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Lucy
@cyluho.bsky.social
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Scienc-y Illustrator - she/her - nature, history, disease and Death - I draw & paint & print - M.A. Integrated Design

📧 Cyluho@outlook.de
🛒 https://cyluhoprints.etsy.com
🌐 www.lucy-hollwedel.de
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I've got cute Christmas cards! And deadly skellies! And linoprints! And PENGWINGS!

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A collection of linoprinted Christmas cards sitting in a green velvet chair with some fairy lights and gold and white Christmas ornaments. The card on top is in portrait format and printed blue on brown. It shows a seagull with a Christmas hat holding a Christmas tree branch in her beak. A bauble is hanging from the branch saying "Happy Christmas. The card to the left ist printed black on white in landscape format. It shows a frog, a pig (from behind), a Penguin and a snowman ice skating in a circle in front of the night sky. The design is inspired by those victorian Christmas cards. The Penguin has a beak like Pingu and a band of cursive writing is coming from it saying "feels like christmas". The card in the middle is printed black on white and portrait format. It shows schematic flu viruses floating like snow. The center piece is a larger, more detailed one wearing a Christmas hat colourised with red water colours. Underneath it says "Happy Flu Season!" The card to the right is landscape format and printed black on brown. Its style is again a reference to those victorian Christmas cards. It shows the head of a goat in profile, wearing a Christmas hat and sticking out a very long, devilish forked tongue towards a snowman. The snowman is either very pleased or scared, he's wearing a little round hat and striped scarf. Underneath in white it says "Merry Bah bah bah". A natural science poster, upright format, made to look old-fashioned. The background is light brown, slightly darker towards the edges. The title at the top says „Pinguine / Penguins“ and in small, handwritten phonetic spelling beside that „pengwings“. The penguins take up most of the space and are contained within a thin frame. They are all painted as naturalistic studies with gouache and pencils, all in fabulous poses. They are puzzled together as fit, but roughly from top left to bottom right: gentoo penguin, adélie penguin, chinstrap penguin, emperor penguin, macaroni penguin, erect-crested penguin, royal penguin, northern rockhopper penguin, king penguin, fiordland penguin, snares penguin, magellanic penguin, Pingu, african penguin, yellow-eyed penguin, australian little penguin, little penguin, southern rockhopper penguin, galápagos penguin, humboldt penguin. Each has a number beside it corresponding to a number in the legend below, stating their Latin, German & English names. 🐡
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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If you see this post your bird art!

Never paid much attention to birds (except penguins, they were always the exception) but @peacorn.bsky.social really opened my eyes to their big beautiful world 🥹
A natural science poster, upright format, made to look old-fashioned. The background is light brown, slightly darker towards the edges. The title at the top says „Pinguine / Penguins“ and in small, handwritten phonetic spelling beside that „pengwings“. The penguins take up most of the space and are contained within a thin frame. They are all painted as naturalistic studies with gouache and pencils, all in fabulous poses. They are puzzled together as fit, but roughly from top left to bottom right: gentoo penguin, adélie penguin, chinstrap penguin, emperor penguin, macaroni penguin, erect-crested penguin, royal penguin, northern rockhopper penguin, king penguin, fiordland penguin, snares penguin, magellanic penguin, Pingu, african penguin, yellow-eyed penguin, australian little penguin, little penguin, southern rockhopper penguin, galápagos penguin, humboldt penguin. Each has a number beside it corresponding to a number in the legend below, stating their Latin, German & English names. 🐡
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Today is my day off so I'm only doing things I want!
Top down photo of a golden-brown buttermilk-soda-bread dusted with flour sitting on a wooden table. A bunch of camomille flowers in a glass bottle are next to it.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Today was insect day at my drawing workshop at the museum 🦋🐡
Photograph across some insect display cases at a museum. An open sketchbook lies on one of the flat cases with a couple of markers lying next to it. There's a marker drawing of Acherontia atropos (African death's-head hawkmoth) on it in naturalistic colours. The reference for that drawing is mounted in the upright display case above it. #SciArt
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Falalalafuck right off over to my Etsy shop: cyluhoprints.etsy.com/listing/1820...

While I'm working on this year's Christmas card, I've made all previous designs available again 🌲
Photograph of three small uncarved lino plates being prepared. They all have black ink drawings on them. One has the green parts of a Christmas wreath, on has a bow and some berries for the red parts and one just says "falalalala" in mirrored writing. The wreath is a reference to the evil one in A Nightmare Before Christmas. A collection of linoprinted Christmas cards sitting in a green velvet chair with some fairy lights and gold and white Christmas ornaments. The card on top is in portrait format and printed blue on brown. It shows a seagull with a Christmas hat holding a Christmas tree branch in her beak. A bauble is hanging from the branch saying "Happy Christmas. The card to the left ist printed black on white in landscape format. It shows a frog, a pig (from behind), a Penguin and a snowman ice skating in a circle in front of the night sky. The design is inspired by those victorian Christmas cards. The Penguin has a beak like Pingu and a band of cursive writing is coming from it saying "feels like christmas". The card in the middle is printed black on white and portrait format. It shows schematic flu viruses floating like snow. The center piece is a larger, more detailed one wearing a Christmas hat colourised with red water colours. Underneath it says "Happy Flu Season!" The card to the right is landscape format and printed black on brown. Its style is again a reference to those victorian Christmas cards. It shows the head of a goat in profile, wearing a Christmas hat and sticking out a very long, devilish forked tongue towards a snowman. The snowman is either very pleased or scared, he's wearing a little round hat and striped scarf. Underneath in white it says "Merry Bah bah bah".
November 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Another 75 done! This time the humpback. I think I might do 100 of each, just so I have a little wriggle room for misprints.

I need 90 of each and they will be part of a calendar ft 5 other print artists available at Kunsthafen Walle end of November!
Photo of a lino plate lying in the printing press. It shows the outlines of a humpback whale with an open mouth swimming after some herring. The plate is loaded with paint, black rising from the bottom towards a lighter blue.
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🤤

Original ref was that video by lud_adventure over on insta 🐳
Photo of a lino plate lying in the printing press. It shows the outlines of a spermwhale with a giant squid in its mouth. The plate is loaded with paint, black rising from the bottom towards a lighter blue.
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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We always had these little boxes with a screwed-on lid when I was a kid 😄
Photograph of part of a type case used as a nic-nac shelf. In focus are two small round boxes with drawings of mice on them. Above the mouse it says "Milchzähne" (=baby teeth). My wisdom teeth however were too big so that's what can be seen up in the corner. The other compartments are filled with shells and pretty stones and a little golden bug pin.
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Book fair was lots of fun but exhausting so the treat got pulled forward a little bit.
Photo of a lino plate being prepared: a sketch of two whales feeding below a layer of grey ink that now needs to dry so I can see where I'm carving.
October 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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You will not enter my cells this season! 🐡
A square gouache painting on white background: A grey virus with blue and red surface proteins is holding a grappling hook and wearing a black hat with a white skull on front. #SciArt
October 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Somehow this chaos always happens despite my best efforts but we roll 🍈🍈🐡
Photo of a desk with painting supplies and sketches thrown between flyers and a laptop. The sketches and the painting in focus are showing schematics of breast anatomy incl milk ducts etc.
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Started this today and I'm already as angry as her on the cover
Screenshot from the app StoryGraph of a book entry for "Witches, Bitches, It-Girls: Wie patriarchale Mythen uns bis heute prägen" by Rebekka Endler. To the left is the cover, a painting of a very annoyed looking red-haired woman with the title in big letters across her face. To the right the book info: 464 pages, first pub 2025 and 11% read.
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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I can't stop laughing about this ad - 100% me if I were a mom
Very real, not photoshopped ad pic from the evil A-site for a xenomorph plushy: A very "nice" looking woman with long brown hair, white shirt, jeans and a toddler with brown curly hair, dressed all in beige in their very real modern living room, supposedly playing with a xenomorph plushy.
September 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Everybody doing garden work, I'm just here as decoration

(I'm still not very flexible and somewhat restricted in movement)
Photograph of sketchbook held up in front of some tables and a garden chair with plants in the background. The tables are covered with flowery tablecloths. There's a dark grey/black folding chair positioned slightly to the right behind the tables. Two dark wooden beams behind it sort of frame the greenery in the background. A rose is growing along the left beam. There's a tree with what looks like bright red, tiny apples in the far left background. There's a tree with purple-ish, dark red leaves in the far background to the right. On the bottom there's some dried white-brownish flowers and some bright orange ones. The sketchbook shows a drawing of that same scenery on the left page. On the right page there's a drawing of a single yellow flower of Great St. John's Worth. Both drawings have a watercolour base with pencil structures and plants on top. Coffee cups and other coffee things as well as a roll of pencils spread on the table are left out of the drawing.
September 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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We caved and bought #Gwent yesterday at our local games store. Obviously I lost the first round but the card designs still make me so happy 💀🤩

Main drawback is they could have put more love into the board - it's just a flimsy paper mat that doesn't even lie flat...
Shot across spread out Gwent cards on a table. The faction is monsters and the card descriptions are in German.
September 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Bit of drawing at the museum this morning 🐡
Photograph of an open sketchbook held up in front of a museum display of a sepia and a horseshoe crab, both wet specimen in jars. The sketchbook shows a black line drawing on white paper of the common sepia. The line work is pretty detailed showing the wrinkles on the old skin, but not much shadow work except a few thicker lines. The arms of the sepia are arranged towards the ceiling/top of the page.
September 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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And that's #3x3thumsup2025 done ✔️
A white square with 4 square little paintings, 2 in 2 rows. All painted naturalistic with black lined sketches and watercolours. From top left to lower right: 28: A torn of and gnawed of pigeon leg, slightly bloody. The foot is still intact. It lays on the pavement, with a little bit of moss and grass. 29: A renovated amphitheatre at Phourni forest surrounded by light Mediterranean forest with a good view over Archanes. 30: Close up of excavated skull of a young person at Heraklion Archaeological museum, their head crowned with a bronze wreath with gilded clay beads. 31: The brown sign for “Phourni Archaeological Site” behind a rusty fence and surrounded by small pine trees.
August 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The decision to use this as a recap of July is proving to be a bit of a problem bc as it turns out there were several days where I didn't take any pictures at all... or just several of my birthday table. Oh well.

#3x3thumbsup2025
A white square with 9 square little paintings, 3 in 3 rows. All painted naturalistic with black lined sketches and watercolours. From top left to lower right: 19: Part of the “renovated” ruins at Knossos palace against a blue sky: A partly refurbished fresco of a red bull charging sits on the wall behind a row of red painted columns. 20: A modern gate that I thought was funny bc it reminded me of ancient architecture in a way: It has columns and decorations and a very rough arch made from modern building bricks. 21: Close up of the reconstructed “3 Ladies in Blue” fresco from Knossos at Heraklion Museum of Archaeology. It shows one of the hands raised in front of the body, part of the black hair and blue and yellow jacket. 22: A pathway leading along a fence. The fence protects Phourni archaeological site near Archanes on Crete. Behind the fence and to the right of the path is some greenery and larger hills in the distance in front of a blue sky. 23: Close up portrait of some sketchy dinosaur model I can’t identify. It was standing outside at Heraklion Museum of Natural History and had already taken some damage from the heat and sun and was also missing some teeth. The city is shown in the far background and again the sky is blue. 24: The sign of a bookshop in Heraklion: an open book, floating in front of an olive tree. Behind it are some other shops and suncovers, as well as a building with balconies. 25: A green watering can and a smaller yellow watering can stand on a wooden table, shown from above. In the upper left corner is part of the strawberry pot shown and in the upper right corner the lower part of the borage plant. 26: Part of birthday gift table: a picture frame, pink and yellow flowering plants, some cards and stickers and the book “Everything is Tuberculosis” by John Green. 27: Close-up of another part of the birthday gift table: a wooden coaster with a burned drawing of mushroom on it and a card with a drawing of a perfect dinosaur horse.
August 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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We do not talk about the hand.

#3x3thumbsup2025
A white square with 9 square little paintings, 3 in 3 rows. All painted naturalistic with black lined sketches and watercolours. From top left to lower right: 10: Close up of a piece of tree-bark fabric with an oceanic pattern in a museum display. The pattern consists of endless black, brown and white cubes that seem 3D. 11: A very washed out painted hand with green nails holding a lightcatcher: a golden chain with a moon and crystals in front of a wall. 12: A scribbled close up, part of a tomato plant in a brown pot. 13: A cat sitting on a stone fence post that should be to small for her, looking down into the greenery. The cat is very fluffy with spots of white and dark brown and light brown stripes. 14: A concert stage viewed from far-up in the stadium at Imagine Dragons Loom Tour in Hamburg Volksparkstadion. Left and right on the screens behind the stage a the singer is shown, lighted in pink. The centre screen shows the shadow of a shark in dark water. All people on and in front of the stage are very far away and small and only hinted at. 15: View out of an airplane window: The left wing of the plane is shown slightly from behind against a clear blue sky, a hazy bit of brownish land with coast and sea next to it. 16: Part of a very square hotel building with balconies lighted in orange, partly hidden behind palm trees. 17: A dark green tree overhanging a big rock amidst dried out grass. 18: A palm tree from below against a blue sky.
August 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Grief has been such a constant in my life and yet I still never know what to say. But I guess what I've learned is at least say something.
Photograph of a piece of watercolour paper on a table with a set of watercolours lying above it. On the paper is a naturalistic painting of a western honeybee sitting on a yellow flower. In pencil above it it says "Herzliches Beileid" [Deepest Sympathies].
August 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Bit late with posting but actual paintings were done on time! Little recap of July for #3x3thumbsup2025, my favourite annual challenge by @fruchtdrop.bsky.social - this is actually the 5th year I'm doing something for this challenge?!
For #3x3thumbsup A white square with 9 square little paintings, 3 in 3 rows. All painted naturalistic with black lined sketches and watercolours. From top left to lower right: 1: Close-up of a hawkmoth in a museum display. The moth has different shades of brown, the background is white. The moth is not fully within frame. 2: A street scene as seen slightly from above out of a window. A purple ice-cream van is parked in front of a bus stop. 3: A close up of a Japanese beetle on a wooden background, turned towards the camera. The beetle has a shiny green head and thorax, its abdomen is a light brown. 4: Part of a German small-town train station as seen from the top floor of a passing train. The platform shown is very grey and unremarkable with some shrubs and greenery in the background. 5: Two people in the fields. One is picking straws from a field of yellow wheat and definitely not cutting her hand by doing that. The other is standing in the path next to the field, watching her. There’s trees in various shades of green and purple in the background. 6: Frontal view of a pot-bellied pig at an enclosure. It has its snout on the ground, looking for food. 7: Top-down, very close view of a Valais Goat. It has a dark brown head with a big, very stylish hairdo and a little beard. 8: Close up of a dead may beetle lying between wooden chips with its little legs dangling in the air. 9: A freshly painted garden shed sits under the trees. Its metal roof is red, the sides are blue and the framing of the doors is white.
August 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Today's museum drawing session was focused on plants - the banana proved to be a particular favourite amongst several participants. I really enjoy coming up with themes and ideas for these sessions (and then participating myself 😌) 🐡
Point of view photograph from our drawing session. In the front lies a sketchbook with a brown piece of paper on it. The coloured pencil sketch on it is unfinished and out of focus but shows one of the banana plants in the background. The banana plant grows between several other tropical plants on terasses on an artificial volcanic island at the museum.
August 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Crete was very beautiful and obviously I'm already painting a vessel maritime style - made my friends paint ceramics with me for my birthday 🐙🐡
A collage of pictures from my sketchbook: the pages are filled with objects and motives from the Archaeological Museum of Iraklio with special focus on Maritime Style. This includes wave patterns, octopus, dolphins, shells and fish. A wip of a ceramic water jug being painted inspired by the Minoan maritime Style. The main object of the painting being an upside-down octopus.
August 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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I'm back from vacation and ready to tackle some portfolio work this month 💪 There's also gonna be a tiny little Etsy update, so keep your eyes peeled!
Photograph in landscape format in a hot mediterran surrounding around early afternoon. You can basically hear the cicadas screaming. A tree in the foreground is overhanging a large boulder and throwing its shadow unto the rocky ground. Behind the boulder a path leads from left to right. In the background there's a rocky hill with a couple of low green bushes and a patch of very blue sky. Photograph in landscape format at Knossos palace. It shows a "reconstructed" minoan ruin with a fresco supposedly showing the "minotaur" but probably just a bull charging. Only half of the Fresco still exists and it is very colourful, mostly blue and red. In front of it are some repainted columns, mostly the same red. In the background there are some trees, more cicadas screaming and blue sky. Photograph in portrait format at the Archaelogical Museum in Iraklio. It shows a couple of minoan vessels but focusses and a large Maritime Style one. It is decorated with an octopus with long tentacles spread all around the vessel. The gaps are filled with other maritime objects like shells, seegrass, or corals. Photograph in portrait format showing a fence and a sign against a very blue sky during early afternoon. The sign says "Phourni Archaelogical Site" and is surrounded by some low needle trees. Because what kind of holiday would it be if I wouldn't at least walk past a graveside.
August 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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This Master Thesis contains the blood (papercuts mostly, one dog bite), sweat and tears (also the dog bite) of a year of work and to see it out there in the world honestly made me tear up a bit. I'm so grateful to Erin & Erin for allowing me to play around with that picture book idea.
Black book cover: On the front it says in big green letters "This Book Will Kill You". The type is the same as the TPWKY cover. Above that, smaller "Lucy Hollwedel" and below "Based on the podcast by Erin Welsh & Erin Allmann Updyke". Below that is the realistic painting of a skull. It has pimpels on its forehead, ticks crawling out of its left eye, a snotty nose and crooked teeth. It has a reading sign attached at the bottom: a thin white band with a small handsewn plushy attached. It is supposed to be a little orange diphtheria bacterium and has a wobbly eye.
June 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM