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		<title>Print Quarterly Review December 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For various reasons, very modest exhibition catalogues are sometimes worth noting in Print Quarterly. This is the case with Figuring it Out: Prints and Drawings by Mike Lyon (Manhattan, KS, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2009, 8 pp., 10 col. ills., free), which includes an essay by Bill North. For this photorealist printmaker has made use of his knowledge of computerized technology to create a series of digitally based colour woodcuts.]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2010/02/print-quarterly-review-december-2009/</link>
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		<title>Topper 79 x 38 inches large pen and ink drawing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Linda (the model&#8217;s spouse) phoned me last summer to say that she and her husband LOVED my drawing of &#8220;Arthur&#8221; which they&#8217;d first seen at the Kemper Museum&#8217;s Backstage Pass show, and again later at Arthur&#8217;s home.  She wanted to give her husband, Topper, a portrait (of him) for his birthday.  I thought Christmas might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2009/10/topper-79-x-38-inches-large-pen-and-ink-drawing/</link>
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		<title>Artist&#8217;s works inspired by Japanese prints, mechanics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 drawings by Mike Lyon” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2009/07/artists-works-inspired-by-japanese-prints-mechanics/</link>
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		<title>Road Trip to Beach Museum and Cafe Beautiful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2009/06/road-trip-to-beach-museum-and-cafe-beautiful/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Joanne&#8217; painting 35&#215;21 inches on tinted paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;Lee&#8217; completed a few days ago are experiments in the sort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2009/05/joanne-painting-35x21-inches-on-tinted-paper/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Lee&#8217; painting 35 x 21 inches</title>
		<description><![CDATA['LEE' 2009, 35x21 inches, acrylic painting on tinted paper]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2009/05/lee-painting-35-x-21-inches/</link>
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		<title>Jessica Paper Doll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 10x15 inches and &#8217;suitable for family viewing.&#8217;
Bill North and I had some interesting discussions about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2009/04/jessica-paper-doll/</link>
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		<title>Figuring it Out at the Beach Musuem of Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s web site blurb

from the Beach Museum of Art web site:
Figuring it Out: Prints and Drawings by Mike Lyon
April 14, 2009 -- [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2009/04/figuring-it-out-at-the-beach-musuem-of-art/</link>
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		<title>SGC Panel: Printmaking with Extreme Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Erik Brunvand invited me to join him, Steve Hoskins, and Ed Bateman on a panel during Southern Graphics Council&#8217;s Chicago convention  called Printmaking with Extreme Technology. Each of us spoke for approximately 15 minutes.
Printmaking with Extreme Technology (Erik Brunvand, Chair with Edward Bateman, Stephen Hoskins, and Mike Lyon) 10-11:30am Friday, March 27 at Columbia College, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2009/03/sgc-panel-printmaking-with-extreme-technology/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Linda&#8221; 77&#215;46 inch pen and ink drawing in spiral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2008/07/linda-77x46-inch-pen-and-ink-drawing-in-spiral/</link>
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		<title>A Second CNC machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last March, I began installation of a second CNC machine capable of work up to 60 x 144 inches in my 3rd floor studio. My first machine is now dedicated to wood carving while the second machine is for drawing and painting so I can now work several projects at once.
This turned out to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2008/07/a-second-cnc-machine/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Annette&#8221; 70 x 45 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know that I so much completed this drawing today as simply called it &#8216;done&#8217;. Either way, I&#8217;m moving on! &#8220;Annette&#8221; is my mother-in-law and she does NOT appreciate this portrait at all &#8212; she thinks it makes her look too old and wrinkly (she&#8217;s only eighty-one years old, after all) and just hates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2008/01/annette-70-x-45-inch-watercolor-with-pen-and-ink-drawing/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Crosby&#8221; 84 x 45 inch pen and ink drawing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Crosby&#8221; okubi-e (big-head picture), 84 x 45 inch pen and ink drawing is complete. This one is by far the most complex and involved drawing I&#8217;ve attempted with almost twice the line density of any previous drawing and over 10 million lines of code required to guide the machine movement. About three weeks to resolve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2007/12/crosby-84-x-45-inch-pen-and-ink-drawing/</link>
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		<title>Crosby pen and ink drawing with watercolor 90 x 45 inches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my &#8220;Sarah&#8221; drawing was first exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the founder&#8217;s wife appreciated it and invited me to create a similar life-size portrait of her husband, Crosby, a giant of a man and huge patron of the arts.  They loved this portrait and it was later purchased by the museum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2007/11/crosby-pen-and-ink-drawing-with-watercolor-90-x-45-inches/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Linda&#8221; 75 x 45 inch acrylic painting on unprimed canvas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working for a couple of weeks now on a couple of long-term fascinations of mine &#8212; painting with a limited palette in a grid, and my wife&#8217;s beautiful face ! I suppose this latest endeavor was inspired (in part) by the needlepoint stockings my wife and I are making for a niece and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2007/10/linda-75-x-45-inch-acrylic-painting-on-unprimed-canvas/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Jim&#8221; Collaboration with Lawrence Lithography Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Jim&#8220;, 2008, 43.25 x 30 inches, lithograph from seven plates on BFK Tan paper is available for $1,800 from Lawrence Lithography Workshop edition of 26 (or place your ON-LINE ORDER HERE).  Collections: Springfield Museum of Art, Beach Museum of Art, The Collectors Fund
At the opening of the Kemper Museum &#8220;Backstage Pass&#8221; show last month, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2007/10/jim-collaboration-with-lawrence-lithography-workshop/</link>
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		<title>Self Portrait, painting in acrylic on linen, 60&#215;40 inches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I completed something a little bit &#8216;different&#8217;&#8230; Looking back to the velvet paintings displayed at the 5 and dime when I was a kid &#8212; maybe they&#8217;re still up there today &#8212; hula girls, Elvis in all his glory, typical 60&#8217;s kitch in stiff opaque color practically glowing out of that black-black velvet&#8230;
Well, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2007/10/self-portrait-painting-in-acrylic-on-linen-60x40-inches/</link>
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		<title>Backstage Pass opened at Kemper Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Linda and I had a ball at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art here in Kansas City. It was the opening of their new show, Backstage Pass: Collecting Art in Kansas City which runs September 7–November 4, 2007.
 
By pairing artworks from area private collections with examples by the same artists represented in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2007/09/backstage-pass-opened-at-kemper-museum/</link>
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		<title>43 x 27 inch acrylic on BFK painting (self portrait improved)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This painting in acrylics on BFK paper went through several states and many weeks before arriving at an acceptable result.  Here&#8217;s the final state of the painting:
BFK is a very soft paper &#8212; because the tip of the flow-pen actually touches the surface, the paper becomes abraded (deeply abraded) as the tip repeatedly passes over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2007/07/43-x-27-inch-acrylic-on-bfk-painting-self-portrait-improved/</link>
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		<title>54 x 29 inch gesture painting (self portrait)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another &#8216;gesture&#8217; painting &#8212; this one uses the same gesture character set as my earlier (and smaller) airbrushed &#8220;Jim&#8221;, but the gestures are slightly larger (1/4 inch squares) and are painted using the Paasche Flow Pencil, so the tip touches the paper. It&#8217;s painted on Rives BFK, so the paper surface has been abraded quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mlyon.com/2007/07/54-x-29-inch-gesture-painting-self-portrait/</link>
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