Mike Lyon

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Maggie 85 x 44 inches watercolor and ink (pen and ink drawing)

November 25, 2012 By Mike Lyon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN30BRx25xY The inimitable Maggie Rose Mull “Let’s Fall in Love” ukulele style As Eric Fischl spoke at the opening of America Now and Here, a young woman in the crowd stood out as though haloed in sparkler-sparks.  I asked my friend, Donald Rosenfeld, who is THAT girl? Don knew her and told me her name […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Accordion, Dardy, Eric Fischl, Friend Donald, Funny Valentine, Grinch Stole Christmas, Hot Chick, How The Grinch, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Http Www Youtube, Httpv, Inimitable, Ink Pen, Maggie, Music Video, New Friends, Pen And Ink, Ride Across America, Rosenfeld, Sparks, Train Ride, Ukulele, Visual Artist, Watercolor, Www Youtube

Paul 83 x 37 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing

August 31, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Commission for Bunni and Paul Copaken on the occasion of Paul’s 75th birthday.  This large portrait of Paul on his bicycle hangs in their Aspen, Colorado home.

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: 75th Birthday, Aspen Colorado, Bicycle, Bunni, Ink Drawing, Occasion, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Watercolor

Cambodia-1 32 x 64 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing

June 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Completed June 13, 2012 – Cambodia-1 watercolor and ink (pen and ink drawing on pigment-tinted paper)

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Cambodia, Ink Drawing, Ink Pen, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Pigment, Watercolor

“Annette” 70 x 45 inch watercolor with pen and ink drawing

January 27, 2008 By Mike Lyon

I don’t know that I so much completed this drawing today as simply called it ‘done’. Either way, I’m moving on! “Annette” is my mother-in-law and she does NOT appreciate this portrait at all — she thinks it makes her look too old and wrinkly (she’s only eighty-one years old, after all) and just hates […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Pen, Pen and Ink Drawing, Permanent Mark, Sakura Pens, Watercolor, Writing Instrument

Backsliding… “Jim” painting 80 x 44 inches (image area) — a colorful MESS

February 14, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Yesterday (February 13, 2007) I completed a first LARGE painting using an airbrush mounted on my CNC machine to paint 22,000 0.4 inch squares (200 x 110 squares) in four transparent colors on Rives BFK paper. One of 17 simple shapes designed to produce tone in even steps from lightest to darkest was painted in […]

Filed Under: Painting, Video Tagged With: Air Brush, Airbrush, CNC Machine, Gesture, Haloes, Jerry Vegder, Pigment, Thick Lines, Transparent Colors, Watercolor

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