Category Archives: Summer

Blog Archive with Illustrations, Drawings, Graphic and Design for the Subject of Summer, Season, Weather, May, June, July, August, Warmth, Heat, Sun, Holiday and Vacation by the Beach by Iris Luckhaus, freelance Illustrator and Designer residing in Wuppertal and Berlin, Germany.

Personal Work | Lola at the Beach

With the series Lola macht Urlaub, I experiment with new techniques, patterns and colours between other projects. Inspired by almost summerish days, I tried to picture the slothy happiness of a warm, sunny afternoon by the sea. … ➔

Summer cards crafted with dressup doll Gerti

Via Instagram, I discovered lots of cards which DIY bloggers crafted with the stamp and die set “Gerti geht baden” (Gerti goes swimming) by Charlie & Paulchen – and some of them are so amazing, unique and full of stunning ideas that I just can’t stop looking, so I thought it would be nice to show them here and recommend those bloggers! … ➔

Summer for Dressup Doll »Gerti geht baden«

Gerti, the DIY dressup doll I designed, styled and illustrated as stamps and dies for the online shop Charlie & Paulchen, just got her third set of clothes and accessories for the summer! The fresh set is called »Gerti geht baden« (Gerti takes a bath), and it contains everything you need for a lovely day full of fun by the sea or by the lake!… ➔

Personal Work | Lola in the Café

With the series Lola macht Urlaub (Lola is on vacation), I experiment with new techniques, patterns and colours inbetween other projects. Inspired by late winter, I tried to catch a summer evening in a French café here.… ➔

Fresh Feature on The Creative Finder

“Feminine illustrations by Iris Luckhaus on The Creative Finder” [TCF on Twitter, 11.9.2017] – Thank you!

Trali trala, finally a summer break!

We’re taking a little break for summer – and look forward to September, when we’ll continue fresh and rested, and when I can finally show you all the wonderful projects I’ve been working on but am not supposed to show yet!

Lily Lux Online | Gifts and Games for the Summer

For the meteorologial inception of summer, we uploaded some fresh wallpapers and electronic greeting cards at Lily Lux, and we frequently post a #Sommerglück to Facebook and Twitter. We wish you a wonderful summer!

Art Prints | Seascape IV (Jackknife)

Inbetween, and with quite some longing for summer warmth and vacations, I complemented my monochromous “Seascape” series with a jackknife into the ocean, and soon this will be availbale as an artprint! … ➔

Art Prints | Seascape I (Seaview) Edit

Inbetween, I carefully reworked the very first, stormy scene from my “Seascape” series – and soon, the fashionista on an ocean liner will be available as an artprint, next to the other parts of that series! … ➔

Art Print | Amy and May in Retro-Paris

I really like those bichrome book illustrations from the Sixties, and for a long time, I wanted to try out how that style might work with my girls. Today, as the weather is nice, I long for Paris, and I’m waiting for some client feedback, I’ve drawn Amy (who likes to call herself “Aimée” in Paris), all dressed up for a walking her little dog, May, in the city. … ➔

Art Print in Screen Print Styles | Swimming Pool

While I’m working on confidential projects which I can’t share here, I’d like to show some in-between personal work. Here are further tests with bichrome vacation motives, which I’d really like to print myself someday.… ➔

Emmy & Patty Postcards for EmpaTrain

Emmy und Patty, which I drew a couple of years ago for a breakfast board for EmpaTrain, are now – slightly reformatted – available as postcards as well! The giraffe, in its role as a symbolic animal for empathy, twas supposed to be a central element in this illustration, and how “Empathy means understanding each other without words”.… ➔

Lily Lux Online | Gifts and Games for the Summer

Tiny People in Paris | Anna & Max | Anniversary III

Anna and Max are spending their 50th anniversary in the city of love. Together with dachshund Waldemar, they take a very long walk to visit many beautiful (and well-known) places. – This little drawn story has been rearranged and edited from my unpublished Hide-and-Seek Paris book for children and grownups. … ➔

Tiny People in Paris | Anna & Max | Anniversary II

Tiny People in Paris | Anna & Max | Anniversary

Fresh Feature | “Portfolio of the Day” on Designtaxi

And how very awesome to discover a few days later that Emmy und Patty (my breakfast board for EmpaTrain) had been featured in the Designtaxi Newsletter as “Portfolio of the Day”!

Tiny People in Paris | Lily & Polly | Shopping I

Lila and Polly are going shopping together and just discovered some lovely macarons in a Rosalie’s little pâtisserie. Soon, they will explore more place (= to be continued). – This little drawn story has been rearranged and edited from my unpublished Hide-and-Seek Paris book for children and grownups. … ➔

Sommerferien

Lily Lux Online | Gifts and Games for the Summer

Art Print in Screen Print Style | Panorama

I had a little time in between and tried some new styles with old poses. It’s so much fun to work a little rougher and with only two colours! And to think about making my own screen prints. … ➔

Kunstdruck | Seascape III (Diving in)

Those girls are a lot of fun to draw right now (especially as the hair is completely black and I don’t have to draw the usual strands which look pretty but are a terrible lot of work) – slowly this is becoming a series, and maybe prints at some point? … ➔

Art Print | Seascape II (Coquetry)

I just started to scan some of my small, simple in between sketches and to try out some new styles… which is great, great fun. And it looks like the greyish seascapes are slowly becoming a series, following the first try last year (image below). … ➔

Kleine Leute in Paris | Souvenirs

I decided to refuse the Hide-and-Seek book about Paris, mainly because (a) big top views of a rather flat place do not work well in my twodimensional “dollhouse” perspectives (if Paris had more hills and stairs, it might actually have worked!), and (b) drawing a whole city which really exists makes me want to illustrate absolutely every detail I discovered there – but unfortunately, this would take several years. Besides, I realised that there are illustrators whose whole style is a much better fit for such a project – and that I don’t have to be able to draw everything. … ➔

Anthology | Lily, Sixgirl and Mayfair in IO Sedbook

Today, the freshly printed very first IO Sedbook by the Illustratoren Organisation arrived in my mailbox, and I’m on a double page filed under “Style und Fashion”! … ➔

Tiny People in Paris | Merry Go Round

Right now, I’m working on a wonderful project for the Wimmelbuchverlag, for which I am drawing very different from my usual style. Here in the blog, I’d like to share some little scenes and excerpts every now and then. … ➔

Celebration | First summer weekends

Anthology | Zeixs Cube “Illustration II”

After receiving the Zeixs Cube “Poster Design II”, I found the “Illustration II” in my mailbox today – it contains splendid twelve(!!!) pages with my girls, some of them unpublished scenes from Lily Lux… Thank you very much, Marc!!! … ➔

Cristabelles for Schock Material Brochure

Illustrations for a material brochure by Schock, a producer of granite sinks. My briefing was to contrast two different material lines by using the idea and mood behind them. So, this is my design for the younger, more trendy and astonishingly colourful Cristalite series: Three friends take a break from shopping, chat, drink coffee and eat pastel coloured cupackes in a street café. … ➔