Mike Lyon

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“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

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

Burning Leaf Smell woodcut

December 1, 1997 By Mike Lyon

Printed in December, 1997, this small edition of tiled woodcuts was produced for Christmas gifts that year.  The muddy colors and swirly patterns remind me of the smell of leaves burning in our gutter each fall, a practice now long abandoned (and illegal).  These were printed from a set of one-inch birch plywood tiles with […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Baren, Birch Plywood, Christmas, Circles, Drill Press, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Jig, Leaves, Moku-Hanga, Swirly Patterns, Symmetrical Pattern, Symmetrical Patterns, Tiles, Water Colors, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

Floral woodcut from tiles

June 5, 1997 By Mike Lyon

“Floral Pattern”, 1997, 24.5 x 16.25 inches, tiled woodcut with sumi ink on handmade Gampi paper

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Floral Pattern, Moku-Hanga, Tiles, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

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