an art and photography sampler...and some truly random selfies
Action figures and Breyer horses: Assateague Island in a howling wind. Small Breyer seahorses: front yard in a freezing snowfall. Ship: Pride of Baltimore II with Captain Mark (Chesapeake Bay crossing as guest crew). Sea Ponies of Chincoteague Island. Pooka's Bridge: done as a large watercolor for a science fiction convention program cover in 1984, based on a short story by Gillian Fitzgerald. She got the original but it was lost/stolen in a move. A friend found a print, scanned it, I photoshopped out the goobers and in the color for the color version here. Winter Forest Guardian: Photoshopped layers of my original watercolors. Grey pony with moon: Prismacolor drawing of Bazraf, a Welsh/Arabian pony I had once, Photoshopped with effects. Bucking pinto: watercolor black and white illustration for a book of Nancy Springer poetry, colorized version done on Photoshop. Cat elf: several watercolors and Photoshop. Recycle: one of my favorite recyclers, Turkey Vulture. And Grogu, of course. Shots with giant blue crab at Cape Henlopen State Park DE.
here there be...
art, stories, crafty stuff, photography, videos
and mermaids
nature, fantasy, horses, sled dogs and other critters, pirate ships, mermaids and kayaks,
crafty stuff and how to photograph your dragon (and other toys, er, collectibles),
also, a lot of stuff on my favorite islands, Chincoteague and Assateague
and how to: art, be crafty, mermaid, kayak, mush (bike-joring!), and explore planet water
my audience is general, but I keep it kid friendly
Links to facebook and other pages below...
Artist, writer, photographer, mermaid. Have done my favorite work, environmental education art, for local parks. I have paddled in the wake of dolphins, trained actual wild mustangs, a 3 1/4 dog sled team, and live with a small pride of mini panthers (aka void kittehs). Volunteered with wildlife rehabbers: yes riding in a closed van with a barfing vulture is fun, otters can bite through 6ml dive gloves, and a four month old tiger is the largest one you want to wrestle.
Have decorated underwater Yule trees (styrofoam satin balls compress, the thread wafts off, and they hang UP), carved underwater pumpkins (bluegills spit out the pumpkin bits, yuck, but like to taste your thumb). I once spent Halloween, and one earthquake, on pirate ships (see the pirates and privateers section). I also spent one Halloween night working with a lovely young man who had a great Dracula accent.. because he was, in fact, from Transylvania.
You don't need to have lots of money to have adventures.
Have decorated underwater Yule trees (styrofoam satin balls compress, the thread wafts off, and they hang UP), carved underwater pumpkins (bluegills spit out the pumpkin bits, yuck, but like to taste your thumb). I once spent Halloween, and one earthquake, on pirate ships (see the pirates and privateers section). I also spent one Halloween night working with a lovely young man who had a great Dracula accent.. because he was, in fact, from Transylvania.
You don't need to have lots of money to have adventures.
join the fleet on facebook
friend me at Teanna Byerts: https://www.facebook.com/swordwhale
(art, nature, cats, ponies, wild ponies, kayaking, mermaids, tutorials and livestreams)
art page and tutorials: https://www.facebook.com/swordwhalewalking/
Kayak Chesapeake Watershed on facebook:
livestreams from the kayak, photos, and whatever friends post too
https://www.facebook.com/groups/261596567988625
Gramma Swordwhale's Mermaiding Page
on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/431637214326043
How to Train Your Cat on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/288442392347360
swordwhale1 on youtube
art, kayaking, sled dogs, pirate ships and wild ponies
https://www.youtube.com/user/swordwhale1
Instagram @teannabyerts
nature, art, cats and other fun stuff
In places where there are seals, there are selkie legends: seal folk who take off their skins to walk on land in human form. On the Northwest Coast of North America, there are similar legends of whale folk who take off their fins... the fin becomes a boat. Swordwhale is one of the many names (in parts of Europe, as my ancestors would have called them) for orca.
pages to explore
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