MIKE LYON: printmaker + coder + cattle hides

ARTish Plunge

Episode 16: Mike Lyon

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June 09, 2021

MIKE LYON, a Kansas City-based artist creates meticulously detailed large-scale drawings using marks made by traditional tools manipulated by non-traditional means, usually computers he has built and coded to suit his artistic vision. 

The ARTish Plunge podcast explores Mike's leadership of the family cattle hide business and subsequent return to art, ultimately becoming an innovator in wood block and post digital printmaking. With an innately curious mind, Mike also creates handcrafted guitars, ukuleles and other furniture, collects Japanese ukiyo-e prints, plays the violin in the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, and holds a 4th degree black belt in karate.

Find Mike:
Website:  mlyon.com
Instagram:   @ mikelyonstudio
Facebook:  MikeLyon.ART
Twitter:  ART_MikeLyon
Guitars: lyon.gallery

 Mentioned:

• Kansas City Shotokan Karate Club: (visit)  
• Claude Mellan, “Face of Christ on St. Veronica’s Cloth,” (1649) (see) 
• Post Digital Printmaking: : CNC, Traditional and Hybrid Techniques,  Paul Catanese and Angela Geary (read) 
• Chuck Close, artist (see) 
• Ken Knowlton, artist (see) 
• V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist (learn) 
• The Tell-Tale Brain, V. S. Ramachandran  (read) 
• “Neurology of Aesthetics,” Scientific American,V.S. Ramachandran (read) 
• Modern Printmaking: A Guide to Traditional and Digital Techniques, Sylvie Covie (read) 
• Ukiyo-e wood block prints (learn) 
• Mike’s Ukiyo-e Collection (see) 
• Shopbot CNC Tools (see) 
• Piet Mondrian, “Broadway Boogie Woogie” (see) 

Mike’s Recommendations:

• Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Mokuhanga, by April Vollmer (read)  
• Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing, by Susan Schwalb & Tom Mazzullo  (read)  

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
 Website:    https://www.kristybattani.com
Instagram:  kristybattaniart
Facebook:  kristybattaniart

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