Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

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Checker Stools

May 25, 1999 By Mike Lyon

I spent three weeks in the fall of 1998 at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado adding to my traditional moku-hanga and other water based print making skills with Hiroki Morinoue and Allen Smith. An artist in residence there, Ulrika Scriba from Gengenbach, Germany, was especially interested in the several booklets I had authored […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Allen Smith, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist In Residence, Booklets, Clever Methods, Different Colors, Fluidity, Gengenbach, Glues, Hanga, Hiroki, Intarsia, Platters, Scriba, Snowmass Colorado, Spent Three, Tile Patterns, Ulrika Scriba, Wavy Lines, Woodcut, Woodwork

The Fisherman and his Wife

July 4, 1996 By Mike Lyon

This was  my first ‘traditional’ multi-block Japanese woodblock print.  It was made during a two week workshop taught by Hiroki Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado.  That was a life-changing experience — VERY stimulating — and launched me into a whole new world of moku-hanga (traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking)!  WOW!  Total immersion […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Blue Pigment, Cadmium, Carbon Black, Color Scheme, Dry Pigment, Fairy Tale, Fisherman And His Wife, Hiroshige, Hosho, Iwano Ichibei Paper, Japanese woodblock print, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Key Block, Living National Treasure, Moku-Hanga, National Treasure, Prussian Blue, Snowmass Colorado, Total Immersion, Vertical Grain, Woodblock Print, Woodblock Printmaking, Woodcut, Yellow Pigment

1996 woodcuts

April 29, 1996 By Mike Lyon

Early in 1996, for reasons I still don’t understand, really, I became fascinated by Japanese woodblock printmaking technique.  In January, I registered for a two week long workshop to be taught by Hiroki Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado — but I was wait-listed and didn’t know until shortly before the workshop […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Moku-Hanga, Pigments, Pin Registration, Printmaking Technique, Registration System, Snowmass Colorado, Watercolor Brushes, Wood Blocks, Woodblock Print, Woodblock Printmaking, Woodcut

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