He is also sitting on a rock during the Alaskan summer.  

I first taught school in Juneau, Alaska.  These Kodiak bears can grow to be huge.  Only the Polar bear is a bigger land predator.  Kodiak males or boars can grew to be over 1,600 lbs or 726 kg.  The Polar bear can grow to be over 2,200 lbs or 997 kg.  Kodiak bears are basically Brown Bears  or Grizzly Bears.  The Kodiak is kind of a subspecies of Grizzly Bears.  Grizzly Bears and Kodiak Bears can be up to 10 feet or 3 meters tall when standing on their back legs.  Polar bears can be even taller at 11 feet or 3.4 meters.  

Grizzly mother and Cub

(This is an older drawing so it will be further up the lists.)  

By comparison, a Black bear only grows to be around 300 lbs, or 136 kg.   But some larger males have been up to 500-600 lbs. or 226-272 kg.   I will draw a Polar Bear and a Black Bear for a later post.  .   .  or maybe I will draw them tomorrow to add to this post.  If I do then I will rename this post as "Types of North American Bears."

Teratophoneus curieii

Teratophoneus Pair

Yesterday we went to the  University of Utah's   Rio Tinto   Utah Museum of Natural History.  There was a great temporary exhibit on the Maya Civilization.  They also have some amazing permanent exhibits of prehistoric mammals and dinosaurs etc.  This drawing is based on their pair of Teratophoneus Tyrannosaurs.  The fossils of this dinosaur were found in Southern Utah.  

Teratophoneus was probably and ancestor to Tyrannosaurus rex.  It lived 77 to 76 million years ago . . . while T. rex lived 62-65 million years ago.  Both species lived in the Cretaceous Period.  They had powerful bites and small arms and hands with only two claws on each hand. 

I want to note that Teratophoneus had a shorter snout than other Tyrannosaurs.  This new drawing probably should have been done with somewhat shorter snout on the dinosaur in the foreground.  

The first Teratophoneus fossils that were found were of a sub adult and it was probably about 20 feet long and weighed around 1,500 lbs.  That is about 6 meters and 680 kg.  So we are not sure of how big a full grown one was.  A couple of years ago a fossil of another Teratophoneus was found in Southern Utah in the Kaiparowits Plateau at the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.  .  .  and the fossil was airlifted to the Utah Museum of Natural History.  I do not know if it was an adult.  Maybe the paleontologists there DO know a better estimate of adult size.  

The full scientific name of this dino is Teratophoneus curriei.  The Genus name is from Greek.  Teras means monster and phoneus means murderer.   So this animal was a monster murderer.  The species name is after the famous paleontologist Phillip Currie.  He is the curator at the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta, Canada.  Dr. Brooks Britt, who helped discover and name the animal was once a student of Dr. Currie. 

 IN FACT. . . the University of Alberta offers some great courses on Paleontology via Coursera.  So in that sense I also was a student of Dr. Currie.  I highly recommend their online Coursera classes.  I took Palenotology:  Dino 101 Dinosaur Paleobiology,    Paleontology:  Theropod Dinosaurs and the Evolution of Birds,       Paleontolgy: Ancient Marine Reptiles    and Paleontology Early Vertebrate Evolution. 

Teratophoneus and Young

This is an older drawing so it will be further up on the printable drawings lists.  It is based on the idea that perhaps all the Tyrannosaurs possibly had proto-feathers.   The new drawing up top is found by clicking on either   All Printables   or   Paleontology   buttons and scrolling down to the bottom.  

T. rex vs. Didelphodon

Butterflies inspired by Butterfly Biosphere at Thanksgiving Point

Butterflies from Butterfly Biosphere

Here in Utah, USA we have just got an exhibit called the Butterfly Biosphere.  It is located at t place called Thanksgiving Point.  The butterflies are absolutely beautiful.  My favorite is the Blue Morpho.

There is an excellent movie called Blue Butterfly that is based on true events.  A boy who is suffering from cancer goes to the tropics to see a Blue Morpho.  In reality he did see the Blue Morpho and believe it or not his cancer went into remission.  The boy's real name is David Marenger.  He is now an adult and he is a motivational speaker.   His story is all about how the beauties that God put on this earth for us to enjoy can inspire and heal us.  I truly think that getting out into Nature is a healing experience.  For me it is a psychologically healing experience if nothing else. 


My above drawing is more inspired by the butterflies from the Butterfly Biosphere that we saw at the exhibit day before yesterday.  The below following photos were taken there.  Remember that the printable version of my drawing is found by clicking on the   Animals   or    All Printables     buttons up top.  The new drawing is at the bottom of the list of drawings.  

Blue Morpho

Blue Morpho underside

Small Black, red and white butterfly

Mottled butterfly on Leaf 

Black, white and red Butterfly

Butterfly on Colorful Plate

Kangaroos in the Australian Bush a salute to: Crikey! It's the Irwins

Kangaroos in the Australian Bush

Kangaroos are like deer in North America.  Of course the kangaroos live in Australia.  Kangaroos are marsupials.  So the babies are the size of a jelly bean or about 1/2 inch or about a centimeter long.  After they are born they crawl along their mother's fur to the pouch where they can nurse and develop.  

There are several species of kangaroos.  The Eastern Grey Kangaroo is the biggest at 91 lbs or about 41 kg.  Next is the Antilopine Kangaroo at 45 lbs or about 20 kg.   The Red Kangaroo is about 63 lbs or around 29 kg.  The Western Grey Kangaroo is the smallest at 56 lbs. or about 25 kg.   The Wallaby is related to the kangaroo.  They are much smaller at only about 9 lbs. or 4 kg.  

I based part of this drawing on a scene from the excellent TV show that we love on Animal Planet called:  "Crickey!  It's The Irwins.  The Irwins run the Australian Zoo in Queensland Australia.  I plan on doing more drawings from their show.  We binge watched the show last night on Animal Planet.  I hope we can go to their zoo when we go to Australia in July!  We hope to go to Australia, if our health will allow us to. 

The printable versions of this drawing are found on the top buttons on this page.  Click on either
All Printables   or   Animals.   Scroll down to the bottom of the list of drawings.  New drawings are at the bottom of the lists.

I want to note that this blog is non profit.  There are no ads and no fees to print a coloring page.  You DO need to have access to a printer though.  No one makes money on this blog.  It is what I started to do when I became disabled.  I guess you who follow my blog have noticed that sometimes there is a break from posts for a while.  I have severe health problems that sometimes get in the way of drawing or typing on the computer.  In fact the problems make it impossible to use a computer or draw at all sometimes.  Sorry for the inconvenience. 

All drawings are Copyright Robin A. Lyman 2016-2019.  Some drawings date back to 2008.  

Fairy on a Mushroom

Fairy sitting on a Mushroom

Fairies love animals.  Here we see a fairy greeting a snail.  The fairy is resting on a Amanita muscara, a red mushroom with white spots.  The spots are actually much smaller in this red mushroom.  It is native to the Northern Hemisphere but it has been accidentally introduced into the Southern Hemisphere as well. 

Fairies are fluent in several languages and you may be surprised that they study Nature.  They refer to plants and animals by the often Latin and or Greek scientific names.  By the way, a Fairy would tell you that this type mushroom is classified as poisonous if you eat it.  

This drawing is based on a photo from Facebook. The model is actually not a fairy, she is one of my former science students and she was also my teaching assistant.  She was an awesome worker too.  She is now a talented poet.