Heather Franzen

@heatherfranzen.bsky.social

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Artist drawing/painting critters 🦉 ✻ Acryla Gouache ✻ Oil ✻ Ink See my art only: #art (tap and hold on mobile) I also like books, anime, tea, personal websites, zines Blog+Shop: heatherfranzen.com Funsite: yogomagpie.neocities.org

Photo of my laptop screen showing my work-in-progress homepage.
Acrylic gouache painting of six passenger pigeons entwined by a vine of morning glories.
Digiscope photo of a herd of white tailed deer attentively staring at something off camera toward the right.
Work-in-progress painting of six passenger pigeons entwined by ten morning glory flowers. All of their faces have been scribbled over with bright orange paint
My painting with a jarring orange underpainting with dark colors in place. There are no light values aside from the orange. The color combo looks gross
A large panel with blobs or paint splattered on.
Holding mini zines titled “Mote” and “Bears”
Holding a grid panel covered with peel and stick wallpaper so that it looks like a wood panel.
Painting of a microscopic critter grasping onto microscopic detritus with its hind feet. It has eight legs, four of which are visible, that end in long claws. It looks like jelly, and has a cute tiny eye spot.
Holding a book with a sewn spine in a Coptic bound style.
Holding a cover of book. There are holes punched on the side and a stamp of a whale shark near the right edge of the cover.
Stamp print of a sitting leopard cat looking straight at us.
Carved stamp of a heron with a couple of test prints on a sheet of printer paper.
Black and white designs of a whale shark, a purple heron, and a visayan leopard cat printed out on a piece of printer paper.
Three stacks of paper and book board on top of a bookhshelf. The paper stacks are tall enough to mostly obscure a pitcher, a plant, and a framed painting on the back of the same shelf.
Painting of a boreal chorus frog in the grass and clovers. It looks like its moving its way across a large blade of grass. The frog is light with dark stripes and spots.
Holding a bottle of green nail polish, with long nails painted green. There is gold shimmer in the polish.
Time lapse video of a fox being drawn in a pixel art app.
Pixel art of a sitting red fox (vulpes vulpes) looking over its red shoulder.
Digital painting of some noodles, topped with tofu, mushrooms, sugar snap peas, red bell peppers, green onions, and sesame seeds. It’s all on a plain plate which sits on a wooden table.
Prompt list for Martch. A fully accessible text-based version is available on the website bweird.art
Digital painting of a woman standing in front of a snowy landscape. I am wearing a really puffy coat with the hood up, and a stiff scarf wrapped around my face. The only visible parts of my face are my eyes and bangs.
Portrait of a woman with long hair. She is wearing flowery eye makeup and lip gloss, and has a fashionable scarf around her neck.
Digital painting of a woman with long straight hair wearing a baseball cap.
Painting of a fluffy black cat laying on crushed yellow chrysanthemums.
Photo of my hourly comic unfolded into a single sheet of paper, showing the cuts and folds that turned it into a booklet.
Final page, I am in bed with a book. The caption reads, “reading before sleeping. I am still reading John Berger’s essays in his Ways of Seeing. Good night!”
Another spread. First page is for 7:00pm and is divided into two panels. The first panel is a drawing of my pasta in a bowl with the caption, “homemade spaghettios.” The second panel is a drawing of Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen with the caption “and more Jujutsu Kaisen!” On the second page, there are two panels again, one for 8:00pm and the other for 9:00pm. In the first panel, there are two human hands, one holding a nail file and filing the other hand’s nail. The caption reads, “manicure time!” In the 9:00pm panel, I am sitting with my hands pointing downward to show the reader my finished nails. Actual nail polish was used to color the nails in the drawing. The caption reads, “fresh lacquer!”
A spread. First page is for 5:45pm and is me holding up a shirt with an unamused expression on my face. The caption reads, “folding laundry while listening to Alix Harrow’s Starling House.” I have a thought bubble that reads, “don’t tell me this will turn into a romance.” On the second page, for 6:00pm, it’s a first-person view of my arm reaching forward to stir one of two pots. The caption reads “cooking!” And there are two labels for the pots. One has boiling water for pasta, and the other pot (the one being stirred), is homemade pasta sauce.
Another spread, both for 4:00pm. First page has two of my head, one is in pain and thinking “ugh, headache” and the second one looks like it is having an Aha moment and is thinking, “oh, I know.” Then there is a close up of my hand pinching my hair stick, which has been holding my hair into a bun this entire day. The second page is a drawing of me with a relieved expression on my face. I’m holding the hair stick in the air and my long waist-length hair is cascading down. There is only one word written on top of the page: Relief!
Another spread. Page one is for 2:30pm. I am drawing flowers. Caption reads, “sketching plants onto 4 panels to paint either today or tomorrow.” Page two is for 3:30pm. It is me sitting at a computer. There is a Goomy, a Pokemon, on the desk next to the monitor. On the monitor is a broken heart. The caption reads, “Scrolled through Postsecret.”
Another spread. Page 1 is a drawing of Yugi Itadori from Jujutsu Kaisen. There is also a drawing of me eating a taco. Caption reads, “Jujutsu Kaisen and tacos.” I am saying, “He has to eat twenty fingers? Oh this is nasty.” Page 2 shows all my taco ingredients floating above each other. From bottom to top: tortilla, lettuce, lentils, avocado, tomatoes and onions, sour cream, and habanero sauce.
A spread. First page: I am wearing a hoodie, tea steeping in a mug next to me. I hold a few index cards. Caption reads, “8:45am - Planning and making a grocery list. Mostly Filipino food.” I have thought bubbles reading “adobo,” “siopao,” and “lumpia.” Second page. Panel 1: a car drives on a snow drifted road. There is a bird flying by. Talk bubbles read, “oh my god it’s the owl!” “Keep your eyes on the road!” “Nevermind that. Owl!” Second panel reads “10:30sm - supposed to be getting groceries.” I am holding a cd case. My talk bubbles read, “whoa, garbage.” The band’s name is Garbage.
Panel 1: I’m under a blanket drawing. Caption reads “Drawing in bed.” I have a talk bubble, “Tch!” Panel 2: a drawing of my hand holding a pen over the zine. Caption reads, “The title is squished. Do I cover it with paper and redo it? Or do I embrace my mistake? I ended up covering the S.
Cover of my hourly comic zine. An anime-style self-portrait with eyes that look like Naoko Takeuchi drew them in Sailor Moon. The title reads “Hourly Comic Day 2026, Heather Franzen.”
Digital drawing of a witch in a pointed hat, sweater, and long skirt. She wears a cape and holds a staff in one hand and a book in the other.
Half finished painting of a gyrfalcon perched on a branch.
Painting of a black and red bullfinch perched on a twig.
A vulture hunches over a pile of bones. A long, thin bone, perhaps a femur, dangles out of the vulture's mouth. Everything looks dark except for the vulture's striking eye, which stares directly at us.
Painting of a pelican soaring, wings extended forward.
Acrylic gouache painting of two sandhill cranes standing together in the tall grass during golden hour.
A digital drawing of an African Penguin standing on some rocks.
Painting of an American Bittern poking its head up above the reeds.
Portrait of a tui, a sleek bird with curly neck feathers and big white pompoms under its chin. Under it are some pohutukawa aka New Zealand Christmas Tree leaves and flower buds and blooms.
Sketchbook spread of a kitten wearing a bow tie, and three chickadees in various poses.
Sketchbook open to a spread of three fox heads drawn with ink. There are two faint, unfinished sketches in the background of a horse and a crab.
Portrait of a girl with mid-length black hair. She wears a necklace with a pendant on it.
A kea on a wall, starting off with a long squeaky call before walking right in front of the camera and then calling once more.
Painting of a kea, a green parrot with orange feathers under its wings, on an easel.
Big streaky aurora across the sky with a silhouette of a tree in the bottom right corner
Painting titled “Halloween Reunion.” A black kitten reaching up to three ghost kittens on top of a pumpkin.
Holding the paperback copies of Jeff VanderMeer’s Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution.
Ink drawing of a garden gnome wearing a witch’s hat and holding a broom. A chickadee perches on his hat.
Photo of a red-headed woodpecker fluffed out and hanging on to the side of a tree
Ink sketch of Jibanyan, a character from Yo-Kai Watch.
Screenshot of my Linux mint desktop with a wallpaper of link from the Nintendo switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.
Ink portrait of a witch holding a black cat. She has long orange nails.
Holding a card with an ink drawing of a black billed magpie perched on a post. Lots of bright orange in the background, looking splotchy and like flames.