Mike Lyon

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Peregrine 90 x 38.5 inch painting in acrylic and sumi on gilded paper

April 20, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Today I completed a LOOOOONG project — the painting of fellow artist Peregrine Honig in black and white acrylics over sumi-painted and gilded paper.  It’s somewhat larger than life. I first painted the paper black with sumi ink.  Then I gilded the clothing area in silver leaf.  My plan was to paint black on the […]

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‘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 […]

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‘Lee’ painting 35 x 21 inches

May 21, 2009 By Mike Lyon

‘LEE’ 2009, 35×21 inches, acrylic painting on tinted paper

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Painting, Video Tagged With: Black Paint, Blue Pigment, Painting, Pencil, Sponge, Sumi, White Paint

“Jim” Collaboration with Lawrence Lithography Workshop

October 15, 2007 By Mike Lyon

“Jim“, 2008, 43.25 x 30 inches, lithograph from seven plates on BFK Tan paper is available for $1,800 from Lawrence Lithography Workshop edition of 26. Collections: Springfield Museum of Art, Beach Museum of Art, The Collectors Fund, Consumer Growth Partners At the opening of the Kemper Museum “Backstage Pass” show last month, master printer Mike […]

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Jessica Reclining (front)

February 3, 2004 By Mike Lyon

“Jessica Reclining”, February 3, 2004, woodblock print – 17 state reduction, sumi on Iwano Ichibei hosho, Edition of 20  (24 sheets printed). Pigment is sumi — Baren Mall Neri-zumi dense, flat, very concentrated — mixed into rice starch paste. Partially printed with the wonderful new Korokoro Baren also from Baren Mall, and partially with my […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Iwano Ichibei Paper, Pigment, Rice Starch, Starch Paste, 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

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

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

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