Mike Lyon

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Madeline and Kit, 13 x 5.7 inches, woodblock print from 17 blocks

October 18, 2012 By Mike Lyon

My intern this year, Madeline Cass (who is responsible for scanning and data entry of my collection of Japanese prints – see woodblockprints.org), and her roommate, Kit Landwehr, modeled for me June 8.  Years ago I’d really loved printing the stripes of a seersucker robe and Kit’s striped dress was a natural for another attempt […]

Filed Under: Featured, Video, Woodblock Tagged With: Birch Plywood, Cass, Cnc Router, Co Author, Data Entry, Graphite, Japanese Printmaking Technique, Japanese Prints, Japanese Technique, Little Jewels, Madeline, Meditative Activity, moku, Notches, Pigment, Precise Registration, Relief Prints, Seersucker, Small Minority, Soft Gray, Steering Committee, Striped Dress, Tiny Details

Post-Digital Printmaking

July 14, 2012 By Mike Lyon

An accomplished artist and engineer, Lyon’s facility for investigating creative outcomes for new technologies pervades his endeavors. During his studies in the 1970s, exposure to computer-generated images such as Studies in Perception No. 1 by Leon Harmon and Ken Knowlton, as well as the processes used in the artwork of Chuck Close, had a great influence and still resonate with him today.

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Press Tagged With: Art Expertise, Black Belt, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Computer Generated Images, Creative Practice, Creative Production, Digital Printmaking, Dojo, Factory Automation, Hanga, Hybrid Techniques, Japanese Culture, Japanese Woodblock Printing, Japanese Zen, Ken Knowlton, Mechanical Systems, Mike Lyon, moku, Moku-Hanga, Paintings And Drawings, Shin Hanga, Shotokan Karate, Visual Aesthetics, Zen Philosophy

Large format Woodblock Printing Press

October 31, 2005 By Mike Lyon

This is a progress report (with many photos) showing a long-term project underway — my design and manufacture of a large (about 5×10 foot) woodblock printing press for shin moku-hanga (new Japanese woodblock prints). Late in 2004, I decided to produce large woodblock prints — larger than I was able working alone and using a […]

Filed Under: Equipment Tagged With: Baren, Deflection, Footprint, Hanga, Insurmountable Problem, Intaglio Presses, Japanese Prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Medium Scale, moku, Moku-Hanga, Plenum, Possibilty, Printing Press, Progress Report, Reluctance, Rollers, Space Considerations, Surprise, Thin Plates, Vacuum, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

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