Drawing – Page 3

Cambodia-1 32 x 64 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing

June 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Completed June 13, 2012 – Cambodia-1 watercolor and ink (pen and ink drawing on pigment-tinted paper)

Cambodia 3 32 x 61 inch pen and ink drawing

May 23, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Another drawing of victim remains from late 1970’s Phnom Penh Cambodia S-21 prison

Cambodia 2 pen and ink drawing – 45 x 85 inches

May 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

I’ll try to explain this series of drawings from S-21 prison in Phnom-Penh and the killing field not far away pretty soon, I suppose. The young men and women whose remains are the subject of my recent drawing were imprisoned by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia during the late 1970’s. Confined in S-21 […]

“Misty” pen and ink drawing 82 x 45 inches

April 19, 2012 By Mike Lyon

My friend, accomplished figurative ceramist Misty Gamble, teaches Foundations at the Kansas City Art Institute agreed to model for me wearing her powder-blue faux fur jacket. She was super-animated and great to work with and for. I don’t really know ‘why’, but it seemed to me that a deep green paper color would suit this […]

Carlos Pen and Ink Drawing 75 x 45 inches

March 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

My friend, Kim Weinberger told me that her friend, Carlos Hernandez, had admired my work at the America Now and Here show and wanted to model for me – she introduced us over drinks and… Well Carlos is a great looking guy and the following weekend he came to my studio to model for me. […]

pen and ink drawing of Miguel Rivera

January 25, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Miguel Rivera is chair of printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute. He is a wonderful teacher – gentle and thoughtful. He has a great face and as soon as we met I asked if he’d model for a portrait. You can learn all about Miguel and see some of his work on his web […]

Danson pen and ink drawing 81 x 42 inches white and black pen on paper tinted rich brown

September 21, 2011 By Mike Lyon

Drawing of my friend Danson – again, white and black ink pen on tinted paper. In this piece, I really LOVE the color I painted on the paper. It was so luscious I hesitated to draw over it. I’ve been layering up these colors, mixing pigment suspensions in water and using a spritzer to apply […]

“Scotty” pen and ink drawing 92 x 45 inches on watercolor tinted paper

September 7, 2011 By Mike Lyon

Artist Archie Scott Gobber generously agreed to model for me. We had a pretty good time together — I’d asked him to bring along something of his work and I was thinking he’d bring something large I could place behind him when I photographed him. He brought some very small stuff, actually and I got […]

Robin 85 x 45 inches – large scale pen and ink drawing in white, blue, black inks on watercolor tinted paper

April 14, 2011 By Mike Lyon

Robin Carnahan portrait completed April 14, 2011. I first tinted the paper a deep blue using Prussian Blue and Carbon Black pigment suspensions in water. Then I drew in layers of white ink, blue ink, and black ink back and forth until I felt the drawing was no longer improved.

“Joel” Large Scale Pen and Ink Drawing in White and Black Ink on Tinted Paper

March 24, 2011 By Mike Lyon

REALLY love this one! I was tempted to title it “this is not Joe’s face” after Magritte’s famous not-a-pipe. In 1991 I was in Japan with a group of US, Canadian, and European karate guys led by Tsutomu Ohshima. Ohshima Sensei organized a fabulous and exhausting tour which included visits to Hiroshima, Miyajima, Kyoto — […]