Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

  • About
    • CV
    • Biography & Technical Development
    • Artist’s Statement
    • Contact
  • Portfolio
    • Drawing
    • Woodblock
    • Painting
    • Equipment
    • Furniture
    • Lithography
    • Silkscreen
    • Workshops
    • Video
  • Exhibitions
  • Representation
  • Press

Large drawing (Hal) with nested squares

October 25, 2018 By Mike Lyon

One issue with my simple drawing tools is that, for the most part, the mark produced is uniform in width and color (one exception is a brush. The brush can be pushed into the surface to make a thicker mark or pulled out to leave a thinner one). It occurred to me that, already having […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured

32 Small drawings with characters

September 9, 2018 By Mike Lyon

July through November of 2018 I made a slew of small drawings in ink on paper using the two AxiDraw machines. From time to time as I work, I’ll edit and modify my program code so that the way I produce images changes. Most coders I’ve talked with are careful to archive each state of […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured

Peregrine Bunny

June 8, 2018 By Mike Lyon

For several months I’d been immersed in a large commission piece for a very large corporation. It was a big project and was required to sign an NDA / non-disclosure agreement. There was a lot of back and forth as a number of executives added their input, taste, requirements to the pot and that made […]

Filed Under: Drawing

Linda

April 4, 2018 By Mike Lyon

This drawing was made on a full sheet of Rives BFK Black paper, using white ink and the AxiDraw. The image area is 11 x 8 inches, more or less centered in the sheet. I like the big black space and how Linda’s head floats in there.

Filed Under: Drawing

Dad and Linda: first small AxiDraw drawings

March 30, 2018 By Mike Lyon

The AxiDraw is a simple, precise, and versatile pen plotter, capable of writing or drawing on almost any flat surface. It can write with fountain pens, permanent markers, and many other writing implements to handle an endless variety of applications. Its unique design features a writing head that extends beyond the machine, making it possible […]

Filed Under: Drawing

Two small woodcuts using a wedged registration jig

September 14, 2017 By Mike Lyon

Many mokuhanga (Japanese technique woodcut) printers are using an L-shaped kento registration jig. This is so each block can be carved without registration kento and a corner pushed into the L-shaped jig during printing. One disadvantage of this method is that the block and jig can easily shift during handling and printing so registration is […]

Filed Under: Featured, Woodblock

Secret Garden (clover woodcut)

August 9, 2017 By Mike Lyon

“Secret Garden” is a view of clover near my Kansas City home, shot with my iPhone while walking Daisy, our dog. I still have this unreasonable urge to print more and more intensely complex images, but these dozen blocks, though not huge, took an average of around 20 hours each to carve (the longest carving […]

Filed Under: Featured, Woodblock

What if Christ died of natural causes?

September 9, 2016 By Mike Lyon

Having considered the act of creation through coding various processes to draw and paint, then documenting my code in my own image (see The code that moves the pen makes the image…), I’d been thinking about the use of religion as a tool of subjugation throughout history and bible-quoting conservative preachers, the Crusades, the Spanish […]

Filed Under: Drawing

Allyson 46 x 25

November 15, 2015 By Mike Lyon

Drawing designed in 60 layers of colored ink lines but output via large format pigment printer rather than pen and ink.

Filed Under: Drawing

Kelsey

October 25, 2015 By Mike Lyon

Kelsey Wroten is an amazing illustrator and graphic novelist. Originally from Kansas City, Kelsey now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. This portrait exists in two versions; first a pen and ink drawing on pigment tinted and painted paper; second as an archival pigmented (inkjet) print. Both were exhibited at the Salina Art Center where […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • …
  • 24
  • Next Page »
Subscribe to receive email notification of new articles
Loading

PDF DOWNLOADS

  • Beach Museum Catalog
  • Grabado y Edicion No 36
  • Kansas City Collection
  • Kemper Museum Catalog
  • Kyoto Catalog
  • Mike Lyon CV
  • Post Digital Printmaking (Chapter 10)
  • Technical Development

Follow me

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Copyright © 1968–2023 Mike Lyon & Lyon Art Ltd, Kansas City, Missouri, USA all rights reserved · Log in