Mike Lyon

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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

Figuring it Out at the Beach Musuem of Art

April 16, 2009 By Mike Lyon

Figuring it Out: Mike Lyon Drawings and Prints at the Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas opened April 14 and runs through July 19, 2009. Exhibition CATALOG PDF download also see the Beach Museum’s web site blurb from the Beach Museum of Art web site: Figuring it Out: Prints and Drawings by Mike Lyon April […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured, Video Tagged With: Abiding Passion, City Art Institute, Computer Hardware And Software, Exhibition Catalog, Japanese Aesthetics, Japanese Prints, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Kansas City Art, Kansas City Art Institute, KCAI, Length Portrait, Manhattan Kansas, Mike Lyon, Moku-Hanga, Musuem Of Art, Portrait Heads, Programmable Machine, Scale Prints, Shopbot Cnc, Software Design Company, Ukiyo E Prints, Woodblock Print, Woodcut, Woodworking Applications, Www Youtube, YouTube

Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints

September 3, 2006 By Mike Lyon

An exhibition of my recent work titled: “Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints” runs September 1, through October 21, 2006 at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore, Kansas City, Missouri. Opening: 7-9 pm First Friday, September 1, 2006, hours 11-5 Tue through Saturday, 816-221=2626. Here’s the gallery’s mailer (folds are in the mailer, […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured, Video Tagged With: Babu, Darks, Faculty Member, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kansas City Missouri, KCAI, Leedy, Mike Lyon, Moku-Hanga, Painting Instructor, Scale Drawings, Seth Mnookin, Woodblock Print, Woodblock Prints, Woodcut

“Sara” 42×77 inch woodcut from 17 blocks

August 2, 2006 By Mike Lyon

The large (42 x 77 inch) prints of “Sara” reclining on her messy bed have been successfully completed — I selected 8 for the edition plus two proofs. There is some variation among the edition, the greatest differences being in the depth of the deepest tones behind the head and in the top background — […]

Filed Under: Video, Woodblock Tagged With: Baren, D Line, Deckle, Eight Months, Far Edges, Hosho, Hosho Paper, Inch Prints, Iwano Ichibei Paper, Moku-Hanga, Notch, Pencil Line, Pencil Mark, Proofs, Razor Blade, Sara, Sweaty Work, Variation, Video Documents, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

CCP Moku Hanga Workshop March 13-17, 2006

March 23, 2006 By Mike Lyon

Dear Center for Contemporary Printmaking moku-hanga workshop participants (Janis Carter, Carol Borelli, Aeleen Frisch, Charles Hallock, Andrea Krupp, Simone Ingram, Wimberley Burton, Mary Gerster, Su-T). Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! What a great week we had, and I congratulate you all for having designed, carved, and successfully printed Japanese technique woodblock prints! WOW! YOU […]

Filed Under: Video, Workshops Tagged With: Aeleen Frisch, Borelli, Burton, CCP, Gerster, Hallock, Heather, Janis Carter, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Krupp, Master Printer, Moku-Hanga, Simone Ingram, Woodblock Print, Woodcut, Workshop, Workshop March

Aspen Grove 77×42 inch woodcut plus pigment application video

February 15, 2006 By Mike Lyon

You asked about how I mix and apply pigment… When printing very pale colors, I generally add pigment dispersion or dry pigment to rice paste or methyl cellulose, mix well, and then dab that onto the damp block and brush out. For more saturated colors, I mix a substantial amount of dry pigment into a […]

Filed Under: Video, Woodblock Tagged With: Aspen Grove, Dry Pigment, Methyl Cellulose, Moku-Hanga, Parents, Pigment Dispersion, Plywood, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

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

Gift prints for Japan visit

October 4, 2004 By Mike Lyon

Three small prints from a single block set. After printing, each was cut out and folded into a fancy tissue, then enclosed in a gift envelope.  When we visited Japan, I presented these as small gifts to everyone who was kind to us — the reactions were usually a bit hilarious — I’m not too […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Moku-Hanga, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

Lily and Sarah (spring becomes summer)

August 17, 2004 By Mike Lyon

“Lily & Sarah (Spring Becomes Summer)”, August 17, 2004, 9 x 8 inches, woodblock print from 32 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigments in rice flour paste on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 48 sheets printed — another failed attempt to realize ‘full color’ in a woodcut.

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Amp, Cherry Plywood, Dry Pigments, Iwano Ichibei Paper, Lily, Moku-Hanga, Rice Flour, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

Aspen (tiny woodcut)

December 8, 2003 By Mike Lyon

This was a ‘rush’ job for Baren Exchange #18 — someone actually had the cajones to drop out over one month AFTER the exchange deadline, and I was the next one on the waiting list. So I said, “give me a week.” and it’s been six days, so 31 of these go in the mail […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Aspen Colorado, Cherry Wood, Daniel Smith, Double Boiler, Formalin, Lineco Inc, Moku-Hanga, Prussian Blue, Rice Starch, Snow Scene, Washi, Water Pot, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

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