Mike Lyon

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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

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

Hansel and Gretel

September 5, 1996 By Mike Lyon

“Hansel & Gretel”, 1996, 15 x 11 inches,  color woodcut – two examples, the second a later state with added imagery and design.

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Color Woodcut, Hansel and Gretel

Helicon cover

November 15, 1967 By Mike Lyon

“The Conversation”, 1967, color woodcut, about 11″ x 17″, cover for 1968 Helicon, (Pembroke Hill School’s annual literary magazine.

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Color Woodcut, Pembroke Hill School

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