Mike Lyon

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Rod

August 5, 2004 By Mike Lyon

“Rod”, August 5, 2004, 30 x 21 inches, woodblock print from 16 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 12 sheets printed, permanent collection of China Art Museum, Shanghai, PRC.

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Cherry Plywood, Dry Pigment, Iwano Ichibei Paper, Neri-Zumi, Rice Starch, Zumi

Jessica on dark drapery

July 1, 2004 By Mike Lyon

“Jessica on dark drapery”, July 1, 2004, 10 x 15 inches, woodblock print from 16 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 16 sheets printed.

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Cherry Plywood, Drapery, Dry Pigment, Iwano Ichibei Paper, July 1 2004, Neri-Zumi, Rice Starch, Zumi

Shannon and Danielle seated

June 30, 2004 By Mike Lyon

“Shannon and Danielle seated”, June 30, 2004, 15 x 10 inches, woodblock print from 24 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 24 sheets printed. I love this frank image of the two girls seated on the box in my studio!

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Cherry Plywood, Danielle, Dry Pigment, Iwano Ichibei Paper, Neri-Zumi, Rice Starch, Shannon, Two Girls, Zumi

Sarah (pink robe)

June 29, 2004 By Mike Lyon

“Sarah (pink robe)”, June 29, 2004, 7 x 22 inches, woodblock print from 16 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 24 sheets printed. Among my most ‘romantic’ images, this one of Sarah reclining in her pink terry-cloth robe knocks me out!  Another experiment in limiting […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Cherry Plywood, Dry Pigment, Emotional Response, High Contrast, Iwano Ichibei Paper, June 29, Neri-Zumi, Pink Robe, Rice Starch, Romantic Images, Terry Cloth Robe, Terry Robe, Zumi

Elizabeth and Rod

June 2, 2004 By Mike Lyon

Rod, my friend of 20 years and his girlfriend of two weeks, Elizabeth, came down in early June and allowed me to photograph them them… A LOT of interesting images came from that afternoon, including this one which I loved for its quiet contrast between her light and somewhat inflated figure in motion and his […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: 19th Century, Parodies

Sarah Reclining

May 26, 2004 By Mike Lyon

I think this image is pretty much a wooden sort of homage to Bonnard — another print of the same setup is much more like a Cezanne still-life, but this one harkens to Bonnard in my mind. It’s 22 shades of blue-gray are very close together, and I was primarily interested in contrasting the smooth […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Blue Gray, Cezanne, Drapery, Shades

Sarah

May 15, 2004 By Mike Lyon

This is an early portrait of my primary model, Sarah, whose image appears again and again in these pages. This is a detail from an image of her full standing figure made about ten years ago. I have been looking forward to printing this for a long time, but have lacked the skills I felt […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Infinity

Mia

May 5, 2004 By Mike Lyon

Mia reduction print — carved on my new CNC machine — very interesting thing about this one might be the weirdly reduction carved block?

Filed Under: Woodblock

Anthony

April 29, 2004 By Mike Lyon

This is the image which should have been printed from these blocks But it turned out that my radical method of dividing the color areas in those blocks was too difficult to control during printing and the result was singularly unappealing to me. So I recarved 15 large blocks as if they were reductions, and […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Bank One, Exhibition Catalog, Juror, Lake Charles Louisiana, Mcneese State University, Prints, Woodblock Print

Shannon and Danielle

April 25, 2004 By Mike Lyon

In this print I not only appreciate the quiet moment portrayed, but wished especially to challenge myself with the pinstripe pattern in Danielle’s robe. I was ecstatic when the tiny sections of stripes in each block were accurately registered during printing into a believable image. Whoopee! But the most beautiful areas of the print may […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Danielle, Robe, Shannon, Stripes, Variations

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