Mike Lyon

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“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

The Fisherman and his Wife

July 4, 1996 By Mike Lyon

This was  my first ‘traditional’ multi-block Japanese woodblock print.  It was made during a two week workshop taught by Hiroki Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado.  That was a life-changing experience — VERY stimulating — and launched me into a whole new world of moku-hanga (traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking)!  WOW!  Total immersion […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Blue Pigment, Cadmium, Carbon Black, Color Scheme, Dry Pigment, Fairy Tale, Fisherman And His Wife, Hiroshige, Hosho, Iwano Ichibei Paper, Japanese woodblock print, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Key Block, Living National Treasure, Moku-Hanga, National Treasure, Prussian Blue, Snowmass Colorado, Total Immersion, Vertical Grain, Woodblock Print, Woodblock Printmaking, Woodcut, Yellow Pigment

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