Mike Lyon

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Laser Engraver in the House

December 22, 2023 By Mike Lyon

The OmTech 100 watt CO2 laser engraver was delivered to my studio December 22, 2022. The truck pulled up behind my studio and the burly driver got the huge crate into the snowy alley near the door into my studio. He managed to shove it onto my hand truck and I pulled while he pushed […]

Filed Under: Equipment

“Madz” mokuhanga 31 x 22 inches

April 11, 2023 By Mike Lyon

Portrait of the artist Madeline Cass. Madeline was my studio assistant 2012-2013. “Madz” is another in a series of images composed of code-generated spirals whose number of wraps is related to the average value (lightness/darkness) of a corresponding area in a reference image. I wrote the initial version of the current state of my code […]

Filed Under: Featured, Woodblock

untitled (self portrait) 35 x 35 inches acrylic on canvas

February 15, 2020 By Mike Lyon

Overlapping square spirals in white and black over a red ground.

Filed Under: Featured, Painting

untitled (self portrait) – 48 x 48 inches – acrylic on canvas

January 31, 2020 By Mike Lyon

Another painting with intense patterns in the overlapping square-spirals in five colors. Right-click and select “open in new tab” then click the “+” to view the image at full scale (the details are better than the image).

Filed Under: Painting, Uncategorized

Valentine Linda – 48 x 48 inches – acrylic on canvas

January 20, 2020 By Mike Lyon

I thought of this image as “The Valentine Portrait” of my wife, Linda because of the big heart shape formed by the eyebrows and the ‘V’ of her chin in her hands. Note: most images on this site can be viewed full scale by right-clicking on the image and selecting “open link in new tab” […]

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Linda – acrylic on canvas – 35 x 35 inches

December 15, 2019 By Mike Lyon

Black and white square spirals on gray ground, the black augmented by spirals in a narrower line width. I think this painting begins to balance traditional materials with novel computed tool manipulation – the process and the image become more balanced.

Filed Under: Featured, Painting

untitled (self-portrait)

November 21, 2019 By Mike Lyon

Experiment with a palette of green, orange, blue, black, and white square spirals.

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PRINTKITE Collaboration with Koichi Yamamoto

September 19, 2019 By Mike Lyon

I met Koichi Yamamoto in early November of 2016 during my term as adjunct professor of printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute. Koichi was/is a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and spent a day or two demonstrating copper engraving and printing on very light gampi paper which he printed, then folded […]

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Linda in Black (mokuhanga) 41 x 29.5 inches

April 17, 2019 By Mike Lyon

Because of the way the four sets of spirals overlap in my painting Linda in Black, it seemed to be a perfect design for mokuhanga (Japanese technique woodcut). I isolated the four layers of square spiral I’d generated for the painting into four block plans: The spiral density (the number of revolutions of line in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Woodblock

untitled (four self-portrait variations ) 36 x 153 inches )

March 11, 2019 By Mike Lyon

Painted in overlapping rectangular (rather than square) spirals, each of the four canvases that make up this work is different but similar. The colors were painted in the same order on each canvas, but the orientation of the rectangles was varied so that, although the reference images are identical, each painting is different. I think […]

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