Mike Lyon

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“Arthur” 77 x 42.5 inch pen and ink drawing

November 1, 2006 By Mike Lyon

“Arthur” pen and ink drawing completed October 31 after 282 hours — almost 9 miles of ink line and 8 million lines of machine movement instruction. This one used a new (to me) pen with oil based ink and I’m not very fond of this pen at all. Drawn on Rives BFK paper, the paper […]

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Arthur, Capillary, Ink, Machine Movement, Nib, Paper Surface, Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing, Solenoid

“London” 78×45 inch pen and ink drawing

September 13, 2006 By Mike Lyon

“London” pen and ink drawing completed this morning after 208 hours — 5.83 miles of ink line (just under 1/2 inch drawn per second) . I think I like it! 

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Ink, London, Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing

Exhibition: Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints

September 3, 2006 By Mike Lyon

An exhibition of my recent work titled: “Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints” runs September 1, through October 21, 2006 at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore, Kansas City, Missouri. Opening: 7-9 pm First Friday, September 1, 2006, hours 11-5 Tue through Saturday, 816-221=2626. Here’s the gallery’s mailer (folds are in the mailer, […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured, Video Tagged With: Babu, Darks, Faculty Member, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kansas City Missouri, KCAI, Leedy, Mike Lyon, Moku-Hanga, Painting Instructor, Scale Drawings, Seth Mnookin, Woodblock Print, Woodblock Prints, Woodcut

“Sara” 42×77 inch woodcut from 17 blocks

August 2, 2006 By Mike Lyon

The large (42 x 77 inch) prints of “Sara” reclining on her messy bed have been successfully completed — I selected 8 for the edition plus two proofs. There is some variation among the edition, the greatest differences being in the depth of the deepest tones behind the head and in the top background — […]

Filed Under: Video, Woodblock Tagged With: Baren, D Line, Deckle, Eight Months, Far Edges, Hosho, Hosho Paper, Inch Prints, Iwano Ichibei Paper, Moku-Hanga, Notch, Pencil Line, Pencil Mark, Proofs, Razor Blade, Sara, Sweaty Work, Variation, Video Documents, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

“Jon” pen and ink drawing

July 11, 2006 By Mike Lyon

“Jon” will be my final pen and ink drawing for a while, as I have now begun work on a third large-scale woodblock print of “Sara” reclining in bed — a bit larger than life-size from 17 blocks… More on that later — here’s the “Jon” drawing, 76 x 45 inches:

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Large Scale, Pen and Ink Drawing, Sara

Lily Drawing Complete 54 x 23 inches

July 7, 2006 By Mike Lyon

June 17, 2006 Today I am about a third of the way through another pen and ink drawing, this one of my god-daughter, Lily… Although Lily is usually smiling and showing off, I liked her ambiguous expression in this image… Yesterday noon, Lily and her Mom, Sarah, showed up at the studio with a half-hour […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Video Tagged With: Drawing Machine, Lily, Pen and Ink Drawing

Ethan and Arianna pen and ink drawing

June 14, 2006 By Mike Lyon

Yesterday (June 13, 2006) I completed a smaller drawing of two children, Ethan and Arianna. Pen and ink, but a denser line pattern — about 140 hours to complete on 45 x 31 inch Arches 300 lb. hot press watercolor paper. Here is a shot of the drawing plus some details — click the photos […]

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Arches, Arianna, Drawing, Hot Press, Pen and Ink Drawing, Photos, Watercolor Paper

Framed prints and drawings arrived today…

May 26, 2006 By Mike Lyon

What a wonderful surprise when John O’Brien called from Dolphin Frames to let me know that the framing of five of my new (large) works were done — Justin and Greg came by a short while later to deliver the things and here they are all wrapped up in their milky protective plastic wrapping and […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Woodblock Tagged With: Dolphin Gallery, Drawing, Framing, John O Brien

Pen & Ink Drawing — Shannon & Danielle

May 16, 2006 By Mike Lyon

Another life-size pen and ink drawing (extra fine point rolling ball pen) — this one of Shannon and Danielle partially robed, about 90 inches by 45 inches on Arches 300lb hot press watercolor paper…

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Arches, Danielle, Hot Press, Life Drawing, Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing, Shannon, Watercolor Paper

Elizabeth and Rod pen & ink 88.5 x 43.5 inches

May 8, 2006 By Mike Lyon

I completed another large machine drawing a couple of days ago (and a third was completed a few minutes ago — photo to come later). This is a life-size pen and ink drawing “Elizabeth and Rod” which is 88 1/2 x 43 1/2 inches.  

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Life Drawing, Pen and Ink Drawing

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