Mike Lyon

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“3 Robes” 84 x 45 inches watercolors and ink on paper

January 23, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Carrie, Ross, and Johanna in yukata (summer kimono). Here I was playing with black and white ink over intense colors. The colors were pigment dispersions in water – the robe and body colors were brushed onto the paper register with the eventual drawing, then protected with a cut-out mylar mask while the background colors were […]

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Rebound – 23 x 17 inches – watercolor and ink on paper

November 14, 2013 By Mike Lyon

Small drawing, unusually narrative, colors just a teeny tiny bit saturated.

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Carrie Robe – watercolors and inks on paper 77 x 44 inches

September 3, 2013 By Mike Lyon

I painted a large sheet of heavy watercolor paper with numerous layers of red, yellow, and blue pigments in water, then drew in black and white ink. I particularly like that one hand is drawn only with black and the other only with white while the interplay of the squiggly ink hatches recreate the illusion […]

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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

Peregrine 90 x 38.5 inch painting in acrylic and sumi on gilded paper

April 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed a LOOOOONG project — the painting of fellow artist Peregrine Honig in black and white acrylics over sumi-painted and gilded paper.  It’s somewhat larger than life. I first painted the paper black with sumi ink.  Then I gilded the clothing area in silver leaf.  My plan was to paint black on the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Painting Tagged With: Accordion, Acrylics, Black And White, Black White, Bunny Dress, Fellow Artist, gild, gilding, Honig, Larger Than Life, Painting Acrylic, Pen And Ink, Pen And Ink Drawings, Peregrine Honig, Peregrine Project, Silver Leaf, Sumi

‘Joanne’ painting 35×21 inches on tinted paper

May 23, 2009 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed this (little bit scary) portrait of my Mom (Joanne) painting in white and black Golden Liquid Acrylics over paper tinted blue-gray using dilute sumi and prussian blue applied to the paper by wiping with a sponge. This and the previous painting of ‘Lee’ completed a few days ago are experiments in the […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Painting, Video Tagged With: Amazon, Bumpy Surface, Chicago Art Institute, Exhibition, Fabulous Catalog, Few Days, Goldman, Gradations, Httpv, Impasto, Italian Drawings, Joanne, Liquid Acrylics, Lithograph, Little Bit, Paint, Previous Painting, Prussian Blue, Sponge, Sumi

‘Lee’ painting 35 x 21 inches

May 21, 2009 By Mike Lyon

‘LEE’ 2009, 35×21 inches, acrylic painting on tinted paper

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Painting, Video Tagged With: Black Paint, Blue Pigment, Painting, Pencil, Sponge, Sumi, White Paint

Crosby watercolor and ink 90 x 45 inches

November 26, 2007 By Mike Lyon

When my “Sarah” drawing was first exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the founder’s wife appreciated it and invited me to create a similar life-size portrait of her husband, Crosby, a giant of a man and huge patron of the arts.  They loved this portrait and it was later purchased by the museum […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Painting Tagged With: Arches, Black Ink, Crosby, Flat Colors, Frisket, Gizmo, Hot Iron, Hot Press, Kemper Museum, Monotypes, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Patron Of The Arts, Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing, Self Portrait, Watercolor Paper, Watercolor Washes

“Linda” 75 x 45 inch acrylic painting on unprimed canvas

October 29, 2007 By Mike Lyon

I’ve been working for a couple of weeks now on a couple of long-term fascinations of mine — painting with a limited palette in a grid, and my wife’s beautiful face ! I suppose this latest endeavor was inspired (in part) by the needlepoint stockings my wife and I are making for a niece and […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Acrylic Painting, Bitmap Images, Cadmium, Darks, KCAI, Needle Point, Overspray, Yellow Medium, YouTube

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