Swordwhale Walking: illustration, webcomic, stories, photojourneys, videos
  • launch here
    • welcome aboard
  • art & stories
    • Tales of the E.L.F. >
      • cast and crew
      • I dreamed of black horses
      • fanfiction: If Wishes Were Elves...
      • fandom >
        • Radagast's Rabbit Ride
        • the Lone Ranger >
          • LOLs and Trolls
          • but wait, there's Moore, and Silverheels
          • Hi Yo Silver
        • black panthers and night furies
        • tales of Middle Earth >
          • Mirthwood
          • Loth-LOL-ien >
            • Im-LOL-dris
            • Smirkwood
            • well, that coulda' been worse
        • Sherlocked
        • catz and doges on fandom
        • Faithful Sidekicks
    • playing with water
    • Tradigital illustration
    • environmental education >
      • Christmas Magic Mural 2020
      • animal alphabet and counting murals
      • the salamander room
      • more touch room ocean
      • more: touch room forest
      • wetland
      • wetland art
      • greenleaf
      • reptile week murals: Nixon Park
    • Just Animals
    • just animals: photography
    • murals
    • scribblings
    • coloring pages
  • mermaid tales
    • Gramma Swordwhale's Mermaid Blog >
      • how to mermaid
      • merfolk on the Chesapeake
      • my life as a mermaid
    • privateers and pumpkins and ponies oh my!
    • stupid gravity (the adventures of a mermaid on Eastern Neck Is.) >
      • stupid gravity credits
    • stupid gravity: the search for sea glass >
      • stupid gravity: the search for sea glass: credits
    • Stupid Gravity: Misty Cloudy Windy Stormy Augh! >
      • Misty Stormy credits
    • Stupid Gravity: the search for mermaids
    • mermaids, Moana and Maui, beached on Christmas Eve
    • horseshoe crabs forever
    • stupid gravity: hot hot hot >
      • hot hot hot credits
  • Chincoteague
    • identify that pony
    • chincoteague pony art
    • Fall Roundup Oct 2019
    • Chincoteague 2019
    • pookas pumpkins and swamp ponies
    • Chincoteague November 2018
    • the 3rd Sea Voyage of Makenuk's Fin
    • wild horses and kayaks 2017
    • wild ponies in camp
    • North Beach
    • on island time
    • saltwater cowboys
    • Chincoteague
    • Christmas by the Sea
    • island ponies
    • Ace and Unci revolt
    • beached
    • running water in between
    • Assateague Light
    • the Haunted Lagoon
  • crafty stuff
    • ModPodge rules
    • chalk paint
    • rock it: paint rocks and use or lose them
    • faerie gardens >
      • more faerie gardens
      • faerie festival at Spoutwood Farm
    • sea this tutu (and make)
    • I found Dory
    • knit me a mermaid, or chicken, or Hei Hei
    • sea treasures
    • sea glass
    • sea horses
    • rehabbing horse epic fail >
      • do you wanna build a snow pony?
      • do you wanna build a sand pony?
      • Barbie horse gets a makeover
    • mermaid saddles
    • Yule Laugh, Yule Cry... >
      • a Brandywine Christmas
    • Uncle Bob's Toys >
      • Uncle Bob's Toys 2016
      • more: Uncle Bob's Crafts
      • the Adventures of Mortimer
  • photo your toys
    • how to photograph Breyers in the wild
    • paint and wet snow pants
    • derps (or how not to photograph Breyers and others)
    • wild Breyers >
      • printable prints and downloads
      • beach Breyers
      • Lotus Legolas and Arod
      • teeny tiny Breyers
      • backyard Breyers and Schleichs
      • vintage breyers
      • Hartland Horses
      • Black Horses
    • educational display
    • Schleich and Safari Faeries
    • North beached
    • more model horses
    • beach party
    • advenatureData
    • Finding Hank
    • Otterlock and Hedgejawn >
      • Hounded in Baskerville
    • how to photograph your dragon
  • adventures
    • Go Play Outside
    • Nature Deficit Disorder
    • I heart Nature
    • autumn light
    • cats
    • mushing 101 >
      • dogs on wheels >
        • Autumn Run on Wheels
      • dogsled
      • dogsledding: running on snow! >
        • Groundhog Day
      • kids and dawgs: first sled run
      • Klondike Derby
      • Sled Dogs and Pirate Ships
      • Christmas Day Run: Rail Trail
      • Horses and Huskies: when predator and prey share the trail
      • Schipperke doo dah >
        • Runnin' with the Big Dogs
        • Hobbit Husky
      • women who run with the wolves
      • Play Time
      • wubba wubba
      • New Year's Dog Day
      • Team Swordwhale
    • trains, sleddogs, and horses oh my!
    • butterscotch and sprinkles
    • horses >
      • horse reference for art
      • ponies small but mighty
      • First Horse: Saraf
      • the Wild Black Mare
      • between thunder and lightning
      • Goliath, Nevada Mustang
      • Yataalii
    • Planet Water >
      • planet toadpool
      • Planet Pond
      • Planet Stream
      • Planet River
      • Planet Marsh
      • Planet Ocean
      • Planet Water Bird >
        • Planet Water Bird: gulls
      • Planet turtle
      • Planet water snake
      • planet amphibian
    • kayak! >
      • blue boat home
      • kayaking 101
      • kayaking Assateague and Chincoteague
      • how to train your dragonfly
      • Chasing Raven
      • the Susquehanna River >
        • the Rock Garden >
          • return to the Rock Garden
        • Conewago Dreamin'
        • the Conejehola Flats
        • Thunderbird Island (petroglyphs on the Susquehanna)
        • to the White Lady and Beyond
      • Calvert Cliffs fossils
      • Sassafras River Lotus Paddle >
        • Return to the Sassafras
        • sassafras river 2015
        • sassafras paddle 20160814
        • Sassafras River 2017
        • Sassafras river 2018
      • Eastern Neck Island >
        • winter marsh, winter beach
        • Eastern Neck Island: under the supermoon
        • more Eastern Neck Island
      • Pinchot Park
      • Lake Marburg >
        • where are the manatees?
        • ...and the dolphins???
        • macros and SAVs
        • Lake Marburg 2018
    • beached
    • dive in! (SCUBA) >
      • Gourd of the Rings
    • mid Atlantic seashells
    • longship company >
      • December sail
      • Sae Hrafn at Oakley
    • pirates and privateers >
      • Sailing 101
      • Schooner Sultana 1768
      • Capt John Smith Shallop
      • Pride of Baltimore II
      • Kalmar Nyckel
      • downrigging 2010 >
        • Chestertown autumn
        • Downrigging Weekend 2014
        • Downrigging 2015
        • Downrigging 2016
        • Downrigging 2017
        • downrigging 2018: pink tardis
        • Downrigging 2019
      • privateer weekend
    • horseshoe crabs and red knots >
      • slaughter beach
      • horseshoe crabs and semipalmated sandpipers 2019
    • surfboards and watchtowers: Cape Henlopen >
      • beached
      • Watching Whales >
        • Watching Whales...again
    • Seadogs: Newfoundland water trials
    • wind hounds
    • wild things! >
      • baltimore aquarium
      • there's a hummer in the garage...ceiling ...
      • critter cam
      • sky walking
      • leaf-fall
    • The Adventures of the Good Ship Fearaf
    • the incredibly dead blog page
  • art class
    • framing 101
    • watercolor: how to
    • sip n paints
    • acrylic painting 101
    • wildlife art class
    • (drawing) horses 101 >
      • horse color 101
      • gaits
      • ponies in motion
      • tack
      • Draw: a horse
    • dogs and wolves
    • go ahead, draw a pirate ship
    • anthropomorphism (cartoon animals and stuff)
    • the Little Kids Page of Big Ideas
    • mural: how to >
      • Gabriel's Whale
      • stuff you need
      • drawing (mural)
      • drawing mural 2
      • painting
      • mural jungle
      • mural bat cave
      • mural cats
      • mural ocean
      • mural arctic
      • mural leaf smacking
      • watershed mural
    • crayons and colored pencils
    • palettes
  • Swordwhale's Store
  • wait wait! let me get the camera!
  • who perpetrated all this???
    • swordbroad
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16 foot by 8 foot mural for York County PA Park System's Christmas Magic at Rocky Ridge Park.

This version is printable.

The original was done as a photo prop for the lighted seasonal trail through the park. House paint on plywood.

here there be...

art, stories, crafty stuff, photography, videos​
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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

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...


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who the heck are you anyway?

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. 

I once spent Halloween, and one earthquake, on pirate ships (see the pirates and privateers section).

You don't need to have lots of money to have adventures.
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​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

Gramma Swordwhale's Mermaiding Page on facebook

How to Train Your Cat on facebook

swordwhale1 on youtube
art, kayaking, sled dogs, pirate ships and wild ponies

Instagram @teannabyerts
​nature, art, cats and other fun stuff


contact me to: commission art, teach a class, buy a print or craft
​swordwhale@yahoo.com


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about this site
(click on the paddler)
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What's new, where to find me (facebook etc), my art, my stories.

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pages to explore
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​click on the pictures below or use the menu at the top to navigate


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art and stories
my art, and tales of the ELF

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islands of the wild ponies

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play with your toys
(how to photograph your dragon, mermaid or Breyer horses)

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mushing 101
all you need is a dog and a bike

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planet water
explorations from toadpool to sea

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when you want a bigger boat
sailing with pirates, privateers and vikings

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how to art
​(watercolor, wildlife, acrylics and more)

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mermaid tales

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crafty stuff

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adventures
from kayaking to bike-joring to mermaiding to horses to exploring a stream or beach to sailing on a pirate ship or Viking ship, adventure is closer than you think...

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kayaking 101
easier than you think

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horses: 
my life as a centaur and
​horse reference for artists and others

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There are many more pages to find and explore here:

Scuba 101, beaches, I Heart Nature (found heart shaped objects in the wild), faerie gardens, sea glass, murals, my years as a swordbroad, random fandom, Ace and Unci's revolt, coloring pages and how to make a tutu... go play.


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