I'm afraid I don't have a resume of creature color designs yet. =/
As for the first template sketch,
here's a quick wireframe. It relies on Bootstrap at the moment and so would go well with the Bootstrap theme I already made, but I can also weed out just the bits of Bootstrap I'm currently using, too, if you'd rather. (You can hide the html and css code from the top center of the page by clicking those buttons.) I left in the bottom ad because I figure viewers don't like those in their faces. Obviously the menu is lacking in functionality so I'll have to swap it out for something that works, so consider it a placeholder. x'D
I'd like to spend much, much more time on the first template sketch you made, so it'll be a few days. I'll style it up much more nicely, but left the first one mostly alone and the css easy to navigate so you can style it up.