Mike Lyon

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Self Portrait, painting in acrylic on linen, 60×40 inches

October 13, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed something a little bit ‘different’… Looking back to the velvet paintings displayed at the 5 and dime when I was a kid — maybe they’re still up there today — hula girls, Elvis in all his glory, typical 60’s kitch in stiff opaque color practically glowing out of that black-black velvet… Well, […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Black Velvet, Canvas, Carbon Black, Elvis, Linen, Painting Acrylic, Portrait Painting, Retro, Self Portrait, Titanium, Transparent, Velvet Paintings, White Paint

Triangle tiled scroll woodcuts

September 6, 1999 By Mike Lyon

I made three large woodcut ‘scrolls’ in September of 1999. Two of them were installed in the Zen Garden Room I designed and built for the UMB Technology Center in Kansas city. Two of the prints were similar (I kept one for myself), and the third was twice as wide. I had already cut a bunch […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Block Printing, Brads, Japanese Paper, Japanese Scrolls, Kansas City, Linen, Mahogany Plywood, Moon Window, Prints, Squares, Sumi, Technology Center, Tiles, Triangle, Triangles, Zen Garden

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