WATERCOLOR NOTE CARDS FOR SALE!

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I was inspired to create a line of note cards to sell directly to the public after the overwhelmingly response to my "Apple Field" card design which was offered through City Harvest, Inc. this winter. With the help of City Harvest, over 12,500 prints were sold to clients including Marc Jacobs International who purchased them them to use as their company's holiday card.

While I continue to sell my original watercolors through MichaelLyonsStudio.com, I am excited to offer these archival prints at everyday prices. There are five designs for sale. The paintings were carefully selected for their broad appeal with each one being an appropriate fit for many occasions. Each boxed set of 8 cards arrives with matching envelopes via priority mail.

pink floyd chalk drawing

Roger Waters recently announced his plans to perform Pink Floyd's "The Wall" on a new worldwide tour. As its centerpiece, the tour will feature a wall being built and torn down as a means of honoring soldiers and civilians who've died in war. To help promote the tour and its message, I joined forces with GoGorilla Media to help execute Water's vision: large scale chalk drawings of an anti-war Dwight D. Eisenhower quote, written in Pink Floyd's signature font. In order to have maximum impact, I completed two 12'x15' drawings in locations with heavy foot traffic: Manhattan's Union Square and McCarren Park, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn(pictured). Here is the part of the Eisenhower quote I drew:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed."

the rest of it is: "The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from an iron cross."

wedding portraits

My friends, Angela Attento and Diego Brenes, were married this past December in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Around the time of their wedding, Angela, (a history buff) was reading about the life of John Adams when she was inspired by the traditional wedding portraits he and his wife, Abigail, posed for shortly after their nuptials. Angela commissioned me to create similar portraits of her and Diego, painted with an eye towards early American portraiture. In addition to having new art for their home, the paintings also doubled as artwork for the couple's wedding announcements.