Mike Lyon

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16 Views of Peregrine Bunny 128 inch pen and ink drawing

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An unusual edition of three original pen and ink drawings plus two proofs — drawing began in late April and finished up in late May.  Can drawings be prints? These are not at all printerly, but there ARE three identical (in the sense of an edition of prints) original drawings, each one measuring 18 x […]

An Upholstered Bench with Eccentric Turned Legs

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This month I built a bench for our living room.  It’s 18 inches high, 55 inches long, 19 inches deep and is the only upholstered furniture I’ve designed.  Linda and I picked out the fabric in advance and I intended my six legs to reflect the ovals design of the fabric. The six eccentric turnings […]

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

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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 […]

Drury University: Pool Art Center Gallery Exhibit

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Rebecca Miller (director of the Pool Art Center Gallery)  and I first met about twenty years ago while she was a student at the Kansas City Art Institute.  I was teaching karate twice a week there and she was one of my better students.  During the several years she practiced with me,  we became good […]

Topper 79 x 38 inches large pen and ink drawing

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Linda (the model’s spouse) phoned me last summer to say that she and her husband LOVED my drawing of “Arthur” which they’d first seen at the Kemper Museum’s Backstage Pass show, and again later at Arthur’s home.  She wanted to give her husband, Topper, a portrait (of him) for his birthday.  I thought Christmas might […]

‘Joanne’ painting 35×21 inches on tinted paper

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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 […]

Jessica Paper Doll

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Late last year, the Beach Museum of Art commissioned me to produce an edition of 30 prints in connection with the exhibition of my work there (which opened April 14, 2009). The prints were to be no larger than 10×15 inches and ‘suitable for family viewing.’ Bill North and I had some interesting discussions about […]