Mike Lyon

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Michael – 74 x 44 inches large pen and ink drawing

June 21, 2010 By Mike Lyon

October, 2009, Michael Rees was one of 15 artists invited to Kansas City by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art for their 15th Anniversary Celebration.

Michael is a great guy, established artist, extroverted, outspoken, and a bit larger than life. We’d made a date for him to visit my studio and shoot sources for a portrait while he was here, and I thoroughly enjoyed him! After the shoot I went to a huge breakfast with Michael, his wife Mary Ann Strandell, and Chris Brown (another guest artist in town for the event) at YJ’s, the cozy cafe next door to Birdies (Peregrine Honig’s lingerie shop)… What a great morning — I don’t get out much — this was so VERY stimulating!!!

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Birdies, Chris Brown, Guest Artist, Ink Drawing, Kemper Museum Of Contemporary Art, Lingerie Shop, Mary Ann Strandell, Michael Rees, Pen And Ink, Yj

Jennifer – large pen and ink drawing 85 x 43 inches

June 16, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Images of new 85 x 43 inch pen and ink drawing of dancer and choreographer Jennifer Owen completed June 13, 2010.

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Ink Drawing, Jennifer Owen, Large Scale, Pen And Ink, Pen and Ink Drawing, Pen Ink, portrait

16 Views of Peregrine Bunny 128 inch pen and ink drawing

May 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Accordion, Anticipation, Black Ink, Blurry Images, Hot Press, Ink Drawing, Ink Pen, Mouse Button, Moving, Pen And Ink, Pen And Ink Drawings, Peregrine, Peregrine Honig, Prints, Resolution Version, Scott Goldberg, Sequined Mini Dress, Trampoline, Variations, Watercolor Paper, Web Page

An Upholstered Bench with Eccentric Turned Legs

May 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Furniture, Video Tagged With: Curves, eccentric turning, Fabric, Flat Chisel, Lathe, Legs, Living Room, Shavings, Turnings, Upholstered Bench, Upholstered Furniture

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

Exhibition: Drury University: Pool Art Center Gallery Exhibit

March 27, 2010 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured, Press, Video Tagged With: Art History, Arts Faculty, Camille Dautrich, Drury University, Kansas City Art Institute, Mike Lyon, Pool Art Center Gallery, Rebecca Miller, Springfield Mo, Springfield News Leader

Chandelier

November 15, 2009 By Mike Lyon

360 individual castings assembled with 24 LED bulbs to make 48 x 18 inch chandelier:

Filed Under: Featured, Furniture, Video Tagged With: Bulbs, cast, casting, Castings, Chandelier, electric, furniture, LED, light, lighting, Mold, plaster, Polyester Resin

Topper 79 x 38 inches large pen and ink drawing

October 21, 2009 By Mike Lyon

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 […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Full Figure, Intricacy, Kemper Museum, Pen And Ink, Pens, Topper, Visual Artist

‘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

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