Mike Lyon

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Painting with Paasche Flow Pencil

July 1, 2007 By Mike Lyon

I’m working on a short series of painted self-portraits at the moment. I’ve mounted a Paasche Flow Pencil (very much like an airbrush, only without the air — the ‘nozzle’ is conical and a needle valve seats in the nozzle in order to control the flow of paint. The Paasche is not a very high-precision […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Painting Tagged With: Air Nozzle, Air Pressure, Airbrush, Bottom Of The Bottle, Fuzz Balls, Gizmo, Ink, Ink Flow, Needle Valve, New Painting, Nozzle, Paint Pot, Paper Surface, Parallel Surfaces, Precision Device, Self Portraits, Solenoid, Vacuum Relief, Valve Seats, Viscosity, Water Bottle, Water Flow

64 embedded self-portraits

May 28, 1996 By Mike Lyon

Here was an experiment to see if I could juggle the big image made of smaller images made of smaller images. The small self-portraits are made of 25 pieces, each of which can carry any of 5 values of lightness or darkness. This was the practice piece for the big self portrait you’re about to see…

Filed Under: Lithography Tagged With: Embedded, Self Portrait, Self Portraits

6,401 self portraits

May 28, 1995 By Mike Lyon

The image was lifted from a 1988 photo-ID. The title is derived from the number of self-portrait images used to make the image of me, plus 1 for the complete image itself. Since the image lives in a space 40 cells high by 40 cells wide, it’s 40 x 40 = 1600 cells in the image. Each of […]

Filed Under: Lithography Tagged With: Black And White, Ink, Portrait Images, Rectangle, Self Portrait, Self Portraits

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