Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

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Bed Frame and Headboard

June 15, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Deeply engraved intersecting spiral-themed double bed for my daughter Allegra’s bedroom. CNC routed 3/4 inch MDF (medium density fiberboard) frame – all parts cut from a single sheet of 3/4 inch MDF – plus a 3/8 inch plywood platform to support the memory-foam mattress.

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Allegra, CNC, Inch Plywood, Mdf Medium Density, Memory Foam Mattress, Spiral

“Linda” 77×46 inch pen and ink drawing in spiral

July 31, 2008 By Mike Lyon

Today, after 11 days non-stop drawing, I completed a large pen and ink drawing of Linda which sorta ‘marries’ my long interest in tiles and spirals with the squiggly cross-hatched drawings of recent years. I think it’s pretty successful and depicts my angelic wife (who doesn’t much mind my long hours in studio) with a […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Abstraction, Aesthetics, Engraving, Jerry Vegder, Ken Knowlton, Machine Drawings, MOMA, Pen and Ink Drawing, Pencil, Precipitate, Self Portrait, Spiral, Spirals, Sudarium, Tiles

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

Traffic (tiled relief print)

June 6, 1995 By Mike Lyon

These prints were produced using a set of identical plexi-glass cubes which I machined out of 1/2″ plexi bar stock. I routed a 1/8″ groove in one side, a 1/4″ groove in another side, and a 3/8″ groove in a third side of each long bar. Then I sliced the bars into 1/2″ long cubes using a […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Bar Stock, Glass Cubes, Grid, Groove, Plexi Glass, Portfolio, Prints, Spiral, Squares, Traffic

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