Mike Lyon

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16 Views of Peregrine Bunny 128 inch pen and ink drawing

May 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

An unusual edition of three original pen and ink drawings plus two proofs — drawing began in late April and finished up in late May.  Can drawings be prints? These are not at all printerly, but there ARE three identical (in the sense of an edition of prints) original drawings, each one measuring 18 x […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Accordion, Anticipation, Black Ink, Blurry Images, Hot Press, Ink Drawing, Ink Pen, Mouse Button, Moving, Pen And Ink, Pen And Ink Drawings, Peregrine, Peregrine Honig, Prints, Resolution Version, Scott Goldberg, Sequined Mini Dress, Trampoline, Variations, Watercolor Paper, Web Page

Jessica Paper Doll

April 20, 2009 By Mike Lyon

Late last year, the Beach Museum of Art commissioned me to produce an edition of 30 prints in connection with the exhibition of my work there (which opened April 14, 2009). The prints were to be no larger than 10×15 inches and ‘suitable for family viewing.’ Bill North and I had some interesting discussions about […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Beach Museum, Drawing, Exhibition, Fine Art, Ink, Museum Of Art, Paper Doll, Pen and Ink Drawing, Prints, Proofs

Computer Carving Machine operational!

January 18, 2006 By Mike Lyon

The Large Press installation is almost done now! This week I’m cutting the final parts — the vacuum plenum for the press itself… This is a somewhat complicated task it turns out, but I believe I’ve got it figured out. I’ve successfully moved my ShopBot CNC machine from the 3rd to the 1st floor… After […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Woodblock Tagged With: CNC Machine, Computer Carving Machine, Digital Video Camera, Greens, Pinks, Plenum, Plywood Sheets, Prints, Quarter Inch Plywood, Router, Spiral, Vacuum

McNeese National Works On Paper Exhibition

October 15, 2005 By Mike Lyon

The McNeese National Works On Paper exhibition of 40 prints was selected by juror Annette DiMeo Carlozzi from over 800 entries. My 30 x 21 inch woodblock print “Anthony” received the “Bank One Purchase Award” of $1,200, entered the permanent collection of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and was reproduced on the cover […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Woodblock Tagged With: Bank One, Blanton Museum Of Art, Contemporary Art, Curator, Exhibition Catalog, Juror, Lake Charles Louisiana, Mcneese State University, Museum Of Art, Prints, Texas At Austin, University Of Texas, University Of Texas At Austin

Anthony

April 29, 2004 By Mike Lyon

This is the image which should have been printed from these blocks But it turned out that my radical method of dividing the color areas in those blocks was too difficult to control during printing and the result was singularly unappealing to me. So I recarved 15 large blocks as if they were reductions, and […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Bank One, Exhibition Catalog, Juror, Lake Charles Louisiana, Mcneese State University, Prints, Woodblock Print

Blue Shoes

August 17, 2002 By Mike Lyon

My primary model for seven years, Sarah, with her daughter, Lily in her blue jelly flip-flops. Oban Moku-hanga three color (Prussian Blue, Quinacidrone Magenta, Sumi) reduction on three blocks in 19 block states. One basswood block and two shina plywood blocks. On Baren Mall Yamaguchi Hosho paper (very nice!). Fifty sheets printed in all. Twenty-three […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Basswood, Blue Shoes, Grays, Hosho, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Lily, Moku-Hanga, Pieces Of Wood, Pink, Pinks, Plywood, Printing Techniques, Prints, Prussian Blue, Shades Of Blue, Wood Grain, Woodblock Print, Woodcut, Yamaguchi

Music

May 15, 2002 By Mike Lyon

This is an example of the prints I produced for Baren Forum’s 13th Exchange, “Music”. The prints are chuban, paper about 10 1/2 inches high. The print shown is a reduction print, printed by hand using Traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques and materials (except, of course for the reduction part). Traditionally, each of the fifteen […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Blue Pigment, Brushes, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Moku-Hanga, Printing Techniques, Prints, Prussian Blue, Red Rag, Risk, Several Times, Stack, Suicide, Water Brush, Water Container, Woodblock Print, Woodcut, Workspace

Triangle tiled scroll woodcuts

September 6, 1999 By Mike Lyon

I made three large woodcut ‘scrolls’ in September of 1999. Two of them were installed in the Zen Garden Room I designed and built for the UMB Technology Center in Kansas city. Two of the prints were similar (I kept one for myself), and the third was twice as wide. I had already cut a bunch […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Block Printing, Brads, Japanese Paper, Japanese Scrolls, Kansas City, Linen, Mahogany Plywood, Moon Window, Prints, Squares, Sumi, Technology Center, Tiles, Triangle, Triangles, Zen Garden

In and Out

September 15, 1998 By Mike Lyon

One of the prints I made during a three week workshop at Anderson Ranch.

Filed Under: Silkscreen Tagged With: Anderson Ranch, Prints

hand stamped tiled woodcuts

November 24, 1997 By Mike Lyon

Over Thanksgiving we flew to Port Townsend, WA for a family get-together with my sister-in-law, Barbara Stanny.  I took along a tiny watercolor set and a couple of stamps I’d carved — a quarter circle and a half-circle.  I entertained myself on the plane ride by printing some tilings (one sqare at at time) on […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Moku-Hanga, Newsprint, Port Townsend Wa, Prints, Quarter Circle, Sister In Law, Stamps, Thanksgiving, Watercolor Set, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

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