Mike Lyon – Page 23

Lake Table and Ten Chairs of Ipe

June 25, 2002 By Mike Lyon

This was a major project. A large table and ten chairs for our home at Lake Lotawana. The wood for the table base and chairs is all ipe (ironwood) which is extremely dense and heavy (it sinks in water). The wood is unfinished and weathers very well, but I later had to beef up the […]

Lennie Berkowitz Knock Apart Stool

June 24, 2002 By Mike Lyon

Lennie Berkowitz, retired director of the Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, gave me an unusual commission — a kitchen stool for her Cabo San Lucas home which she could pack up in a suitcase and assemble herself in Mexico. So I made her a knock-apart stool, complete with detailed assembly instructions… This is one of my “typical” […]

Cedar Stools

May 25, 2002 By Mike Lyon

These four stools are made of well aged cedar, cut from a single rough construction beam. Each seat is reinforced with a pair of cedar inlays on the bottom with the grain running perpindicular to the seat itself. The joinery is all wedged through-tenons, with the mortises cut wider on the outside and the only […]

Music

May 15, 2002 By Mike Lyon

This is an example of the prints I produced for Baren Forum’s 13th Exchange, “Music”. The prints are chuban, paper about 10 1/2 inches high. The print shown is a reduction print, printed by hand using Traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques and materials (except, of course for the reduction part). Traditionally, each of the fifteen […]

Blue Robe – first aizuri-e attempt

January 23, 2002 By Mike Lyon

This image of Dana turning in my yukata was my first attempt at aizuri-e (blue printed picture). I used only shades of blue in this Japanese technique woodblock print (moku-hanga). Later efforts included sumi or other blacks in order to increase the depth of darkest printings.

Pushing Up Daisies

November 9, 2001 By Mike Lyon

Lovers in a field of daisies are interrupted by the passage of a jet as it flies into the picture’s border. The title, “Pushing up Daisies”, was suggested by a friend, Jerry Vegder. Jerry called the morning of Sept 11 with awful news about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. While we talked, […]

Stools of Cocobolo and Curly Maple

August 25, 2001 By Mike Lyon

I completed four of these stools in August of 2001. I think of them as “counting” stools. One, two, three, four… one: odd leg / top two: pairs of rails three: similar legs four: sides The parts are made for two complete stools — one of maple and the other of cocobolo, but the parts […]

Heaven’s Gate

May 20, 2001 By Mike Lyon

“Endangered Species” print exchange for Baren Forum Traditional hanga technique. I carved eight blocks, four from shina plywood, and four from birch plywood. I used three Windsor/Newton watercolors, transparent yellow, quinacidrone magenta, prussian blue, plus prepared sumi and printed VERY dry on VERY lightweight kitakata paper. I wasn’t up to carving the tiny little words, […]

Two Stools maple and purple heart

January 24, 2001 By Mike Lyon

These two stools, successors to the Torii Stool, were made as a pair for the 2001 Kansas City Art Institute fund-raising auction where they were sold for $2,250. I was very pleased. Wedged through tenon construction — very beautiful where the legs join the seat, I think. A pair of stools.25 inches high 11 inches square […]

Child’s Rocking Chair

December 15, 2000 By Mike Lyon

Child’s Rocking Chair, Christmastime 2000, cherry seat and back with padauk inlay, birch and padauk laminated runners, amphormosa frame, shellac and wax finish. I built and finished this rocker in about eight hours from scraps I had on hand. There was no preliminary design, I just built it to fit my eight month old friend, Lily […]