Mike Lyon

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Painting with Paasche Flow Pencil

July 1, 2007 By Mike Lyon

I’m working on a short series of painted self-portraits at the moment. I’ve mounted a Paasche Flow Pencil (very much like an airbrush, only without the air — the ‘nozzle’ is conical and a needle valve seats in the nozzle in order to control the flow of paint. The Paasche is not a very high-precision […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Painting Tagged With: Air Nozzle, Air Pressure, Airbrush, Bottom Of The Bottle, Fuzz Balls, Gizmo, Ink, Ink Flow, Needle Valve, New Painting, Nozzle, Paint Pot, Paper Surface, Parallel Surfaces, Precision Device, Self Portraits, Solenoid, Vacuum Relief, Valve Seats, Viscosity, Water Bottle, Water Flow

“Rick” 75 x 45 inch pen and ink drawing

March 27, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed “Rick”, another large scale pen and ink drawing, this one measuring 75 x 45 inches on Arches 300 lb. hot press watercolor paper.

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Arches, Hot Press, Large Scale, Pen and Ink Drawing, Scale Drawing, Watercolor Paper

“Anthony”, 83 x 45 inches, pen and ink drawing

March 21, 2007 By Mike Lyon

On March 19, 2007 after 240 hours of continuous drawing with pen and ink, I completed “Anthony”, a pen and ink drawing 83 x 45 inches on Arches 300 lb. hot press watercolor paper.

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

“Jim” acrylic gesture grid painting on Rives BFK 42 x 24 inches

March 3, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed a second painting of “Jim” using the 16-value geometric gestures from the previous attempt, but scaled down so that each is 0.2 inches square, producing an image about 40 inches high by 22 inches wide. The 200 x 120 gesture grid (24,000 squares) was painted more than six times using four colors […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Acrylic Painting, Airbrush, Gesture, Squares, Transparent Colors

Backsliding… “Jim” painting 80 x 44 inches (image area) — a colorful MESS

February 14, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Yesterday (February 13, 2007) I completed a first LARGE painting using an airbrush mounted on my CNC machine to paint 22,000 0.4 inch squares (200 x 110 squares) in four transparent colors on Rives BFK paper. One of 17 simple shapes designed to produce tone in even steps from lightest to darkest was painted in […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Air Brush, Airbrush, CNC Machine, Gesture, Haloes, Jerry Vegder, Pigment, Thick Lines, Transparent Colors, Watercolor

computer controlled airbrush gizmo complete

January 24, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Jan 22, 2007: Computer controlled paintbrush gizmo up and running as of 30 minutes ago!!! Parts for airbrush assembly – the airbrush itself is just above the angle iron with the solenoid already installed. Solenoid plunger above it, little bent aluminum airbrush retaining clips above airbrush – the angle iron gets bolted into the aluminum […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Painting, Video Tagged With: Aluminum Pipe, Angle Iron, Drawing, Gizmo, Ink, Paintbrush, Plunger, Relay Board, Simple Solution, Solenoid

“Jim” large scale pen and ink drawing

December 19, 2006 By Mike Lyon

Large scale pen and ink drawing — a portrait of my friend, Jim W. At 84 inches high (7 ft) it’s one of the largest of my drawings. I like the rendering of the hairs and of the fabric of the shirt where the woven threads can be made out in places… 

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

“Shea” 77 x 45 inch pen and ink drawing

December 5, 2006 By Mike Lyon

I’ve been using the Z-axis of my CNC machine to lift the pen from the paper during jogs to new drawing locations, but these very small movements of .05 inches or so have severely worn a single tooth in the pinion gear which moves the Z so it will have to be replaced… In order […]

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Axis, CNC Machine, Drawing, Pen and Ink Drawing, Pinion Gear, Shea, Solenoid

“Arthur” 77 x 42.5 inch pen and ink drawing

November 1, 2006 By Mike Lyon

“Arthur” pen and ink drawing completed October 31 after 282 hours — almost 9 miles of ink line and 8 million lines of machine movement instruction. This one used a new (to me) pen with oil based ink and I’m not very fond of this pen at all. Drawn on Rives BFK paper, the paper […]

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Arthur, Capillary, Ink, Machine Movement, Nib, Paper Surface, Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing, Solenoid

“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

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