Visit with Jean-Pierre Hébert

I usually visit Santa Barbara, California two or three times a year to attend meetings and practices at Shotokan Ohshima Dojo. This year David Altman, one of my closest friends, and I traveled together to Santa Barbara for a special practice for our rank. One of the most interesting to me artists profiled in Paul Catanese and [...]

Post-Digital Printmaking

Excerpted from POST DIGITAL PRINTMAKING CNC, Traditional and Hybrid Techniques A&C Black Publishers, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc (pages 119-128) Chapter 10 MIKE LYON The ink is what makes the image… regardless of what made the marks, the paper has no knowledge of parts of the block that don’t hold ink -to the paper, [...]

Artist’s works inspired by Japanese prints, mechanics

K-State Collegian Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 By Hannah Blick The emotion in Mike Lyon’s artwork is inspired by old Japanese prints. The shapes are determined by the contours of the faces of his closest friends, friendly strangers, and the outcome hinges on the mechanics of his latest digital tools. “Figuring it out: Prints and [...]