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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last week I painted 9 miniatures illustration to practice my painting process in an fast way. Definitely going to do more of these and even offer as ACEO's in the future! A really fun way of painting. #ArtistTip #artreveal #fantasyartist #artjournal #aceo

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Rooster and Grasshopper. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 132 × 85 mm, 2022.

Silhouette illustration primarily in black ink of a crowing rooster, standing amid tall grasses. A grasshopper jumps into the air in front of the rooster. The rooster's comb and wattle are the one spot of red in the piece.

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maru @koyamori.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dancing in the wind 🍂 #art

Yellow gingko leaves cascade down from the tree branch.
Creatures ride upon the dancing leaves, surfing the wind.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Realised today that I've not been posting any of my work here for ages😬 Been in mental slump, although still doing artwork😔 Today I'm reworking an idea and building my trust the process!!!🤓 #traditionalart #fairytaleart #oc #darkfantasy

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My head is out of the study books and I've lost my daytime job😳 So I've been figuring out what to do while making a vintage style, 18th century botanical illustration 🌱😃 Does anyone need a nature/ scientific illustrator with a penchant for the 18th century style?

A 18th century style botanical illustration showing two cucumbers hanging from a wine. The text in the description is from wikipedia, Cucumis sativus. Artist: Heiða Rafnsdóttir

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Last week I made Christmas cookies, "Jólasmákökur"🎄

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🖼️ Edith Holden

Meadow Crane's-bill (Geranium pratense).
Yellow Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris):
Also known as Common Toadflax or Butter-and-Eggs,
Magpie Moth.
Illustration.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

He seems to want something from you. I dont think it's anything good. An illustration from ladt year for #folklorethursday

A painting of a moody, mystical merman in green and dark brown inks. He looks unnerving and is staring straight at the viewer with glowing eyes and mouth like he's whispering something scary.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Appropriate when vacationing in Dýrafjörður, or "Animal-fjord", in Iceland✏️ Paradise for animal and nature lovers🦀❤️

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

☀️The Sun, older than everything ☀️ Print version, right, and original painting, left. Inks, black pastels, gouache and minor digital touchups. Very happy with how my Epson p900 is handling the warm, dark colours 🖨 #fantasyillustration #fantasyart

A photograph of a warm yellow and brown sheet of printed illustration in inks and black pastels, lying on a wooden table. The illustration shows a round face sitting in the middle of a brownish yellow background, surrounded by a dark brown frame. It's the Sun, with twirling swirls around it, looking like hair or rays of sunshine. Below the sun there lies a tight cluster of dark blueish green and round shaped clouds, some with vaguely shaped faces.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This is Squishy, a kind of a cross between a crustacean and a jellyfish. This is my first finalised personal illustration of the year! I talk about the process and about my goals for the rest of 2025, in my latest newsletter on my website. See link in comments. #fantasyart #fantasyartist

A top down photograph of a printed A4 size illustration, with white borders, lying on the tray of a black printer.

The illustration shows a yelowish-brown colored creature floating in a greenblue colored ocean, above brown seaweed.

The creature is kind of a cross between a crustacean and jellyfish and with airpockets growing out of its upper body. The creature has long jellyfish like tentacles hanging down from it's body and some ofbthese have airdrops hanging at the ends.

It is reminiscent of one of the Ohmu creature in the the Studio Ghibli film Nausicaa.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Building characters for a story about a jellyfish that also has a whale i it. Just needs a name... and a story 👀 🪼🐳🪼🐳🪼🐳🪼🐳🪼🐳🪼 #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit #childrensbookillustration

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Everyone seems to be sleeping. This quiet row of houses got finished yesterday. #illustration #illustrationartist #illustrator #fantasyillustration

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

From my morning walk with my husband up a small Icelandic mountain, Ùlfarsfell 🥰 I was a bit nervous about how it would go after having problems with my back for the last year. Happy to say that it went great and this artist is in very good shape😃🏃‍♀️

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Beautiful morning! Hope you'll have a good day to be enthusiastic, creative or just to recharge and relax🤗

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This is me 10 years ago, holding my diploma at my graduation! So very happy I did this and that I'm still working as an artist and designer 🥰🎉🎈

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Got myself an original Rasmus Klump comic in Denmark, sn original first edition. My grandmother gave me my first one, translated in Icelandic. This one is my first Rasmus Klump in the original language🇩🇰❤️

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I'm here in wonderful Denmark, the land of HC Andersen❤️🇩🇰 I rarely travel, especially when compared to many Icelanders. Maybe it's normal for island living people to want to travel abroad a lot, or maybe it's the viking genes still in us 😄

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My lifelong hero and influencer Sir David Attenborough celebrates his 99th today! A wonderful human being that has had a huge impact on my life like so many others. I've even met him in person! Today I'll be extra thankfull for everything he has done for us ❤️ #davidattenborough

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'm so very happy with these🤓 My zomania illustrations are quality printed on fine art paper and will last almost forever without fading. Accompanied with an envelope so they can serve as gift cards as well as wall decorations🦐🪱🕷🐚 #animaldrawings #naturalhistory #museumart #homedecorations

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Cutting and folding a batch of Cuddly greeting cards ✂️ And relaxing for our big choir concert tomorrow😌🎶

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Today, 2 April, is World Autism Awareness Day 🎉 Me and my son celebrate today as proud autistic individuals ♾️ #actuallyautistic #audhd

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This house loves living on this wood covered hill. Still waiting for summer. Blackwing pencil on heavyweight paper. #illustrationartist #pencils #fantasyillustration

A photograph of a pencil drawing on white paper and a pencil made of wood lying on it. The drawing shows a tall house on a hill surrounded by a lawn, some bushes and tall leafless trees on either side. A Victorian style iron cast fence lies in front of the lawn and a couple of similarly looking lamp posts. A round moon is i the sky.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Me and my Cuddlies wish you all good luck and fortune on this St. Patrick's day🍀🍀🍀 #StPatricksDay #StPaddysDay

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Coloured in my hen sketches from last December. "Well, one does want a hint of color." (Albert, from The Birdcage) Hens are wonderful, and they can make eggsies🐔🐣🥚❤️

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Waiting to get to my desk but it's not highest priority at the moment 😞

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Tonight's progress. Keeping myself busy❤️😔

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

My Saturday morning🎶🌞 One of the best ways to start a day!!

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

My woodlouse, all coloured in🖍

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

These are my beautiful cats, the gray and the round🥰 The sun comes out ever stronger each day now and they love basking in it, radiating calm and relaxation❤️❤️❤️

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Mushrooms are fantastic living forms and they find their way into my sketchbooks regularly. #fantasyillustration #drawingmushrooms #fantasyillustrator

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Snapshot from my studio wall. These humpbacks have been swimming peacefully there in that illustration since 2017. I love painting and drawing whales❤️🐋🐳

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sometimes one of these visits my studio. Harmless and always very welcome😌 Evening's couch sketch. Common rough woodlouse (Porcellio scaber) #naturalhistory #drawinganimals #naturalhistoryillustration

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Today is your day polar bears! Congratulations 🐻‍❄🤍❄️ #internationalpolarbearday #kidlitartist #fantasyillustration

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It's #throwbackthursday and I'm in a very baad mood like this mermaid😫 I actually think she suffers from permanent bad mood😳 Lucky it's just a particularly bad week for me and not permanent 😞 This too will pass❤️ #tbt #fantasyartist

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Original....🌜✨️ Inks, gouache and black pastels #fantasyillustration #kidlitart #artprints

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Latest print test 🌜🌞✨️

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Skruffies in the woods. Latest skruffie drawing #fantasyart

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

January and February so far, have been hectic. Had a recharging Sunday afternoon at a favourite spot, Garðskagi.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Prince Charming has been sleeping for almost a hundred years. I wonder who will be the one to wake him up? #fantasyartist #fairytailart

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Going through my art folder in the company of a glass of wine, beacuse it's the weekend🍷 My collection of artwork and drawings keeps growing, and it grows in various directions. Maybe it's time to pick one direction and stay there? Found a skruffie mushroom house from some years back🍄

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is me with my 9 year old daughter and my painting for a collaborative art exhibition in Reykjavik downtown in 2017. The theme was "A better Reykjavìk". Not surprisingly, my ideas involved whales and octopus! Precious memory from when I was just starting out🥰 #tbt #throwbackthursday

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Voilà! There's a bit of sun at noon🌞

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A couple of new art prints added to my collection: 🌞Sun & Clouds 🌜Moon & Stars. I painted them in watercolour many years ago and added a few digital touch ups. 📢 My website has a subscription button📢 Just sign up if you want to get my newsletters 📝 www.heidarafns.com

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