Mike Lyon

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Print Quarterly Review December 2009

February 10, 2010 By Mike Lyon

For various reasons, very modest exhibition catalogues are sometimes worth noting in Print Quarterly. This is the case with Figuring it Out: Prints and Drawings by Mike Lyon (Manhattan, KS, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2009, 8 pp., 10 col. ills., free), which includes an essay by Bill North. For this photorealist printmaker has made use of his knowledge of computerized technology to create a series of digitally based colour woodcuts.

Filed Under: Press Tagged With: Beach Museum, CNC, Computer Hardware And Software, Contemporary Printmaking, Exhibition Catalogues, Japanese Aesthetics, Japanese Methods, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas State University, London Journal, Manhattan Ks, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Mike Lyon, museum, Norwalk Connecticut, Prussian Blue, Shopbot, Shopbot Cnc, Ukiyo E Prints, Woodworking Applications

‘Joanne’ painting 35×21 inches on tinted paper

May 23, 2009 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed this (little bit scary) portrait of my Mom (Joanne) painting in white and black Golden Liquid Acrylics over paper tinted blue-gray using dilute sumi and prussian blue applied to the paper by wiping with a sponge. This and the previous painting of ‘Lee’ completed a few days ago are experiments in the […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Painting, Video Tagged With: Amazon, Bumpy Surface, Chicago Art Institute, Exhibition, Fabulous Catalog, Few Days, Goldman, Gradations, Httpv, Impasto, Italian Drawings, Joanne, Liquid Acrylics, Lithograph, Little Bit, Paint, Previous Painting, Prussian Blue, Sponge, Sumi

Fixing Hair

January 5, 2004 By Mike Lyon

“Fixing Hair”, January 5, 2004, 21.75 x 7.35 inches, woodblock print – 23 state reduction, Prussian Blue and Sumi on Iwano Ichibei hosho, Edition of 20 (28 sheets printed).

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Iwano Ichibei Paper, Prussian Blue, Sumi

Shunga (spring picture)

December 16, 2003 By Mike Lyon

Pigment is Prussian Blue pigment suspension and sumi, both from Daniel Smith* mixed into a little home-brewed rice paste I cooked up from Lineco, Inc Neutral pH Pure Rice Starch (McClain’s now has some nice Japanese rice starch, too). I jury rigged a primitive sort of double boiler from my hot water pot heating some […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Blue Pigment, Daniel Smith, Double Boiler, Formalin, Lineco Inc, Prussian Blue, Rice Starch, Water Pot

Aspen (tiny woodcut)

December 8, 2003 By Mike Lyon

This was a ‘rush’ job for Baren Exchange #18 — someone actually had the cajones to drop out over one month AFTER the exchange deadline, and I was the next one on the waiting list. So I said, “give me a week.” and it’s been six days, so 31 of these go in the mail […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Aspen Colorado, Cherry Wood, Daniel Smith, Double Boiler, Formalin, Lineco Inc, Moku-Hanga, Prussian Blue, Rice Starch, Snow Scene, Washi, Water Pot, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

Dana seated

July 14, 2003 By Mike Lyon

oban reduction print from single basswood block with Prussian blue and neri-zumi (black)

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Dana, Neri-Zumi, Prussian Blue

Sarah – shin-hanga bijin mitate

April 5, 2003 By Mike Lyon

“Sarah”, 2003, 15.25 x 5.124 inches, Chu-tanzaku Bijin Mitate, Moku-Hanga, color woodcut This is a four basswood block reduction in Winsor & Newton Transparent Yellow, Alizarine Crimson, Prussian Blue, & Sumi with 28 color layers with a dark mica ground. 56 sheets printed in all in three variations. This one has a dark baren-suhi ground […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Applying Makeup, Ball Bearing, Baren, Basswood, Bijin, Color Woodcut, Goyo, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Moku-Hanga, Natori, Prussian Blue, Rei, Shin Hanga, Shinsui, Watanabe, Winsor, Woodblock Print, Woodblock Prints, Woodcut

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

Heaven’s Gate

May 20, 2001 By Mike Lyon

“Endangered Species” print exchange for Baren Forum Traditional hanga technique. I carved eight blocks, four from shina plywood, and four from birch plywood. I used three Windsor/Newton watercolors, transparent yellow, quinacidrone magenta, prussian blue, plus prepared sumi and printed VERY dry on VERY lightweight kitakata paper. I wasn’t up to carving the tiny little words, […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Birch Plywood, Cartouche, Endangered Species, Hale Bopp Comet, Marshall Applewhite, Prussian Blue, Sumi, Watercolors, Winsor Newton

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