An exhibition of my recent work titled: "Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints" runs September 1, through October 21, 2006 at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore, Kansas City, Missouri. Opening: 7-9 pm First Friday, September 1, 2006, hours 11-5 Tue through Saturday, 816-221=2626. Here's the gallery's mailer (folds are in the mailer, not the drawing):
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-- Mike
Labels: Exhibitions, Woodblock
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The large (42 x 77 inch) prints of "Sara" reclining on her messy bed have been successfully completed -- I selected 8 for the edition plus two proofs. There is some variation among the edition, the greatest differences being in the depth of the deepest tones behind the head and in the top background -- these were introduced when I used the baren to print one of the blocks, pressing too hard about half the prints resulting in some loss of color at the edges of the block forms. Something to remember for next time! But overall the ten printed sheets are reasonable uniform, all things considered.
Here's a decent photo of one of the prints (compare to previous post):
"Sara", 42 x 77 inch woodblock print (17 blocks)
Permanent Collection, Beach Museum of Art
I handled registration a bit differently this time... The blocks were carved with three identical side kento, each about 1 1/2 inches long, and the center of the middle one was inscribed with a very narrow line. I used a razor blade to produce three flat edges in the deckle of each sheet (parallel to the edge of the sheet)so that they'd line up with the kento in the blocks, and I drew a short pencil line in the center of the middle 'notch' to be lined up with the line inscribed in the middle kento. Surprisingly, this worked very well, and I found it easy to register each sheet to the blocks, aligning the pencil mark with the inscribed line on the block. At the far edges, this resulted in about +/- .05 inch of dead on which is plenty close for the image and the eye. Given the size of the sheets I'm not sure I can do much better than that...
-- Mike
Labels: Woodblock
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