Mike Lyon

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“Jim” acrylic gesture grid painting on Rives BFK 42 x 24 inches

March 3, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed a second painting of “Jim” using the 16-value geometric gestures from the previous attempt, but scaled down so that each is 0.2 inches square, producing an image about 40 inches high by 22 inches wide. The 200 x 120 gesture grid (24,000 squares) was painted more than six times using four colors […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Acrylic Painting, Airbrush, Gesture, Squares, Transparent Colors

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

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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