Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

Shunga (spring picture)

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Pigment is Prussian Blue pigment suspension and sumi, both from Daniel Smith* mixed into a little home-brewed rice paste I cooked up from Lineco, Inc Neutral pH Pure Rice Starch (McClain’s now has some nice Japanese rice starch, too). I jury rigged a primitive sort of double boiler from my hot water pot heating some […]

Aspen (tiny woodcut)

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This was a ‘rush’ job for Baren Exchange #18 — someone actually had the cajones to drop out over one month AFTER the exchange deadline, and I was the next one on the waiting list. So I said, “give me a week.” and it’s been six days, so 31 of these go in the mail […]

Jessica Prone

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I used a Spanish Cedar block for this print — you can see the marked grain of the wood (horizontal light colored lines) in the detail below. The overall mottling in the color of the print is from the very textured (and very beautiful!) Inomachi paper.

Baren Puzzle Print

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“Puzzle Print” (after Toyokuni II), Maria Arango coordinated a Baren Forum collaborative print. Maria supplied each printer with a block (one piece of the puzzle) for “What is Baren” (Project details).

Jessica Turning

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“Jessica Turning”, woodblock print, 11 state reduction, graphite on Yamaguchi Hosho paper approximately 10″ x 7.5″ (chuban) completed October 21, 2003. This was my first experiment with graphite. I bought a one pound bag from Daniel Smith for about $10. Used about a teaspoon to produce these fifty-two 11″ x 8″ sheets (later trimmed to […]

8 of Diamonds

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Deck of Cards Exchange – 2003 The aim of this exchange was to create and print a complete deck of playing cards by using any printmaking media. 46 artists from all over the world took part in this project which saw creation of linocuts, etchings, woodblocks, collages and monoprints printed by the artists themselves using […]