Mike Lyon

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Sarah – shin-hanga bijin mitate

April 5, 2003 By Mike Lyon

“Sarah”, 2003, 15.25 x 5.124 inches, Chu-tanzaku Bijin Mitate, Moku-Hanga, color woodcut This is a four basswood block reduction in Winsor & Newton Transparent Yellow, Alizarine Crimson, Prussian Blue, & Sumi with 28 color layers with a dark mica ground. 56 sheets printed in all in three variations. This one has a dark baren-suhi ground […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Applying Makeup, Ball Bearing, Baren, Basswood, Bijin, Color Woodcut, Goyo, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Moku-Hanga, Natori, Prussian Blue, Rei, Shin Hanga, Shinsui, Watanabe, Winsor, Woodblock Print, Woodblock Prints, Woodcut

Blue Shoes

August 17, 2002 By Mike Lyon

My primary model for seven years, Sarah, with her daughter, Lily in her blue jelly flip-flops. Oban Moku-hanga three color (Prussian Blue, Quinacidrone Magenta, Sumi) reduction on three blocks in 19 block states. One basswood block and two shina plywood blocks. On Baren Mall Yamaguchi Hosho paper (very nice!). Fifty sheets printed in all. Twenty-three […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Basswood, Blue Shoes, Grays, Hosho, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Lily, Moku-Hanga, Pieces Of Wood, Pink, Pinks, Plywood, Printing Techniques, Prints, Prussian Blue, Shades Of Blue, Wood Grain, Woodblock Print, Woodcut, Yamaguchi

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