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Chandler – 84 x 45 inches pen and ink drawing

July 12, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Chandler is an old high school friend of my children.  Last year I ran into Chandler and was struck by his great head and asked if he’d model for a portrait.  He agreed and I phoned and emailed him more than once or twice in an effort to schedule him into my studio.  He never […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Angela Geary, Computer Aided Manufacturing, Martini, Paul Catanese, Pen And Ink, Sgc, Videographer

Rousseau – 75 x 45 inch pen and ink drawing

June 29, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Our good friends Ed and DJ  were having dinner with us at a nice Westport restaurant and Rousseau served us (she later recalled that we were a ‘good’ table).  She was so pleasant and with such a mobile expression and well defined features and that wonderful tuxedo-esqu blouse…  I wanted to use her for a […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Dj, Drawing Painting, Face, Ink Drawing, Pen And Ink, Portraits, Printmaking, Rousseau, Tuxedo, Waitress, Westport

Exhibition: Daum Museum – Virtual Media: Computer-aided Art from the Collection

June 26, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Daum exhibit shows the computer’s versatile role in modern art June 23, 2010 5:19 PM John Hansen The Sedalia Democrat An artist using a computer to create art is nothing new, yet they are always using it to push boundaries. At the Daum Museum’s “Virtual Media: Computer-aided Art from the Collection,” visitors can marvel at […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured, Press Tagged With: Art World, Computer Aided Art, Computer Art, Computer Artist, Computer Program, Crayon, Crossover, Daum, Daum Museum, Digitally, Director Tom, Distinct Categories, John Hansen, June 23, Mash, Modern Art, Sculpture Artist, Sedalia Democrat, Things Computer, Tom Piche, Traditional Artist, Virtual Media

Michael – 74 x 44 inches large pen and ink drawing

June 21, 2010 By Mike Lyon

October, 2009, Michael Rees was one of 15 artists invited to Kansas City by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art for their 15th Anniversary Celebration.

Michael is a great guy, established artist, extroverted, outspoken, and a bit larger than life. We’d made a date for him to visit my studio and shoot sources for a portrait while he was here, and I thoroughly enjoyed him! After the shoot I went to a huge breakfast with Michael, his wife Mary Ann Strandell, and Chris Brown (another guest artist in town for the event) at YJ’s, the cozy cafe next door to Birdies (Peregrine Honig’s lingerie shop)… What a great morning — I don’t get out much — this was so VERY stimulating!!!

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Birdies, Chris Brown, Guest Artist, Ink Drawing, Kemper Museum Of Contemporary Art, Lingerie Shop, Mary Ann Strandell, Michael Rees, Pen And Ink, Yj

Jennifer – large pen and ink drawing 85 x 43 inches

June 16, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Images of new 85 x 43 inch pen and ink drawing of dancer and choreographer Jennifer Owen completed June 13, 2010.

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Ink Drawing, Jennifer Owen, Large Scale, Pen And Ink, Pen and Ink Drawing, Pen Ink, portrait

Raechell Smith Essay

May 28, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Raechell Smith is chief curator and director of the Bloch Art Space at the Kansas City Art Institute.  She wrote the following essay for the printed catalog of The Kansas City Collection, an eighteen month rotating exhibition of work by 15 artists selected from over 60 nominations. Mike Lyon earned a BA from the University […]

Filed Under: Press

16 Views of Peregrine Bunny 128 inch pen and ink drawing

May 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Accordion, Anticipation, Black Ink, Blurry Images, Hot Press, Ink Drawing, Ink Pen, Mouse Button, Moving, Pen And Ink, Pen And Ink Drawings, Peregrine, Peregrine Honig, Prints, Resolution Version, Scott Goldberg, Sequined Mini Dress, Trampoline, Variations, Watercolor Paper, Web Page

An Upholstered Bench with Eccentric Turned Legs

May 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

This month I built a bench for our living room.  It’s 18 inches high, 55 inches long, 19 inches deep and is the only upholstered furniture I’ve designed.  Linda and I picked out the fabric in advance and I intended my six legs to reflect the ovals design of the fabric. The six eccentric turnings […]

Filed Under: Featured, Furniture, Video Tagged With: Curves, eccentric turning, Fabric, Flat Chisel, Lathe, Legs, Living Room, Shavings, Turnings, Upholstered Bench, Upholstered Furniture

Peregrine 90 x 38.5 inch painting in acrylic and sumi on gilded paper

April 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed a LOOOOONG project — the painting of fellow artist Peregrine Honig in black and white acrylics over sumi-painted and gilded paper.  It’s somewhat larger than life. I first painted the paper black with sumi ink.  Then I gilded the clothing area in silver leaf.  My plan was to paint black on the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Painting Tagged With: Accordion, Acrylics, Black And White, Black White, Bunny Dress, Fellow Artist, gild, gilding, Honig, Larger Than Life, Painting Acrylic, Pen And Ink, Pen And Ink Drawings, Peregrine Honig, Peregrine Project, Silver Leaf, Sumi

Exhibition: Drury University: Pool Art Center Gallery Exhibit

March 27, 2010 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured, Press, Video Tagged With: Art History, Arts Faculty, Camille Dautrich, Drury University, Kansas City Art Institute, Mike Lyon, Pool Art Center Gallery, Rebecca Miller, Springfield Mo, Springfield News Leader

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