Eleanor the Fairy Queen

Eleanor the Fairy Queen with her Mini Dragon

Eleanor is one of the Fairy Queens.  She was recently asked. by the High Fairy Queen, to relocate from Germany to reorganize the fairies on the East Coast of North America.  She, like all fairies, is multiligual.  Of course that is for the rare occasion where fairies need to speak with or interact with humans.  Eleanor actually prefers the name Ellie.  She has a great friendship with the Dragon Community.  (Yes there are some dragons who are not evil, but rather, they are both good and helpful.)  Queen Ellie has a team of the good Mini-Dragons that serve her.  Her Mini-Dragons can carry messages and gather information.  You have probably never seen either a fairy or Mini-Dragon.  This is because they are usually invisible to the non-magic community.   This drawing is from a time in the Early Spring when the leaves were just starting to come out.  The Marigold bush was an early bloomer.  Notice that Queen Ellie is wearing a tiara. 

Things with Wings

Today's theme is Things with Wings!  The new drawings include fairies, a dragon, an angel, etc.  The drawings I am including from previous posts include flying dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, (they are NOT the same thing.), birds, (also called Avian Dinosaurs), etc.

Angel playing Harp

I saw a beautiful young woman playing harp at the hospital today.  I took a photo and thought of doing this drawing.  Obviously she was not dressed up as an angel.  But I liked my idea.  Her music was very beautiful too.  I did not get her name or her permission to post the harpist photo.  By the way, I don't believe angels have wings.  I believe they are dressed in white and often surrounded by brilliant light, but no wings.   IF I can find the harpist and get her permission I will post the photo of her playing.  I also plan on drawing her much more accurately.  This angel drawing really does not look like her.  But I did do the drawing very loosely based on the photo of her that I took.  

Butterflies at Shenandoah National Park

Butterflies photo from Shenandoah National Park

This is the photo I took when my wife and I visited Shenandoah National Park. It inspired the drawing of the two  butterflies on the thistle flowers.  Shenandoah National Park is a very beautiful place.  

Fairy greets a Unicorn

Flower Fairy visits a Rose

(If fairies were or are real, I would imagine that they would come in all shapes, sizes, and races.  

The traditional idea of all fairies being drawn tiny. super thin. and petite doesn't sit well with me.

  I truly believe that beauty in people or fairies for that matter...comes in all forms.)

Dragon with Smoking Nostrils

The dragon is not smoking tobacco or something.  He is just creating his own internal smoke.  The idea, scientifically speaking, is that maybe dragons had a way of  making methane inside their bodies.  Or maybe even they made or make Hydrogen molecules.  This would help make dragons like a Hydrogen balloon.  So they would be lighter than air.  Hydrogen is VERY non-dense.  

(This is the last of the new drawings... So these top drawings are found at the bottom of the lists.

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THE FOLLOWING DRAWINGS ARE FROM PREVIOUS POSTS:

Microraptor flying through the Forest

Elagant Fairy and Baby Dragon

Bald Eagle fishing for King Salmon

Pteranodon chick on a Ledge

Auburn Fairy

American Robin

I had to use this one. . . my name is Robin....and I'm an American.

Dinos for small kids to Color

Spinosaurus taking a Swim

These drawings are for young kids to color.  Most of them do not have too much detail.   But they do have SOME detail.  The printable versions are found by clicking on the correct button above.  They are all new drawings so scroll down to the bottom of the correct list.   

First is Spinosaurus.  Spinosaurus was a swimming dinosaur that lived near the water. . . probably rivers and lakes.  They ate fish, like the pictured sawfish.   Some sawfish were much bigger than this one.   The snout of a Spinosaur had motion sensors to detect fish in muddy river water.   The large finger claw was like a sushi knife.  Although Spinosaurus was the biggest carnivore among the dinosaurs, it had relatively weak jaws.  It cut its food up.  

T. rex Mommy with her Two Chicks

Egg shell from Portugal indicate that baby Theropods, like T. rex, were hatched with sharp teeth for eating  but clearly without the ability to take care of themselves.  Paleontologist Robert Bakker says that when he thinks of T. rex he thinks of tenderness. . . because they were clearly good parents.   

Lythronax with Cynodont Friend

Lythronax was a type of Tyrannosaur that lived around 80 million years ago in what is now Southern Utah.   Its name means "Gore King".  It was around 26 feet or 8 meters long.   It may have had protofeathers as shown here.  I have seen friendship between animals of different species.  Like our dog when I was a teen was named Buck.  He, Buck, was best buddies with our female Tabby cat named Junior.   So I imagined that maybe a young Theropod like Lythronax could have become friends with a Cynodont.  Cynodonts were an early mammal that lived in the dinosaur times.  

Triceratops Coming at You

This Triceratops is a drawn with a bit more detail.  Triceratops was the largest and last of the Ceratopsians dinosaurs.  It had eyebrow horns as long as broom handles.  Its head was attached by a joint that allowed it to swivel hits head around to presumably fight off  predators like T. rex and to spar with other dinosaurs of its own kind.   The "eye spots" on the frill are an inferred trait.   Some modern animals have eye spots to make the animals look bigger.   So some paleontologists infer that the frill on a Ceratopsian or horned dinosaur would be a good place for eye spots to evolve.  

Jesus in the Old World and in the New World

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Jesus in the Old World near Jerusalem

All Christians believe that Jesus lived in the Old World.  His existence is clearly a historical fact.  Christianity changed the world in so many ways.  Jesus taught people to love their enemies, repent of our sins, and that He came to Earth to pay the eternal punishment price for our sins.  All of us sin.  We need the cleansing power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ to make our repentance possible.  In the Old World Jesus was killed and yet after three days he was resurrected (which means he came back to life).  After His resurrection He taught his disciples in the Old World for 40 days and told them to go forth and preach the Gospel.  He then ascended to Heaven.

We members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints believe that after his resurrection and ascencion, Jesus Christ visited the people in the the New World. . .  In fact we believe he also visited people in many other parts of the world.   Some "Mormon" archaeologists think that this visit of Christ (that is found in the Book of Mormon) happened in Mesoamerica.   Others think it took place in the Mississippi Valley.   Some think it happened in the Yucatan Peninsula.  Some think it took place in South America.  There is some more of the newer theory about the Book of Mormon lands being located in the Mississippi River Valley area that you can look up online.  I found it under:   "Wayne May-Book of Mormon Archaeology of North America"

Wherever this amazing visit took place, we believe it DID happen.  We know that Jesus said he had other people to visit too.  So I would not be surprised if Jesus visited several parts of the Americas and even people on other continents.   We believe that Jesus is the god of the whole Earth.  It makes sense that after His resurrection He would visit with many of His people in many parts of the world.  

Jesus in the New World somewhere

Dinosaur Parenting

Dinosaur Parenting is something that can be inferred by the fossil evidence.  We are pretty certain that both Ceratopsians like Triceratops and Theropods like Allosaurus were parents who cared for their young.   On the other hand, the huge Sauropods quite possibly only allowed their young to join the herd after the young were partly grown.  Kind of a sea turtle mentality. . . lay the eggs and leave em.   

The first two drawings are new and so they will be at the bottom of the correct list.  Use the top buttons to find them.  Also, older drawings are further up the list.   

Triceratops Parenting

Allosaurus Parenting

Argentinosaurus at Nesting Site

Allosaurus caring for her Chick

Triceratops Mother and Two Calves

Bowmouth Guitarfish

Bowmouth Guitarfish

The Bowmouth Guitarfish is a beautiful ray.  It LOOKS like a cross between a shark and a ray  but it is a ray that looks a lot like a shark.  I photographed one from the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Utah.  It is in the big tank with sharks and sea turtles.  I included a Unicornfish in the drawing because there are Unicornfish in the tank as well.  The drawing includes sea worms and an electric eel.

Both sharks and rays are called cartilage  fish or cartilaginous fish because instead of hard bones they have bones made up of cartilage.  This class of fish have hard teeth so they are found often.  The class is called Class:  Condrichthyes.  The Bowmouth Guitarfish has very unique teeth it uses for crushing shells of shellfish.  It also eats small fish.

Jaw from a Bowmouth Guitarfish
Notice the amazing patter of the teeth.

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Sea Turtle at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium 

The little boy is my grandson.  

Apatosaurus

Apatosaurus Herd Migration

(new drawing)

Apatosaurus is one of the first large Sauropod dinosaurs ever to be found in modern times.  This dinosaur was up to 80 feet or 24 meters long.  It weighed up to 32-72 long tons.   These weights are estimated so no precise measurement is known.   

It is thought that large Sauropods probably laid a large clutch of eggs about the size of a volleyball.  The young would probably been left to fend for themselves after hatching. . . but when they were as big as say a modern elephant they would join the herd and have the protection of the enormous adults.   Tracks in Texas, USA were found that indicated that possibly the sub-adults or young were kept in the middle of the herd when traveling or migrating.  This would give them maximum protection from predators.  So as you look at the above drawing consider that the "babies" are as big as a full grown elephant.  

 No predator. . . like Allosaurus or Torvosaurus.... would have a chance against a healthy herd with huge adult Apatosaurus.  The tail is thought to have been weaponized.  It could almost certainly be used as a formidable weapon to fight off predators

A funny thing happened.  At the American Museum of Natural History in NYC... for 80 years they had the wrong head on their Apatosaurus.  By the way, the name was changed to Apatosaurus from the name Brontosaurus.

They fixed the problem and this skeleton now has the correct head.  

We went to this amazing museum recently.  What a thrill to see this 

and other original first finds from over 100 years ago.  

The following are drawings from older posts:

Apatosaurus cracking the Whip

Apatosaurus D. Train

This drawing is inspired by the Apatosaurus from the great PBS series Dinosaur Train. 

Apatosaurus feeding on Cycad

Apatosaurus Mother and Young for Small Children

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