Mike Lyon

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‘Lee’ painting 35 x 21 inches

May 21, 2009 By Mike Lyon

‘LEE’ 2009, 35×21 inches, acrylic painting on tinted paper

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Painting, Video Tagged With: Black Paint, Blue Pigment, Painting, Pencil, Sponge, Sumi, White Paint

“Linda” 77×46 inch pen and ink drawing in spiral

July 31, 2008 By Mike Lyon

Today, after 11 days non-stop drawing, I completed a large pen and ink drawing of Linda which sorta ‘marries’ my long interest in tiles and spirals with the squiggly cross-hatched drawings of recent years. I think it’s pretty successful and depicts my angelic wife (who doesn’t much mind my long hours in studio) with a […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Abstraction, Aesthetics, Engraving, Jerry Vegder, Ken Knowlton, Machine Drawings, MOMA, Pen and Ink Drawing, Pencil, Precipitate, Self Portrait, Spiral, Spirals, Sudarium, Tiles

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

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