Mike Lyon

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54 x 29 inch gesture painting (self portrait)

July 3, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Another ‘gesture’ painting — this one uses the same gesture character set as my earlier (and smaller) airbrushed “Jim”, but the gestures are slightly larger (1/4 inch squares) and are painted using the Paasche Flow Pencil, so the tip touches the paper. It’s painted on Rives BFK, so the paper surface has been abraded quite […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: BFK, Character Set, Gesture, Paint, Paper Surface, Pencil, Photos, Portrait Painting, Self Portrait, Stroke

Painting with Paasche Flow Pencil

July 1, 2007 By Mike Lyon

I’m working on a short series of painted self-portraits at the moment. I’ve mounted a Paasche Flow Pencil (very much like an airbrush, only without the air — the ‘nozzle’ is conical and a needle valve seats in the nozzle in order to control the flow of paint. The Paasche is not a very high-precision […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Painting Tagged With: Air Nozzle, Air Pressure, Airbrush, Bottom Of The Bottle, Fuzz Balls, Gizmo, Ink, Ink Flow, Needle Valve, New Painting, Nozzle, Paint Pot, Paper Surface, Parallel Surfaces, Precision Device, Self Portraits, Solenoid, Vacuum Relief, Valve Seats, Viscosity, Water Bottle, Water Flow

“Arthur” 77 x 42.5 inch pen and ink drawing

November 1, 2006 By Mike Lyon

“Arthur” pen and ink drawing completed October 31 after 282 hours — almost 9 miles of ink line and 8 million lines of machine movement instruction. This one used a new (to me) pen with oil based ink and I’m not very fond of this pen at all. Drawn on Rives BFK paper, the paper […]

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Arthur, Capillary, Ink, Machine Movement, Nib, Paper Surface, Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing, Solenoid

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