Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

Maggie 85 x 44 inches watercolor and ink (pen and ink drawing)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN30BRx25xY The inimitable Maggie Rose Mull “Let’s Fall in Love” ukulele style As Eric Fischl spoke at the opening of America Now and Here, a young woman in the crowd stood out as though haloed in sparkler-sparks.  I asked my friend, Donald Rosenfeld, who is THAT girl? Don knew her and told me her name […]

Cambodia 2 pen and ink drawing – 45 x 85 inches

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I’ll try to explain this series of drawings from S-21 prison in Phnom-Penh and the killing field not far away pretty soon, I suppose. The young men and women whose remains are the subject of my recent drawing were imprisoned by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia during the late 1970’s. Confined in S-21 […]

“Misty” pen and ink drawing 82 x 45 inches

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My friend, accomplished figurative ceramist Misty Gamble, teaches Foundations at the Kansas City Art Institute agreed to model for me wearing her powder-blue faux fur jacket.  She was super-animated and great to work with and for.  I don’t really know ‘why’, but it seemed to me that a deep green paper color would suit this […]

Carlos Pen and Ink Drawing 75 x 45 inches

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My friend, Kim Weinberger told me that her friend, Carlos Hernandez, had admired my work at the America Now and Here show and wanted to model for me – she introduced us over drinks and…  Well Carlos is a great looking guy and the following weekend he came to my studio to model for me. […]

pen and ink drawing of Miguel Rivera

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Miguel Rivera is chair of printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute.  He is a wonderful teacher – gentle and thoughtful.  He has a great face and as soon as we met I asked if he’d model for a portrait.  You can learn all about Miguel and see some of his work on his web […]

“Joel” Large Scale Pen and Ink Drawing in White and Black Ink on Tinted Paper

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REALLY love this one! I was tempted to title it “this is not Joe’s face” after Magritte’s famous not-a-pipe. In 1991 I was in Japan with a group of US, Canadian, and European karate guys led by Tsutomu Ohshima.  Ohshima Sensei organized a fabulous and exhausting tour which included visits to Hiroshima, Miyajima, Kyoto — […]