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Jessica Roux
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Illustrator, author, gardener

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A new label for Heirloom Rustic Ales. This past weekend, they celebrated their eight year anniversary! I’ve been honored to create artwork for them since the very beginning. Some of my favorite pieces in my portfolio are from Heirloom’s many brews.
Illustration of a glowing tree against a watercolor textured dark green-blue background. There are a few stones at the base of the tree. The tree has a twisting, bonsai-like trunk with long, spindle-y leaves. Photo of two beer cans sitting in a wooden table with a plant behind them. On the cans, there is an illustration of a glowing tree against a watercolor textured dark green-blue background. There are a few stones at the base of the tree. The tree has a twisting, bonsai-like trunk with long, spindle-y leaves.
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Happy Halloween! Every year I draw on pumpkins. Here are this year’s batch, including a few picked from my own garden.
Eight pumpkins arranged on a table. Each one has a marker drawing on it: a snail, a skull, a pansy flower with eyes, a rat, a snake with dahlia flowers, a fawn, a two-headed swallow, and a toad sitting on a skull. Close up of the snake and dahlia pumpkin and the fawn pumpkin. Drawn with marker on pumpkins. Close up of a pumpkin. Drawn with marker there is a woman wearing a skull mask holding a piece of wheat. In the background there is a pumpkin with a snail drawing, a pumpkin with skulls, and a pumpkin with a pansy flower with eyes. Three pumpkins arranged on a table next to a lit candle. The pumpkins each have drawings on them done in marker. One shows a swallow with two heads, one shows a fawn, and one shows a frog sitting on a skull.
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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One of my favorite cards from my new tarot deck, Tarot of the Woodland Wardens: The High Priestess. Find the deck through your favorite bookshop! site.andrewsmcmeel.com/tarot-of-the...
Illustration of the high priestess tarot card. In the center of the image a barn owl sits on a crescent moon floating in the water. Behind her is a banner of pomegranates and hops hung between a black tree and a white tree. It is night.
October 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Tarot of the Woodland Wardens is out today! It’s my favorite thing I’ve ever made, and I hope you love it as much as I do. Find it through your favorite bookstore: site.andrewsmcmeel.com/tarot-of-the...
Photo of the tarot deck Tarot of the Woodland Wardens on a wooden table, surrounded by various flowers, leaves, scissors, gems, and keys. The photo shows the guidebook, box cover, and three cards. The box cover and guidebook shows a dog and raccoon, and the cards show an owl, badger, and raccoon. Photo of the tarot deck Tarot of the Woodland Wardens on a wooden table, surrounded by various flowers, leaves, scissors, gems, and keys. The photo shows the guidebook, box cover, and a stack of cards. The box cover and guidebook shows a dog and raccoon, and the cards show the same dog as the Fool card. Photo of the tarot deck Tarot of the Woodland Wardens on a wooden table, surrounded by various flowers, leaves, scissors, gems, and keys. The photo shows three cards in focus held my a hand: the ace of pentacles, a turtle, the two of wands, a weasel, and the emperor, a bear. In the background is the box and guidebook.
September 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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From my new tarot deck, Tarot of the Woodland Wardens. The story behind this image is one of my favorite bits of folklore, which tells of how the hedgehog shakes a grape tree, then uses her spiky back to collect the fallen fruit to feed her family.
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Illustration of a hedgehog wearing a red ribbon with three gold coins on her back. The coins are stuck to her spiky back. The hedgehog stands in front of a grape tree that has five more golden coins. The text says: eight of pentacles Photo of a hand holding three tarot cards from Tarot of the Woodland Wardens. The cards are next to a pink rose and photographed outside. The cards are Strength, the King of Arrows, and the Eight of Pentacles. Photo of a hand holding the box, Tarot of the Woodland Wardens. White anemone flowers are in the slightly blurred background. The box cover shows a white Shiba Inu next to a raccoon wearing a cape. They stand behind a tree stump holding a cup, an arrow, a pentacle, and a wand.
September 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Just a few days until Tarot of the Woodland Wardens is out in the world! As a preorder special, we’re giving away prints of the Strength card illustration when the new deck is preordered through participating indie bookstores.
Text says: Preorder special. Preorder Tarot of the Woodland Wardens through participating bookstores, and get a Strength print with your purchase! Image shows the cover of the tarot deck next to illustration showing the Strength card, which depicts a mouse tying the mouth of a lion shut with a red ribbon. Text says: Participating bookstores Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic—Petaluma, CA Ballast Book Company—Bremerton, WA Wild Sisters Book Company—Sacramento, CA The King's English Bookshop—Salt Lake City, UT Bookworks—Albuquerque, NM Peregrine Book Company—Prescott, AZ Stacks Book Club—Oro Valley, AZ Front Street Books—Alpine, TX Mountain Shire Books—Winter Park, CO Ruby's Books—Folsom, CA Fireside Books—Palmer, AK Magnolia's Bookstore—Seattle, WA Books & Company—Oconomowoc, WI Taylor street art & books—Nashville, TN
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The Hanged Warden, from my new tarot deck, Tarot of the Woodland Wardens! Less than a month now before this deck is out in the world 🌿 it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever made. Published by @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social and available for preorder through your favorite bookstore.
Illustration of a possum hanging upside down by his tail on a branch, with a golden moon in the background. There is ivy growing on the branch. Text says “The Hanged Warden” and numbered XII, the number for the Hanged Man in traditional tarot decks Cover of Tarot of the Woodland Wardens by Jessica Roux. Illustration shows a white dog and a raccoon standing over a tree stump, on which a pentacle, cup, wand, and arrow lay.
September 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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One of my favorite tarot cards: The Sun! 🌞 Tarot of the Woodland Wardens comes out September 30th and is published by @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social
Preorder here: site.andrewsmcmeel.com/tarot-of-the...
Illustration of the tarot card The Sun. In front of a large sun a white horse wearing a teal shawl holds a red banner. Sunflowers bloom in the background. Rocks form a short wall in front of the sunflowers but behind the horse. The horse stands in grass. Photo of a hand holding the boxed deck Tarot of the Woodland Wardens. The background is greenery. The cover of the box shows a white Shiba Inu dog next to a raccoon standing next to a tree stump with a cup, pentacle, wand, and arrow on it. Photo of the tarot card The Sun. The background of the photo is a garden with sunflowers. The card shows: In front of a large sun a white horse wearing a teal shawl holds a red banner. Sunflowers bloom in the background. Rocks form a short wall in front of the sunflowers but behind the horse. The horse stands in grass.
August 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Madeline’s eyes feel very familiar…
Photo of a gray and white chicken perched on a bench in a green. Her eye is red and orange The eye of Sauron Close up photo of the chicken’s eye
August 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I have a new collection of originals through Nahcotta’s Enormous Tiny Art Show! Take home a snake painting here: nahcotta.com/collections/...
Photo of six blue and white paintings of snakes on a wooden table. A jumble of different frames, some rectangles, some rounded top rectangles, some ornate, one circular.
August 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Molly’s Halloween costume sorted
White Shiba Inu wearing a chicken costume with a kitchen in the background White Shiba Inu wearing a chicken costume sitting on a patterned white and gray rug in a kitchen
August 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Discover the Dragons comes out next week! This dragon matching memory game was a lot of fun to work on, and it features lore from A Natural History of Dragons. Preorder wherever you like to get your books or through the links here: www.quarto.com/books/978183...
Wooden table with dragon cards turned upside down. The cards have a repeat pattern of colorful dragon illustrations and a blue background. On the cards and table there is a box that says “Discover the Dragons: A Memory Game” with a blue background, colorful dragons, a moon, and a castle. Below the box there is a guidebook that includes rules and dragon facts. Next to the guidebook there are two cards, one for the Emerald Wanderer Dragon (teal color flying over the ocean) and one for the Flit (small gold dragon on a branch) Photo of a wooden table on which sits a box called “Discover the Dragons: A Memory Game” with a blue background, colorful dragons, a moon, and a castle. Below the box there is a guidebook that includes rules and dragon facts. Next to the guidebook there are three cards, one for the Emerald Wanderer Dragon (teal color flying over the ocean) and one for the Flit (small gold dragon on a branch) and one for the Greater European Dragon (green with a night sky, moon, and mountain in the background)
July 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Artists, have any of you used these for mailing prints? The post office added an additional $4 charge for prints shipped rolled in a tube, and I would hate to raise shipping costs to cover that. I’ve found envelopes tend to get bent or corners dinged in shipment, but are these any sturdier?
Diagram of a folding box used for shipping vinyl records
July 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Having TWO local Nashville businesses stealing my artwork and using it to promote a class (with a subject matter that I’m an expert in and wrote an entire book about) but I’m not a part of is… disappointing to say the least
July 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Look at this baby. She doesn’t even know how to be bad.
A white Shiba Inu sitting on a bench in a garden. She looks pleased and is almost smiling.
July 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Some garden photos because it’s too hot to be outside and too hot to get much work done
Minerva the chicken, looking inquisitive, perched on the flagstone edge of a garden bed. She’s surrounded my flowers like purple clematis, pink hydrangeas, purple salvia, red geums, and cream foxgloves. A tiny pink rose bud with a bug crawling on it. Purple clematis in the background. Jessica’s husband Nick holding a fresh garlic plant he’s just pulled out of the ground A basket with green beans, red tomatoes, red and green chili peppers, two pickling cucumbers, and three blue eggs. Flowers are in the background of the photo
June 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Coming this fall: Tarot of the Woodland Wardens! This is my first authored tarot deck, and a project I am immensely proud of. Published by @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social 🌿 Preorder wherever you like to get your books or via the follow link: www.jessica-roux.com/index-1#/tar...
Cover of Tarot of the Woodland Wardens: 78 card deck & guidebook by Jessica Roux. Illustration shows a white dog and a raccoon standing over a tree stump with a wine-colored background
June 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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A couple of photos of my time in Rio for the Bienal do Livros! My publisher Darkside Books flew me to Brazil for the event, and I had the most amazing time.
Jessica in a green dress sitting and speaking into a microphone. There are bookshelves and a red tree behind her. Jessica standing at the palm walk at the Rio Botanic Gardens Jessica holding up a big tarot card showing the magician. The room is small and red and red roses and a faux stained glass window.
June 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Out today from @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social and Amber Lotus: The 2026 Woodland Wardens Calendar & Planner! Find it through your favorite bookseller. It’s never too early to get your calendar for next year ;)

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Photo of the 2026 Woodland Wardens Calendar, on a wooden desk surrounded by flowers Photo of the 2026 Woodland Wardens Weekly Planner, on a wooden desk surrounded by flowers Photo of the 2026 Woodland Wardens Weekly Planner, on a wooden desk surrounded by flowers. The planner is open to a page showing an illustration of a mouse with buttercup flowers. Photo of the 2026 Woodland Wardens Calendar, on a wooden desk surrounded by flowers. The calendar is open to November, which shows an elk and leaves.
June 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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My coaster art for this year’s Salut! 10 show at Gallery Nucleus 💙 I drew some of my favorite little deer-like animals: the pudu, the dik-dik, the klipspringer, and the zebra duiker. You can take find them on the gallery’s website: www.nucleusportland.com/collections/...
Photo of four small square paintings arranged on a wooden table surrounded by flowers. The background of each piece is blue, and they show a blue and white drawing of a zebra duiker with a daffodil, a dik-dik with tulips, a pudu with snowdrops, and a klipspringer with an iris.
June 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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First little bouquet of the season
Photo of Jessica’s hand holding a posey of pink roses, a black calla lily, pink scabiosa, poppy seed heads, yellow yarrow, purple cosmos, and baptisa leaves. Background shows raised beds full of plants.
June 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Next week I’m heading off to Rio de Janeiro for the Bienal do Livro! My publisher in Brazil, Darkside Books, is flying me down for the event. I can’t wait!
Brazilian Portuguese edition of Floriography and Woodland Wardens, photographed on a wooden table Brazilian Portuguese edition of Floriography and Woodland Wardens, photographed on a wooden table. The Floriografia book is open to the page on Foxgloves, or Dedaleira in Portuguese. Event schedule for June 14th Event schedule for June 15th
June 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I’m really bad at remembering to post here, but I am good at sending out one email newsletter a month. If that interests you, sign up here: view.flodesk.com/pages/63bc4a...
Jessica’s hand holding up a postcard, which shows four illustrated magnolia flowers on a black background. Behind the postcard is a blooming magnolia flower.
June 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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DC/Baltimore area friends! I’m excited to share I’ll be a featured author at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 17! Join me for a day of books, ideas & literary fun. (And tell me your favorite DC museums to explore!) #GBF2025 #BookFestival
Graphic showing the Gaithersburg Book Festival logo, overlaid with an illustrated barn owl, as well as the cover of Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore and Symbolism, next to a photo of Jessica Roux, the author, holding the book. Text says Saturday, May 17th in Bohrer Park
May 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Some of my ceramics 🏺 Mostly posting this as a reminder to myself to get back into the pottery more (and finally finish that cake stand I’ve been working on for ages).
Many ceramic pieces on a wooden table, including three plates, a big case, four mini vases, and six trays. Mostly light colored clay with blue, green, or black underglaze paintings of plants and animals.
May 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM