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*that* Heather Hudson
@artofheatherhudson.bsky.social
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Old School CCG/TTRPG/M;tG illustrator
traditional media, she/her
Illuminating monsters a speciality.

www.artofheatherhudson.com

No A/I, no N/F/Ts, no fascists
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Detail of "Midwinter Star" a personal watercolor of mine that may be in the #Changeling "Deck the Halls" auction next week.

Experience teaches that it's not smart to offer art that's too big to fit in a USPS Priority mailer, and yet I contemplate...
#watercolor #Christmas #artshop #bearinanightcap
"Detail, Midwinter Star/©2021, Heather Hudson" Watercolor painting; A bear in a nightcap puts a gold paper star on the top of an evergreen tree, under a wooden roof.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I realize we live in a time of many crises, but I still sell art by mail and I offer this screen cap from PirateShip(dot)com to explain why I want the USPS to stay un-privatized...
"Switch to UPS for $24.05 more"
Screencap of a postage buying screen. I can either ship by USPS for $5.24 (down from $8.80) or I can SwItCh To ***UPS*** for $24.05 MoRe! (screwed up font mine, sorry, I was in the grip of strong emotions.)
October 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Spooky art available! "Signs and Portents" a b&w sketch on gray paper, is currently part of Gargoyle Statuary's October art show.
Gargoyles is online as well as in Seattle, & ships world-wide.
#originalart #artshop #artforsale
gargoylestatuary.com/product/sign...
"Signs and Portents" a sketch on gray paper by Heather Hudson, of a robed skeleton with long hands and flames and smoke rising from their figure.
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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One of my personal graphite works, "Rise Up," in Gargoyles Statuary's "The Haunted Realm" art show, happening now in Seattle's U-District and running thru Nov. 20th.
Contact Gargoyles for more information...
gargoylestatuary.com
#art #artshop #VanRuyschAgain
Graphite drawing by Heather Hudson of a small winged skeleton, arms raised, rising above clouds into a luminous sun. Mounted in a white mat and black&silver frame.
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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After the event, stayed an extra day in Pittsburgh to visit the Carnegie museum of natural history!
Dynamic duo - nile crocodile taxidermy at cmnh sauropod skeleton mounts with pterosaur skeleton mounts in mid-foreground. More dinosaur sleletons A bone bed of a herd of paleo mammals,probably washed down a river to lie decomposing on a sand bank until the silt buried them, exact species forgotten, sorry
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Up in the early hours, drawing another Gathering book sketch on the floor of the hotel bathroom so as not to wake D.
Hey, the light is good in here.
Head of the demon from Chains of Mephistopheles card, drawn in ink by Heather Hudson on the page of a book.
October 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Gathering Sketch at Eternal Weekend 2025…
Sketck of chains demon in Gathering book, by Heather Hudson
October 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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A new show of spooky, fantastical art from Hinge Artist collective, coming soon...
#Hinge
Signage; HInge Artist Collective, Ominous V. 10.3.2025 - 10.31.2025. (artists) John Chen, Dan Fisher, Annette Hassell, Heather Hudson, Delphine Malidore, Reiko Murakami, Andrew Sides, Cat Swartz, Maria William
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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my local burrito place, fighting the power of corporate Mexican food with giant chickens
chicken statues on a roof
September 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Maybe the giant toy frog is not entirely appropriate for a gallery product image, but I do feel the photo captures the sensibilities of the artist as well as the artwork and its framing.

"Motherhood Among the Trolls," framed and ready for tomorrow on #EveryDayOriginal...
Framed artwork, "Motherhood Among the Trolls" by Heather Hudson, in a setting of books, curiosities, and, yes, a giant toy frog. Motherhood available tomorrow on EveryDayOriginal.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Finishing this small personal watercolor for #EveryDayOriginal, coming up soon, and thinking about trolls and motherhood and what to call it...
(Naming things is surprisingly hard.)
#art #WIP #artshop
Close shot of a hand painting a WIP picture of a troll wife against a blue and green forest setting. The hand obscures half the picture. The watermark reads "artofheatherhudson.com."
September 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I was having a chat with the in-house art director about 1940’s era adventure serials, and modern riffs thereon. Behold the restrained dignity of the real thing…
“Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe” poster from the 40s. Visually busy. “Adventures of Captain Africa” movie serial poster from the 40s. Boy, there’s a lot going on there! “Adventures of Captain Marvel” serial poster for Chapter 4, “Death Takes the Wheel”. Is that a mechanical scorpion with a laser beam for a head!
September 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Improvident sum-bitches who killed de minimus exemptions are also delaying delivery of the sweet, sweet Paul Bonner art book I ordered months ago, and I *will* add this to my arya-stark list.

(A small thing in these dark times, and yet I resent!)
Screencap of a message from Amazon telling me delivery of the upcoming Paul Bonner art book is delayed until Sept. 1st, 2026.
September 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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One of the first three cards I ever painted, and it's old-school beloved to this day. I've been drawing this guy for nigh-on 30 years...
Margin sketch in black ink and blue pencil of the Chains devil, with chains.
September 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Hey kids, guess what is a thing that exists?!?!
#OMA #oldschoolmagic #magicthegathering
Open box of fancy play-mats featuring “Chains of mephistopheles” art from MtG; Legends, painted by Heather Hudson (me) back in the olden days of 1993.
September 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Someday I should do another personal fairy sketch challenge...
pencil drawing by heather hudson,c. 2017, of a sassy-looking fairy on a branch, with a little mucky-green watercolor suggesting a background.
September 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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My new watercolor, “Easily Distracted,” is currently available as part of @hingeartists.bsky.social “Decipher” exhibition, which is now open.
It's an excellent show in general, check it out!
www.hinge-artist-collective.com/decipher
#art #decipher #artshop
"Easily Distracted" a watercolor by Heather Hudson of a crow drawing a red balloon past an illuminated Satot square. watercolor painting detail of a crow with a cord in its mouth Watercolor "Easily Distracted" in mat
August 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Thank you.
Portrait of a small black resentful cat.
August 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I missed the "post your green art" thread yesterday, but I'm posting some anyway! Here's my "8 of coins" and "Judgement", both from tarot decks but not the same ones.
#art #tarot #changeling #78tarot #mythology
Eight of Coins, a spider woman weaving on a tree-loom, with flowers and coins in a landscape. Card in mixed media, for the Woven Path tarot deck, from Changeling Artist Collective. "Judgement" - faun dances in sunlit forest glade to the sound of his pan pipes, while a stream of small fairies gather around him. Mixed media (mostly gouache/ acrylic gouache) for the Mythical tarot deck from 78 Tarot.
August 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Good morning!

Tip - to develop your art style on a project, draw a study of your photoreference, then draw the actual project sketch from your study.
Yes, I know, no one has time for that iterative process.
It works, tho.
#art #artlife #sketchbook
Photo of a drawing table from the edge of the table, with a notebook, glasses and several cups of random pencils, pens and paintbrushes. There is a drawing in progress, flat and foreshortened in the foreground.
July 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!
Traditionally painted illustration by Heather Hudson, of a WWI era investigator with gun and lantern in front of an ominous Egyptian sarcophagus.
July 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Between the wooden panels on the arena floor, winter is waiting…
#artsales #vending #popcultureevents
July 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I'm going outside the studio next weekend!
Flyer jpg w/ detail of my old Magic card "Academy Rector" and text reading "Studio Wondercabinet, the artwork of Heather Hudson - illuminating monsters a speciality - Early Magic; the Gathering artist Heather Hudson (Chains of Mephistopheles, Wall of Blossoms, Academy Rector, Karmic Guide, Standstill and many more) will be a guest at GeekFest West 2025 at Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett, WA on July 18-20, 2025 Come say hello!"
July 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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More Earl Norem art…
Vintage b&w mens magazine-style art by Earl Norem, showing a dramatic representation of the story’s title, “THE CIRCUS BEAR THAT ASSASSINATED THE NAZI BUTCHERS OF STALAG 13”
July 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I'm going to be a guest at GeekFest west next month, and I'm going to bring some of our Xmas cards and gift wrap to the table. I know Xmas is 6 months away, but I like our weird holiday stuff and want folks to see what we made.

Merry not-Christmas anyway!
Xmas card featuring a painting of HP Lovecraft, badly costumed as santa and looking glum against a drab, olive green background.
June 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM