Mike Lyon

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“London” 78×45 inch pen and ink drawing

September 13, 2006 By Mike Lyon

“London” pen and ink drawing completed this morning after 208 hours — 5.83 miles of ink line (just under 1/2 inch drawn per second) . I think I like it! 

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Ink, London, Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing

“Jon” pen and ink drawing

July 11, 2006 By Mike Lyon

“Jon” will be my final pen and ink drawing for a while, as I have now begun work on a third large-scale woodblock print of “Sara” reclining in bed — a bit larger than life-size from 17 blocks… More on that later — here’s the “Jon” drawing, 76 x 45 inches:

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Large Scale, Pen and Ink Drawing, Sara

Lily Drawing Complete 54 x 23 inches

July 7, 2006 By Mike Lyon

June 17, 2006 Today I am about a third of the way through another pen and ink drawing, this one of my god-daughter, Lily… Although Lily is usually smiling and showing off, I liked her ambiguous expression in this image… Yesterday noon, Lily and her Mom, Sarah, showed up at the studio with a half-hour […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Video Tagged With: Drawing Machine, Lily, Pen and Ink Drawing

Ethan and Arianna pen and ink drawing

June 14, 2006 By Mike Lyon

Yesterday (June 13, 2006) I completed a smaller drawing of two children, Ethan and Arianna. Pen and ink, but a denser line pattern — about 140 hours to complete on 45 x 31 inch Arches 300 lb. hot press watercolor paper. Here is a shot of the drawing plus some details — click the photos […]

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Arches, Arianna, Drawing, Hot Press, Pen and Ink Drawing, Photos, Watercolor Paper

Pen & Ink Drawing — Shannon & Danielle

May 16, 2006 By Mike Lyon

Another life-size pen and ink drawing (extra fine point rolling ball pen) — this one of Shannon and Danielle partially robed, about 90 inches by 45 inches on Arches 300lb hot press watercolor paper…

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Arches, Danielle, Hot Press, Life Drawing, Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing, Shannon, Watercolor Paper

Elizabeth and Rod pen & ink 88.5 x 43.5 inches

May 8, 2006 By Mike Lyon

I completed another large machine drawing a couple of days ago (and a third was completed a few minutes ago — photo to come later). This is a life-size pen and ink drawing “Elizabeth and Rod” which is 88 1/2 x 43 1/2 inches.  

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Life Drawing, Pen and Ink Drawing

“Sarah” pen and ink drawing 7 x 3.75 feet Complete

April 11, 2006 By Mike Lyon

The first two papers I tried for this life-size figure drawing weren’t strong enough and they were torn to shreds relatively early in the process. I finally had success (after almost a month of experimenting) with Arches 300 lb. hot press watercolor paper — it is VERY strong and held up beautifully! The squiggly lines […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Video Tagged With: Arches, CCP, Darks, Drawing, Hot Press, Life Drawing, Norwalk, Pen and Ink Drawing, Squiggles, Tracings, Watercolor Paper

“Jessica” 14 x 5 inches pen and ink drawing

November 19, 2004 By Mike Lyon

A second attempt at drawing using CNC machine – I can see that holding the pen rigidly is problematic as very slight out of flatness causes the pen to push too hard or not hard enough (darker at top, lighter at bottom). In this one, I used raster approach and rotated the rasters in each […]

Filed Under: Drawing

“Jessica” 22 x 10 inches – a first machine drawing

November 15, 2004 By Mike Lyon

After mounting a rolling ball ink pen inside PVC tubing about the same diameter as my router, I was able to produce this drawing of Jessica by layering up the tool paths as if I were using the router to clear away wood from carving a block.  

Filed Under: Drawing

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