Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

hand stamped tiled woodcuts

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Over Thanksgiving we flew to Port Townsend, WA for a family get-together with my sister-in-law, Barbara Stanny.  I took along a tiny watercolor set and a couple of stamps I’d carved — a quarter circle and a half-circle.  I entertained myself on the plane ride by printing some tilings (one sqare at at time) on […]

The Fisherman and his Wife

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This was  my first ‘traditional’ multi-block Japanese woodblock print.  It was made during a two week workshop taught by Hiroki Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado.  That was a life-changing experience — VERY stimulating — and launched me into a whole new world of moku-hanga (traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking)!  WOW!  Total immersion […]

Dog Dream reduction woodcut

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My original drawing was done very quickly in pencil, then color was indicated using colored pencil. All colored areas in the prints were printed from a single block printed and reduced by carving through many printings.  First the areas to remain white were removed by carving the block. then the block was printed in pale […]

1996 woodcuts

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Early in 1996, for reasons I still don’t understand, really, I became fascinated by Japanese woodblock printmaking technique.  In January, I registered for a two week long workshop to be taught by Hiroke Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado — but I was waitlisted and didn’t know until shortly before the workshop […]

Pat relief print

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“Pat”, 1994, 24 x 24 inches,  four color tiled plexi-block print on Rives BFK paper. Printed across four block arrangments in four litho ink colors (red, yellow, blue, black).