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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Today's new drawing is 

an Excavator by a 

Date Palm Tree.

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

 

Today's new drawing is a 

Broad-Tailed Hummingbird.

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