Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

Clouds and Water

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“Clouds and Water”, 1998, reduction wood-cut on Hosho, 16 x 10 inches.   Chine-colle on blue backing, 10 x 64 inches.

Portrait of Jerry Vegder woodcut over archival inkjet

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My great friend, Jerry Vegder, HATES to have his picture taken!  HATES it!  But several times, he’s made the mistake of allowing me to photograph his very interesting head!  This may be the ONLY portrait of Jerry which he finds tolerable, since the tiled woodcut completely obliterates his image!

Burning Leaf Smell woodcut

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Printed in December, 1997, this small edition of tiled woodcuts was produced for Christmas gifts that year.  The muddy colors and swirly patterns remind me of the smell of leaves burning in our gutter each fall, a practice now long abandoned (and illegal).  These were printed from a set of one-inch birch plywood tiles with […]

hand stamped tiled woodcuts

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Over Thanksgiving we flew to Port Townsend, WA for a family get-together with my sister-in-law, Barbara Stanny.  I took along a tiny watercolor set and a couple of stamps I’d carved — a quarter circle and a half-circle.  I entertained myself on the plane ride by printing some tilings (one sqare at at time) on […]

Do it your self portrait

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Produced for a Hand Print Press print exchange (and summarily rejected SO unfairly by the short-lived curatorial committee) the text reads: Use a razor knife and straight edge to cut out the colored squares along the black lines. Paste 143 yellow squares over the 143 ‘M’s, 160 magenta squares over 160 ‘I’s, 186 red squares […]