My drawing “Santa Rita” is based on a photograph that I took of an elderly woman selling flowers and plants in an outdoor market on a street in Guanajuato City,Mexico. I was visiting with friends in June of 2015. I began this drawing several months ago and finished it today, December 16, 2018.
Paul Breuer’s statement about his portraits – My time teaching in Turkey was the first time I had been exposed to a foreign culture and it’s people. The portrait studies were my effort to get to know them and connect with them as fellow human beings. It worked, I can honestly say that we share the same trials and challenges of daily life along with the joys. It opened my mind to the idea of being a citizen of the world and not of just one country. To quote Mark Twain “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
My Mixed media drawing of a Brown Pelican
My mixed media drawing of a Great Horned Owl with a full moon.
Prints of my bird paintings and prints of many of my fish, flower, and still-life food paintings, can be purchased at an art sale at Webster Groves Christian Church on December 1, from 1 – 5 pm . 20% of proceeds will go to Art 4 Epilepsy. A variety of local St.Louis artists will be participating. Carolyn Dyess will be selling her fabric pieces and wall hangings. Webster Groves Church is located at 1320 W Lockwood Ave,St.Louis MO. 63122.
My drawing of a Smallmouth Bass was rendered in black ink and colored with liquid acrylic paint on paper.
My drawing of a leaping Trout was rendered in black ink and colored with liquid acrylic paint on paper.
Prints of my fish paintings and prints of many of my bird, flower, and still-life food paintings, can be purchased at an art sale at Webster Groves Christian Church on December 1, from 1 – 5 pm . 20% of proceeds will go to Art 4 Epilepsy. A variety of local St.Louis artists will be participating. Carolyn Dyess will be selling her fabric pieces and wall hangings. Webster Groves Church is located at 1320 W Lockwood Ave,St.Louis MO. 63122.
This is my drawing of a Largemouth Bass, that is drawn with black ink on paper and colored with liquid acrylic paint
This is my drawing of a “Northern Pike”, that is drawn with black ink on paper and colored with liquid acrylic paint
Prints of my fish paintings and prints of many of my bird, flower, and still-life food paintings, can be purchased at an art sale at Webster Groves Christian Church on December 1, from 1 – 5 pm . 20% of proceeds will go to Art 4 Epilepsy. A variety of local St.Louis artists will be participating. Carolyn Dyess will be selling her fabric pieces and wall hangings. Webster Groves Church is located at 1320 W Lockwood Ave,St.Louis MO. 63122.
This is my oil on canvas painting titled “Homeward Bound”.
This is my illustration that I call “Giving Thanks”.
This is my illustration for “The Harvest Home” fictional story in the October 1996 issue of Mature Living magazine which is published by Lifeway Press. The art director was David Wilson.
My illustration “A gift for Melanie” was published in the December 2001 issue of Mature Living magazine. The art director was David Wilson
Reproductions of my mixed media painting “A turkey in the woods” can be purchased on johndyessart.com. I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving!
“Egyptian Necklace” a portrait of Carolyn -oil on canvas (2007)
” Carolyn’s World” oil on canvas (1995)
