Danielle – developing two color drawing technique

I’ve mentioned before that I’m fascinated by Renaissance drawings on tinted paper with light and dark inks or chalk and charcoal.  Here are some examples by Albrecht Durer painted in white and black with a brush on tinted paper: My kids know of my interest  — for Christmas Scott and Andy gave me a variety [...]

Grass-2 large woodblock print 22.5 x 72 inches from 16 blocks

My lawn seems a near-perfect subject for drawings and woodblock prints.  Grass-1 was a drawing (not yet completed).  Grass-2 is a woodblock print — sixteen blocks cut two blocks to a sheet of 4×8 foot quarter-inch cherry plywood.  Grass-3 is another drawing under construction at the moment.  This format allows me to ink and print [...]

16 Views of Peregrine Bunny 128 inch pen and ink drawing

An unusual edition of three original pen and ink drawings plus two proofs — drawing began in late April and finished up in late May.  Can drawings be prints? These are not at all printerly, but there ARE three identical (in the sense of an edition of prints) original drawings, each one measuring 18 x [...]

Drury University: Pool Art Center Gallery Exhibit

Rebecca Miller (director of the Pool Art Center Gallery)  and I first met about twenty years ago while she was a student at the Kansas City Art Institute.  I was teaching karate twice a week there and she was one of my better students.  During the several years she practiced with me,  we became good [...]

Road Trip to Beach Museum and Cafe Beautiful

Sandy and Christine Kemper of The Collectors Fund organized a select group to make a road trip to see my exhibition at the Beach Museum in Manhattan, Kansas and then dine together at Cafe Beautiful in Lawrence.  We gathered at 1pm at the Collectors Fund offices in Kansas City, boarded our van, and started out [...]

‘Joanne’ painting 35×21 inches on tinted paper

Today I completed this (little bit scary) portrait of my Mom (Joanne) painting in white and black Golden Liquid Acrylics over paper tinted blue-gray using dilute sumi and prussian blue applied to the paper by wiping with a sponge. This and the previous painting of ‘Lee’ completed a few days ago are experiments in the [...]

‘Lee’ painting 35 x 21 inches

‘LEE’ 2009, 35×21 inches, acrylic painting on tinted paper

Jessica Paper Doll

Late last year, the Beach Museum of Art commissioned me to produce an edition of 30 prints in connection with the exhibition of my work there (which opened April 14, 2009). The prints were to be no larger than 10×15 inches and ‘suitable for family viewing.’ Bill North and I had some interesting discussions about [...]

Figuring it Out at the Beach Musuem of Art

Figuring it Out: Mike Lyon Drawings and Prints at the Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas opened April 14 and runs through July 19, 2009. Exhibition CATALOG PDF download also see the Beach Museum’s web site blurb from the Beach Museum of Art web site: Figuring it Out: Prints and Drawings by Mike Lyon April [...]

“Linda” 77×46 inch pen and ink drawing in spiral

Today, after 11 days non-stop drawing, I completed a large pen and ink drawing of Linda which sorta ‘marries’ my long interest in tiles and spirals with the squiggly cross-hatched drawings of recent years. I think it’s pretty successful and depicts my angelic wife (who doesn’t much mind my long hours in studio) with a [...]

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