Experimenting with plywood disks, rings, etc slotted at various appropriate-seeming angles for half-lap construction
Grabado Y Edicion No 36: Mokuhanga – Sosaku Hanga
g&e Grabado Y Edicion Print and Art Edition Magazine, No. 36, December, 2012 Processes: Mokuhanga Sosaku Hanga: Creative Prints by April Vollmer Sosaku hanga is usually translated as creative prints, and is used to describe Japanese printmakers during the first half of the 20th century who cut and printed their own blocks. Within Japan the […]
Dinh – 30 x 22 inches – pen and ink drawing in five colors
After a three-day karate special training, I asked one of my juniors, Dinh Hoang, if he would model for me. His eyes had ‘that look’ people get after hard practice, and I wanted to show that kind of metaphysical clarity. Details of completed drawing Details of work in progress
Rebound – 23 x 17 inches – watercolor and ink on paper
Small drawing, unusually narrative, colors just a teeny tiny bit saturated.
Team Sukkit for Epsten Gallery and Jewish Museum
Summer, 2013, Debbie Kaplan Glassberg recruited me to be “Lead Artist”, Sukkah Kit Team, ARTicipation: Abundance Garden Tasting & Sukkah Tour, The Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS. Debbie Kaplan once approached me with the idea of a kit sukkah and I replied with some simple sketches of plywood or plexi […]
Carrie Robe – watercolors and inks on paper 77 x 44 inches
I painted a large sheet of heavy watercolor paper with numerous layers of red, yellow, and blue pigments in water, then drew in black and white ink. I particularly like that one hand is drawn only with black and the other only with white while the interplay of the squiggly ink hatches recreate the illusion […]
The Bohemian Zine Woodblock Prints and Drawings
I was invited to design the covers for the July, 2013 Bohemian zine – four of the staff were kind enough to model for the cover drawing and the editor modeled for the ‘insert print’ which we folded up and saddle stitched inside as the centerfold.
Most electricity now comes from my solar array
Brightergy did an absolutely incredible job showing me how I could do my part to reduce carbon emissions and help the environment and showed me how affordable that could be – after incentives, about 12 to 18 months break even. Wow! Unfortunately, because half the cost was to be reimbursed by the reluctant Kansas City Power […]
Kansas City Star: Dana Self Review
The question of how to organize the visual and conceptual data that accrete as a portrait of a person is fundamental to Lyon’s work. While he answers the query technologically, he also answers it psychically. Each portrait coalesces identity into an ambitious exchange between sitter, artist and viewer.
Jill – 88 x 44 inches ink drawing and watercolor painting
For my 61st birthday in June of 2012, my mother-in-law treated my family and me to dinner at the fabulous Rieger Hotel Restaurant. We were seated by a very tall and slender (and gorgeous) hostess who was showing a lot of tattoo ink. I said I would love for her to model for me and gave […]
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