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Homespun Technology for SGC

January 29, 2013 By Mike Lyon

Erik Brunvand curated a Southern Graphics print exchange called “Homespun Technology” and asked me to send an edition of ‘prints’ (drawings with painting). In this portfolio the artists respond to the theme of “Homespun Technology” in both literal and thematic ways. Some use their own homespun technology in the production of their prints. Others use […]

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Madeline Portraits – 20 x 33 inch ink drawings on watercolor

January 25, 2013 By Mike Lyon

In January, 2013, I made several portraits of Madeline, my studio assistant, looking to the Van Gogh self portrait dedicated to Gaugin.      

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Maggie 85 x 44 inches watercolor and ink (pen and ink drawing)

November 25, 2012 By Mike Lyon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN30BRx25xY The inimitable Maggie Rose Mull “Let’s Fall in Love” ukulele style As Eric Fischl spoke at the opening of America Now and Here, a young woman in the crowd stood out as though haloed in sparkler-sparks.  I asked my friend, Donald Rosenfeld, who is THAT girl? Don knew her and told me her name […]

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20 Sarahs – 100 x 70 inch acrylic and ink on four panels

October 11, 2012 By Mike Lyon

After painting a large (4.75 x 12 feet) sheet of heavy watercolor paper with red acrylic paint, I drew 20 images of Sarah jumping using white and black ink pens. The sheet was then cut into four 25 x 70 inch sheets, each with five figures, pasted with wall paper paste, and adhered them to […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Painting Tagged With: Acrylic Paint, Acrylic Panels, Black Ink, Feet, Hardboard Panels, Images, Inch Acrylic, Inch Sheets, Ink Painting, Ink Pens, Wall Paper Paste, Watercolor Paper

Marishi-ten and Sarah – 53 x 46 acrylic and ink on panel

September 25, 2012 By Mike Lyon

In Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, Marishi-ten is the goddess of the heavens, goddess of light, and a solar deity. Although Marishi-ten worship predates Zen, it is geared towards a similar meditative mode to enable a warrior to achieve a heightened spiritual level. Losing interest in issues of victory or defeat (life and death), he is freed […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Painting Tagged With: Acrylic, Fearless Warrior, Goddess, Life And Death, Mahayana Buddhism, Mortality, Solar Deity, Spiritual Level, Vajrayana Buddhism, Victory, Zen

Paul 83 x 37 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing

August 31, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Commission for Bunni and Paul Copaken on the occasion of Paul’s 75th birthday.  This large portrait of Paul on his bicycle hangs in their Aspen, Colorado home.

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: 75th Birthday, Aspen Colorado, Bicycle, Bunni, Ink Drawing, Occasion, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Watercolor

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)

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Cambodia, Ink Drawing, Ink Pen, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Pigment, Watercolor

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

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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 […]

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Acrylic Glass, Ballots, Buddhist Stupa, Cambodia, Covert Action, David Roberts, Drawings, Gover, Human Skulls, Ink Drawing, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Regime, Killing Field, Killing Fields, Mass Graves, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Pete Domenici, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh Cambodia, Pol Pot, Political Prisoners, Quarterly Fall, Sardines, Sen Pete Domenici, Senior Lecturer, University Of Ulster, Us Electoral Process

“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 […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: April 15, April 19, Black Ink, City Art Institute, Faux Fur Jacket, Foundations, Ink Drawing, ink on paper, Ink On The Paper, Kansas City Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Misty, Misty Gamble, Mom, Pen And Ink, Pen and Ink Drawing, Watercolor Paper

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