Mikelia the Mermaid, Bia the Damselfly Fairy, & Abigalia the Swallowtail Fairy

 Welcome to my Free Coloring Pages Blog

I was in a lot of pain yesterday so I drew a lot.

Below are three drawings of beautiful young women I met recently. 

Drawing people is way more challenging than drawing dinosaurs or animals. 

So because it is more challenging I am more distracted from the severe pain I am experiencing.

So thank you to you three beautiful and kind young ladies.  

Drawing you was the best medicine to distract me from the pain. 

I had been severely tempted to take narcotic pain meds, which I DO have on hand

for when the pain is excruciating.  But taking Tylenol and drawing you three

did the trick.  I was once very dependent on narcotics for my pain so 

I started drawing more and started this blog to help distract me. The pain meds 

had been changing my personality.  

So, today's first drawing is of a Mermaid. 

The second is of a Damselfly Fairy.

The third...

Meikelia the Mermaid

You may remember that I drew Meikelia previously, as a Water Nymph.  I am sure you are aware that Mermaids can transform into humans with legs when they go on land.  Well, a Mermaid can also turn into a Water Nymph.  Mermaids prefer marine or ocean environments.  But some Mermaids like fresh water as well.  in order to go into the freshwater of lakes and rivers and streams the Mermaid changes into a Water Nymph.  Water Nymphs look much more human-like, they just have webbed feet and sometimes webbed fingers.  When Water Nymphs go onto land they use magic to transform their webbed toes and fingers into more human-like digits.  Both Mermaids and Water Nymphs tend to be very beautiful sentient beings... meaning they are much like humans and Fairies with very high intelligence.  In fact, Faires, Merpeople, and Water Nymphs are actually types of humans. Meikelia is no exception to the beauty rule.  She is one of the most beautiful women I have ever met.  She spends much of her time in mortal form working on training people in water sports.  As you can see, she really loves doggies.  She is seen here with her own doggy she has in the Mortal World.  Her doggy likes to go out on a small rubber raft to hang out with Meikelia when his master is swimming in a lake or in the ocean.  

Bia the Damselfly Fairy

This is Bia the Damselfly Fairy.  She is a beautiful Fairy with lovely dark eyes and dark hair. Bia loves damselflies but she also loves dragonflies.  Both damselflies and dragonflies are in Order Odonata.  In their larva stage, damselflies are predatory small water animals that feed on other larvae, such as mosquito larvae. Damselfly larvae have gills on their tail and live in freshwater for from 2 months to 3 years.  When they emerge as adult damselflies they are again predators of mosquitos.  Dragonflies are very similar in their lifetime.  So if you see damselflies around be grateful.  

In this drawing, we see Bia in Fairy size (5 inches or 12.7 cm.)  ...standing in very shallow water with 2 friendly damselflies nearby.  She is standing where the edge of the river has flooded out some grass that was on the bank.    

Abigalia the Swallowtail Fairy

Abigalia is a Swallowtail Fairy.  She is a lovely young Fairy who loves butterflies.  Of course, she especially loves Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies.  She was born with wings that look a great deal like those of the Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly.  

On this Swallowtail Fairy drawing feel free to color in the black areas more fully.  FYI the Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly has black markings and stripes on yellow wings.  Abigalia's wngs should probably be colored the same way.  But of course, it is up to you.  Also, some Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies have yellow-orange or outright orange wings.  I should mention that the printable pages scan in PDF files so the drawing lines etc. will be darker. 

NOTE:  These drawings are available, in printable form, by clicking on the button labeled: "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list.  New drawings are found at the bottom of the correct list. 

Dinosaur & Dragon Coloring Pages for Children

Hello everyone.  I have not posted much for a couple of days because I am having 

a lot of post-surgical pain.  My drug of choice is drawing pictures.

Drawing distracts me from the pain. so I have been drawing a lot and not posting the drawings yet. 

So now I am going to try to post some recent drawings.  First some dinosaur and dragon drawings. 

There is some thought that the idea of dragons originated with ancient peoples 

finding dinosaur, plesiosaur, and pterosaur fossils. Then they put two and two together 

and came up with the idea for dragons. It is said that the Temple of Athena in Greece had 

a Plesiosaur skull on the altar.  That supports this theory. 

Below I will be posting the dino and dragon drawings and 

writing just a little bit about the animal.in the drawing. 

The Dino drawings are found, in printable form, by clicking on the "Paleontology" button.  

Then scroll to the bottom of the Mesozoic portion of the list. 

The Dragon drawings are found, in printable form, by clicking on the button 

labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus. Again, scroll to the bottom of the list. 

Therozinosaurus searching for Food

Therozinosaurus was a dino oddity.  It was a Theropod that had evolved to eat plants.  It had huge meter-long sword-like claws for defense, but it was an herbivore.  It was feathered and it has been said that Therozinosaurus looked like a giant half-plucked turkey.  It weighed 11,000 lbs or almost 5,000 kg.  Therozinosaus were small or up to 40 feet or 12 meters long and lived in the early to late Cretaceous Period about 145-70 million years ago.  This weird type of animal lived in Asia & North America. 

Daspletosaurus at an Overlook

Daspletosaurus was probably an ancestor to T. rex.  It was a Tyrannosaur that lived 70-66 million years ago.  It appears that Daspletosaurus was an ancestor to T. rex but this smaller Tyrannosaur lived concurrently with T. rex as well.  Daspletosuaurs were up to 30 feet or 9 meters long.  It weighed up to 8,400 lbs.  That is 3,810 kg.  

Brachiosaurus with Stripes

Brachiosaurus was a large Sauropod dinosaur.  It was 82 feet or 25 meters long.  It weighed 80 metric tons.  It stood 50 feet or 22 meters tall.  It clearly feasted on leaves high up in the trees. When I was a boy it was the biggest known dinosaur.  Now other Brachiosaurs have been found that were even bigger, Griaffatitan and Sauroposeidon come to mind.  Sauroposeidon was 60 feet tall. Brachiosaurs were late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous Sauropods. 

Albertosaurus Mommy with her Chicks

Albertosaurus was a large Tyrannosaur that, like Daspletosaurus, was possible an ancestor to T. rex.  It was 30 feet long and lived 100 million to 66 million years ago. 

Mother Dragon carries her Wyrmling

If crocodiles carry their young in their mouth it makes sense that dragons would do the same and dinosaurs may have done the same as well.  One name for a baby dragon is a wyrmling.

Wyvern Dragon flies over the Kingdom

A Wyvern is a dragon with two legs and its arms attached to its wings. 

Drake Dragon flies over the Kingdom

Drakes are dragons with four legs. 

James Barnet Cole rescues Lucy Ward story and coloring page and some other Pioneer coloring pages

Hi there.  Today is a holiday in Utah.  We celebrate the arrival of the Mormon PIoneers to the Salt Lake Valley.  My ancestor was among this first group.  His name was Amasa Lyman. Later my female ancestor from England pulled a handcart to get to Utah, but she was caught in a terrible storm.  

"Mormons," are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  Many of us have ancestors who were forced out of their homes in Missouri and then Illinois.  Those saints had to cross the plains of North America to find refuge in the mountains of the West.  

These are all drawings from previous posts.  I did not do any new drawings for Pioneer Day this year.

 James Barnet Cole rescues Lucy Ward

Lucy Ward was a 10-year-old girl when her father died, in England.  Before his death, Lucy's father had given her a beautiful green veil or scarf.  A while after she lost her husband, Lucy's mother joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  All the rest of the family joined too.  The converts were encouraged to travel to Zion.  But before the family could immigrate to Zion (Zion was Utah.) her sister and her mother died.  (Lucy had two brothers.).  Lucy was only around 22 years old when she took a ship to New York City.  There she worked in a millinery (hat making) shop for a year in order to earn the money to travel to Utah to join the Saints.  

Lucy traveled to Iowa, USA, by train and she joined the Willie Martin Handcart Company  This company ran into trouble because they left Iowa late.  The company ran into winter storms and eventually was stranded in the Wyoming wilderness.  

Lucy had a warm wool cloak with her that she had brought with her from England.  She cut off the bottom of the cloak when the early winter storm was doing its worst and she needed some way to tie it on to keep her head and face warm.  She remembered the beautiful green veil that her father had bought her and she took it out of the handcart and she tied it around the piece of fur coat that she had cut off.  Basically, the green veil was holding the fur on her head and against the sides of her face.  Doing this was probably significant in Lucy's survival because we lose a lot of heat through our heads.  Many other members of the company died.   The ends of the green veil were allowed to blow in the wind.  

James Barnet Cole was from one of the first families that joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints years before.  He had crossed the plains via a wagon with a team of probably oxen.  James answered the call of the Prophet Brigham Young to go rescue the handcart pioneers in Wyoming.  On the way, he had a dream.  In the dream, he saw a beautiful woman with a green veil on.  She said to him that if he rescued her, she would be his bride.  

In the morning James woke up and told his traveling partner about the dream.  This partner was William Kimball.  Brother Kimball told Brother Cole that there were no beautiful women waiting for him, only starving saints.   It was a very challenging trip to get through the snow to the stranded handcart pioneers,.  In fact, rations or food for the Willie Handcart Company had been cut several times and the people were both freezing and starving.  

When James Cole's wagon came over the ridge the members of the stranded handcart party stood and cheered.  Lucy stood up and looked toward the rescue wagons.  The cold wind caught the ends of her veil and blew them in the air.  William Kimball turned to James Cole and said, "Well James, there's your dream girl!"  

James drove his wagon, full of supplies, up to Lucy.  He looked down at her, standing with her frozen feet in the snow, and he invited her to get into the wagon.  Lucy, always a proper lady, said, "I don't know you."  But she soon got used to him.  They were married three days later and stayed the winter in Fort Bridger.  She could not travel on to Salt Lake City because her feet had truly been frozen.  She lost all ten of her toes.  

James and Lucy would go on to settle in or near Ogden Utah and have 11 children.  They were faithful members of the Church until their deaths.  James would die in a horse accident 20 years after they met and Lucy would live as a widow for 44 years.  At the time of HER death at age 87, she had 156 descendants.   

I am one of their later descendants.  I think we need to be aware of how much our ancestors went through to get us to this wonderful modern age of our world.  In fact, Lucy's grandaughter tells of how Lucy taught her grandchildren to appreciate being able to eat an orange in a state far from where the oranges were grown. 

NOTE:  This drawing was done in pencil, and it was not inked in with a pen.  It can be found in printable form by clicking on one of two buttons up top:   . . . . All Printables. . . . or .  . . . .
. . . . . . . . Religious.    As I mentioned, this is a re-posting of this story and drawing in honor of Pioneer Day. 

I will be posting some other drawings of pioneers below, including some of my ancestors.  If the older posts, those at the top of the list, do not print just email me and I can grant you access as soon as I see the email. 

Amasa M. Lyman

(as a young man)

Amasa Mason Lyman

(later and living in Utah)

Pioneers closing the Plains of Wyoming

Handcart Pioneer Family

Handcart Pioneer in the Snow

Handcart Pioneers crossing the Plains

(walking uphill)

Alexisia a Female Rider of Rohan

 Welcome to my blog.  My computer went on the fritz for a couple of days and I was afraid it was unrepairable.  It was a worn-out battery.  I am posting this with no battery in the laptop computer. . . but my computer is plugged into the wall.  I will order a new battery tomorrow. 

Today I will be making 2 posts.  THIS post is of a Female Rider of Rohan.

Alexisia a Female Rider of Rohan

Female Riders of Rohan are a small but unique group.  They included Eowyn, who broke the barrier to female riders.  She proved her worth by slaying the Witch King of Andmar, the lead Ring Wraith. After Eowyn's feat of courage, there were more women of Rohan who were accepted into the Riders of Rohan. 

Alexisisa is gifted with horses, as you would assume.  But she is also gifted with all her pets and animals.  She has dogs that are crazy about her.  She helps other village members when their animal needs special care.  

As an artist that works in this coloring page level of drawing I want to say that it is impossible to capture the true physical beauty of a person or Elf or Fairy with this medium.  However, I do the best I can.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, will be found by clicking on the button labeled:  "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus."  Then scroll to the bottom of the list.  New songs are at the end of the list.  The printable pages are PDF files so they print darker and more clearly.  I will be posting some drawings of Pioneers next.  

Hannia Azuria the She-Elf Warrior coloring page

 This is my second post today.  So, of course, this post is at the top of my blog.

The first post is my drawing of Barbaridactylus so it is the post below this one.

This post is a drawing of a Fairy She-Elf Warrior. 

Hannia the She-Elf Warrior

Hannia Azuria is one of the Blue-Elf warriors.  Blue-Elves love being near the water or even IN the water.  More specifically they love lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, etc.  So they love freshwater.  Blue Elves are known to be great swimmers.  They are not merpeople, so they can not breathe water, but they are capable of holding their breath for 20 minutes.  

She-Elf warriors help protect the areas around the Elf cities and villages.  They are powerful warriors, however, they only fight when necessary.  That rule does not apply to how they deal with dark creatures like orcs, trolls, etc. 

Hannia, and most Blue Elves, prefer an Elvish short-sword.  A large sword would get in the way of swimming.  Hannia is seen here near a river.  Her armor is made of mithril so it is quite light, therefore she can go into the water without sinking to the bottom.  Traditional armor makes swimming impossible.  Mithril is a type of silvery metal that is incredibly strong so when made into armor it is very thin - which makes the armor very light.  Mithril does not float, but armor made of mithril is perfectly safe for swimming.  Mithril is closely related to Beryllium, only Mithrill is not brittle. 

Hannia Azuria is seen here standing behind a large boulder that is next to a river.  If you could see her legs you would see that they are armor free.  She also does not carry a shield..  Blue Elves spend so much time in the water that they are known to not wear leg armor the free their legs for swimming.  "

A final note on Hannia Azuria, Hannia means "a place to rest or be happy."  "Azuria" is a stunning Aqua-Blue color.  I am sure you know that Elves are beautiful people, although not mortal.  Blue Elves are particularly beautiful, even for Elves.  I will add that the coloring page format of art can not capture the full physical beauty of such beautiful people. 

NOTE: This drawing is found in printable form  by clicking on the button labeled "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus."  Then scroll down to the bottom of the list of drawings.  Click on the title and you will get a printable coloring page.  

Barbaridactylus the Pterosaur with Antlers coloring page

 Welcome to my blog.  There will be two posts today. 

This first one is of a very unusual Pterosaur 

called Barbaridactylus.  

Barbaridactylus the Pterosaur with Antlers

This Pterosaur, named Barbaridactylus, had a 15-foot wingspan.  That is 4,6 meters wide.  It lived in what is now Morocco in North Africa.  It was a fish eater.  Its most unusual feature was a very long crest that looked almost like antlers.  Of course, the crest wasn't REALLY antlers.  The large crest was probably for species identification and possibly for males to attract females.  But I don't think they have found female Barbaridactylus with smaller crests or no crest.  

In this drawing we see three Barbaridactylus heading out to sea for some fishing.  They have just flown over a seaside cliff that is part of a small peninsula that juts out into the ocean. 

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the "Paleontology" button and scrolling to near the bottom of the drop-down menu.  You will need to go to the bottom of the "Mesozoic Life" section.  Then click on the title and you will get a printable page that scanned much darker than the version of the picture on this page of my blog.  Have fun coloring!

Ouranosaurus The Sail-Back Dinoaur.

 `Welcome to my free coloring pages blog.  

Today I am posting a drawing of a unique dinosaur 

called Ouranosaurus.  The drawing also includes

a relatively unknown Pterosaur. 

Ouranosaurus and Camposipterus

Let me tell you something that may surprise you:  A few years ago we found the skeleton of this large Hadrosaur or Duck-billed dinosaur Ouranosaurus in Venice, of all places.  

Ouranosaurus from Venice Museum

Ouranosaurus was 27 feet or around 8 meters long. It lived in the early Cretaceous Period in what is now Nigeria, and Cameroon.  It may have been prey for Spinosaurus since both lived in Africa, however, Spinosaurus ate primarily fish and would only go after land prey when the fishing was poor.  Both Ouranosaurs and Spinosaurus had what is called a "sailback"   They may have used the sail as temperature control.  So they may have turned to face one large and flat side of their sail into the sun to warm up and turned their tail or face to the sun for the air to cool their blood via using the sail like a kind of radiator. 

The  Pterosaur in the drawing is a lesser-known Pterosaur with a wingspan of around 10 feet or 3 meters.   This Pterosaur's Genus is Camposipterus.  SOME of its fossilized bones were found in England of the United Kingdom.  Most of the fossils were skull pieces and pieces of the jaw.  So the wingspan is an estimate.  The teeth were still in a lot of the jaws and the teeth in the front were protruding for snagging fish.  So Camposipterus was a fishing Pterosaur like all or most Pterosaurs were.  

NOTE:  This drawing is found by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology" and scrolling to the bottom of the list of drawings.  I will also include 2 drawings of Ouranosaurus from previous posts.  The second was drawn and posted back when we got back from our trip to Europe 4 years ago. 

Ouranosaurus and Cronopia

Ouranosaurus