Mike Lyon

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Self Portrait, painting in acrylic on linen, 60×40 inches

October 13, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed something a little bit ‘different’… Looking back to the velvet paintings displayed at the 5 and dime when I was a kid — maybe they’re still up there today — hula girls, Elvis in all his glory, typical 60’s kitch in stiff opaque color practically glowing out of that black-black velvet… Well, […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Black Velvet, Canvas, Carbon Black, Elvis, Linen, Painting Acrylic, Portrait Painting, Retro, Self Portrait, Titanium, Transparent, Velvet Paintings, White Paint

43 x 27 inch acrylic on BFK painting (self portrait improved)

July 10, 2007 By Mike Lyon

This painting in acrylics on BFK paper went through several states and many weeks before arriving at an acceptable result.  Here’s the final state of the painting: BFK is a very soft paper — because the tip of the flow-pen actually touches the surface, the paper becomes abraded (deeply abraded) as the tip repeatedly passes […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Painting Tagged With: Acrylic Painting, Airbrush, BFK, Chalk, Impasto, Painting In Acrylics, Portrait Painting, Renaissance, Self Portrait

54 x 29 inch gesture painting (self portrait)

July 3, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Another ‘gesture’ painting — this one uses the same gesture character set as my earlier (and smaller) airbrushed “Jim”, but the gestures are slightly larger (1/4 inch squares) and are painted using the Paasche Flow Pencil, so the tip touches the paper. It’s painted on Rives BFK, so the paper surface has been abraded quite […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: BFK, Character Set, Gesture, Paint, Paper Surface, Pencil, Photos, Portrait Painting, Self Portrait, Stroke

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

“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

Self Portrait

January 15, 2004 By Mike Lyon

Another mostly failed attempt to realize a full-color woodcut. The source was a water-color self portrait I painted a few years ago. The reduction print was carved from three blocks in various reductions. A ‘yellow’ block was carved and printed three times, a ‘blue’ block was carved and printed four times, and a ‘red’ block […]

Filed Under: Painting, Woodblock Tagged With: Color Woodcut, Gradations, Hosho, Reds, Self Portrait, Variations, Water Color, Yamaguchi

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