This is a digital collage painting that I created using scans of a dead rose burnt newspaper and a burnt match. John Foster Dyess
My montage portrait of Charles Dickens, using images and type to depict his stories. was created using a copy machine. Copies of my ink drawings, and type, were pasted on a board and copied on a copy machine.This copy was glued to a paper board and colored with acrylic ink. I also added black texture using a tooth brush. This image was created about 1998.
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I found a scrap of paper which is 4.5 ” wide and 2.5″ high with embossed shapes and light color on it. I took a digital photo of it and placed the photo into Photoshop and painted over the photo with Photoshop brushes. The final digital image is 21″ by 11.5″. I see a fish in this image.
John Dyess
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This is another image that I have created for my Inner Space series of digital and traditional paintings that relate to themes of space,time and inner thoughts.
“Global Warming” by John Foster Dyess
This image started as a combination of digital photographs, I took of several objects and scans of textures I created. I combined the photographs and textures in the software Photoshop. I began to see various forms in my Photoshop creation and enhanced these forms using Photoshop brushes.
After I had completed my digital image I had it printed on canvas and using oil paint I glazed over the print. I have painted shapes and forms like I would if I were viewing ,with my eyes, a landscape. The difference is that this landscape painting exists in my brain.My original title was Inner Space 7, which I changed recently to Global Warming. I think the painting was speaking to me.
This is a detail from the painting. I thought about the threat to coral reefs by,over fishing,destructive pollution,and global warming.
This part of the painting reminded me of hurricanes,and the change in recent weather patterns.
I see a distressed ocean creature in this detail.
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These are the remaining 4 illustrations John did for the book, “The Boy Whose Idea Could Feed the World”, by Doris Wild Helmering.
Book Description:
A fun, uplifting middle-grade adventure for the entire family!
Blowing off homework, being harassed by the school bully and barely surviving a biking accident, 12-year-old Alex while working on a homework assignment not only discovers the secrets of motivation, but learns that bugs are eaten in many parts of the world. A visit to a cricket farm, raising earthworms, and developing a few bug recipes of his own, leads to a science project involving his entire class. A business contract with Power Foods Exclusive finds Alex, friends and family poised to cure hunger and feed every human on this planet with a nutritionally sound, environmentally friendly food source.
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This book is available on iTunes and Amazon.
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Full color grasshopper illustration by John Dyess
This is the second of 6 illustrations created by John for the book, “The Boy Whose Idea Could Feed the World”, by Doris Wild Helmering. Illustrated by John Dyess.
A question from a recent interview with the author:
How is the style of the illustrations connected to the story?
Doris: “I’ve known John Dyess, the illustrator, for many years and have admired his work. So I was delighted when he agreed to illustrate the book. When I look at John’s work, I feel a connection: whether an illustration of a beautiful trout about to take a hook for Field & Stream or a bunch of guys playing basketball. That’s what I wanted the kids to feel when looking at the various bugs – a connection. When I first saw the illustrations for the book, I was blown-away.”
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This book is available on iTunes and Amazon.
For more information visit www.doriswildhelmering.com
Full color cricket illustration by John Dyess
This is the first of 6 illustrations created by John for the book, “The Boy Whose Idea Could Feed the World”, by Doris Wild Helmering. Illustrated by John Dyess.
A question from a recent interview with the author:
Why crickets? Has the question of food shortage interested you for a while?
Doris: “Years ago, I had read that you could eat crickets. So when I was working on the book, I started exploring what bugs people eat in other parts of the world. I got so interested that I visited a cricket farm in Florida. And what an education I got! I incorporated that experience and had Alex and his family and Mr. D visiting a cricket farm and then, of course, Alex’s entire class raising crickets as part of their class science
project.”
To purchase prints of these illustrations go to: www.johndyessart.com
This book is available on iTunes and Amazon.
For more information visit www.doriswildhelmering.com
Book cover design and concept by Carolyn Dyess, Illustration by John Dyess
This book cover was a joint project with both John and Carolyn. St. Louis author and therapist, Doris Wild Helmering, employed the couple to visually represent her creation, “The Boy Whose Idea Could Feed the World”. The E-book is now available on Amazon and iTunes. John did his iconic black graphic line work and texture to render the darkling beetle. Carolyn came up with the “world” map idea coming through the body of the beetle, and designed the bold typography that pulls the whole cover together. The variance in size, case and color, using the ever dependable Helvetica Black Condensed, with the black pseudo drop shadow, “contains” the bug from escaping off the page.
John did 6 full color illustrations of various bugs and worms used as vignette art throughout the chapter openings of the book. Those illustrations will be featured individually in upcoming blog posts.
For more information about Doris Wild Helmering visit: www.doriswildhelmering.com
