Mike Lyon

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Paul 83 x 37 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing

August 31, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Commission for Bunni and Paul Copaken on the occasion of Paul’s 75th birthday.  This large portrait of Paul on his bicycle hangs in their Aspen, Colorado home.

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: 75th Birthday, Aspen Colorado, Bicycle, Bunni, Ink Drawing, Occasion, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Watercolor

Cambodia-1 32 x 64 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing

June 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Completed June 13, 2012 – Cambodia-1 watercolor and ink (pen and ink drawing on pigment-tinted paper)

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Cambodia, Ink Drawing, Ink Pen, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Pigment, Watercolor

Cambodia 3 32 x 61 inch pen and ink drawing

May 23, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Another drawing of victim remains from late 1970’s Phnom Penh Cambodia S-21 prison

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Httpv, Ink Drawing, Pen And Ink, Phnom Penh Cambodia

Cambodia 2 pen and ink drawing – 45 x 85 inches

May 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

I’ll try to explain this series of drawings from S-21 prison in Phnom-Penh and the killing field not far away pretty soon, I suppose. The young men and women whose remains are the subject of my recent drawing were imprisoned by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia during the late 1970’s. Confined in S-21 […]

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Acrylic Glass, Ballots, Buddhist Stupa, Cambodia, Covert Action, David Roberts, Drawings, Gover, Human Skulls, Ink Drawing, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Regime, Killing Field, Killing Fields, Mass Graves, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Pete Domenici, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh Cambodia, Pol Pot, Political Prisoners, Quarterly Fall, Sardines, Sen Pete Domenici, Senior Lecturer, University Of Ulster, Us Electoral Process

“Misty” pen and ink drawing 82 x 45 inches

April 19, 2012 By Mike Lyon

My friend, accomplished figurative ceramist Misty Gamble, teaches Foundations at the Kansas City Art Institute agreed to model for me wearing her powder-blue faux fur jacket.  She was super-animated and great to work with and for.  I don’t really know ‘why’, but it seemed to me that a deep green paper color would suit this […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: April 15, April 19, Black Ink, City Art Institute, Faux Fur Jacket, Foundations, Ink Drawing, ink on paper, Ink On The Paper, Kansas City Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Misty, Misty Gamble, Mom, Pen And Ink, Pen and Ink Drawing, Watercolor Paper

Carlos Pen and Ink Drawing 75 x 45 inches

March 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

My friend, Kim Weinberger told me that her friend, Carlos Hernandez, had admired my work at the America Now and Here show and wanted to model for me – she introduced us over drinks and…  Well Carlos is a great looking guy and the following weekend he came to my studio to model for me. […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Carlos Hernandez, Drawings, Drinks, Friend Carlos, Friend Kim, Ink Drawing, Nbsp, Nice Guy, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Weinberger

pen and ink drawing of Miguel Rivera

January 25, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Miguel Rivera is chair of printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute.  He is a wonderful teacher – gentle and thoughtful.  He has a great face and as soon as we met I asked if he’d model for a portrait.  You can learn all about Miguel and see some of his work on his web […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: City Art Institute, Face, Ink Drawing, Kansas City Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Miguel Rivera, Nbsp, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Printmaking

Grass3 30 x 58 inch pen and ink drawing

August 30, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Grass3 was completed in August, 2010.  30 x 58 inches it took took an inordinately long time to draw. http://mlyon.com/wp-content/gallery/grass3/2008_08_grass3_588x400.jpg

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: botanical, Drawing, grass, Ink Drawing, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink

Rousseau – 75 x 45 inch pen and ink drawing

June 29, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Our good friends Ed and DJ  were having dinner with us at a nice Westport restaurant and Rousseau served us (she later recalled that we were a ‘good’ table).  She was so pleasant and with such a mobile expression and well defined features and that wonderful tuxedo-esqu blouse…  I wanted to use her for a […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Dj, Drawing Painting, Face, Ink Drawing, Pen And Ink, Portraits, Printmaking, Rousseau, Tuxedo, Waitress, Westport

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

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