Prepping for the holidays🎄

Last week I made Christmas cookies, "Jólasmákökur"🎄

🖼️ Edith Holden

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

Really like these!

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

☀️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

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

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

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

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😃🏃‍♀️

Sketching houses🏠🏘

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

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 🥰🎉🎈

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🇩🇰❤️

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 😄

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

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

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

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

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

A wave of houses🌊 #illustrationartist #fairytailart

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

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🐔🐣🥚❤️

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

Tonight's progress. Keeping myself busy❤️😔

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

My woodlouse, all coloured in🖍

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❤️❤️❤️

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

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

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

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

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

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

Latest print test 🌜🌞✨️

Skruffies in the woods. Latest skruffie drawing #fantasyart

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

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

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🍄

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

Voilà! There's a bit of sun at noon🌞

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

Spent yesterday on training camp, singing Bach for over 7 hours with my choir friends🎶💪 I'm fully recharged creatively, although tired physically 😌

A page from last year's sketchbook. Inspiration for this final work in progress in the background. #fantasyartist #fantasyart #creaturedrawing #sketchbook

It's dark, wet and cold outside and usually quite a challenging time of year. I do my best to just dream of blue skies, colorful wildlife and things growing 😌🌱 We will make it to spring! Pink flamingos in last year's sketchbook 🦩

Trees gathering for purposes we will probably never know about😌 From last year's sketchbook. #fantasyartist

A peak at what's on my desk this weekend. Experimenting with beautiful, high quality inks and white gouache, along with my old loved process of black pastel and pencil drawing. Inks are from Nakano shop in Reykjavík🎨❤️ Happy weekend!

A skruffies hug from last years sketchbook✏️ #sketchbook2024