Mike Lyon

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Peregrine 90 x 38.5 inch painting in acrylic and sumi on gilded paper

April 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed a LOOOOONG project — the painting of fellow artist Peregrine Honig in black and white acrylics over sumi-painted and gilded paper.  It’s somewhat larger than life. I first painted the paper black with sumi ink.  Then I gilded the clothing area in silver leaf.  My plan was to paint black on the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Painting Tagged With: Accordion, Acrylics, Black And White, Black White, Bunny Dress, Fellow Artist, gild, gilding, Honig, Larger Than Life, Painting Acrylic, Pen And Ink, Pen And Ink Drawings, Peregrine Honig, Peregrine Project, Silver Leaf, Sumi

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

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