Mike Lyon

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Madeline and Kit, 13 x 5.7 inches, woodblock print from 17 blocks

October 18, 2012 By Mike Lyon

My intern this year, Madeline Cass (who is responsible for scanning and data entry of my collection of Japanese prints – see woodblockprints.org), and her roommate, Kit Landwehr, modeled for me June 8.  Years ago I’d really loved printing the stripes of a seersucker robe and Kit’s striped dress was a natural for another attempt […]

Filed Under: Featured, Video, Woodblock Tagged With: Birch Plywood, Cass, Cnc Router, Co Author, Data Entry, Graphite, Japanese Printmaking Technique, Japanese Prints, Japanese Technique, Little Jewels, Madeline, Meditative Activity, moku, Notches, Pigment, Precise Registration, Relief Prints, Seersucker, Small Minority, Soft Gray, Steering Committee, Striped Dress, Tiny Details

Cambodia-1 32 x 64 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing

June 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Completed June 13, 2012 – Cambodia-1 watercolor and ink (pen and ink drawing on pigment-tinted paper)

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Cambodia, Ink Drawing, Ink Pen, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Pigment, Watercolor

Backsliding… “Jim” painting 80 x 44 inches (image area) — a colorful MESS

February 14, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Yesterday (February 13, 2007) I completed a first LARGE painting using an airbrush mounted on my CNC machine to paint 22,000 0.4 inch squares (200 x 110 squares) in four transparent colors on Rives BFK paper. One of 17 simple shapes designed to produce tone in even steps from lightest to darkest was painted in […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Air Brush, Airbrush, CNC Machine, Gesture, Haloes, Jerry Vegder, Pigment, Thick Lines, Transparent Colors, Watercolor

Jessica Reclining (front)

February 3, 2004 By Mike Lyon

“Jessica Reclining”, February 3, 2004, woodblock print – 17 state reduction, sumi on Iwano Ichibei hosho, Edition of 20  (24 sheets printed). Pigment is sumi — Baren Mall Neri-zumi dense, flat, very concentrated — mixed into rice starch paste. Partially printed with the wonderful new Korokoro Baren also from Baren Mall, and partially with my […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Iwano Ichibei Paper, Pigment, Rice Starch, Starch Paste, Sumi

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