Mike Lyon

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54 x 29 inch gesture painting (self portrait)

July 3, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Another ‘gesture’ painting — this one uses the same gesture character set as my earlier (and smaller) airbrushed “Jim”, but the gestures are slightly larger (1/4 inch squares) and are painted using the Paasche Flow Pencil, so the tip touches the paper. It’s painted on Rives BFK, so the paper surface has been abraded quite […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: BFK, Character Set, Gesture, Paint, Paper Surface, Pencil, Photos, Portrait Painting, Self Portrait, Stroke

“Jim” acrylic gesture grid painting on Rives BFK 42 x 24 inches

March 3, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed a second painting of “Jim” using the 16-value geometric gestures from the previous attempt, but scaled down so that each is 0.2 inches square, producing an image about 40 inches high by 22 inches wide. The 200 x 120 gesture grid (24,000 squares) was painted more than six times using four colors […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Acrylic Painting, Airbrush, Gesture, Squares, Transparent Colors

Backsliding… “Jim” painting 80 x 44 inches (image area) — a colorful MESS

February 14, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Yesterday (February 13, 2007) I completed a first LARGE painting using an airbrush mounted on my CNC machine to paint 22,000 0.4 inch squares (200 x 110 squares) in four transparent colors on Rives BFK paper. One of 17 simple shapes designed to produce tone in even steps from lightest to darkest was painted in […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Air Brush, Airbrush, CNC Machine, Gesture, Haloes, Jerry Vegder, Pigment, Thick Lines, Transparent Colors, Watercolor

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