Photograph of objects found in my home.

This is a my photograph of tin snips and a cut up can of ginger ale soda.

 

Advertisements

Heart 1

Heart 1

My painting Heart 1 is in the art collection of  Tim and Kathy Carson. It is enamel paint on paper board  using  a screwdriver to apply the paint.
This painting is reproduced on mugs, apparel, and many other products, and can be purchased on johndyessart.com

Cosmic Love

Cosmic Love painting by John Dyess

Reproductions of my painting “Cosmic Love” on tee shirts, framed prints, wall art, pillows ,greeting cards, phone cases, apparel and coffee mugs can be purchased on johndyessart.com

http://johndyessart.com/index.html?tab=images

 

television screen photography

Several years ago I was watching a U 2 concert on television and took photos of the screen.Here a a few of these photos. I find the blurred images very interesting. I painted some areas using a Photoshop brush.

 

STL 4 HOU 1

This image is a digital photograph of my television screen of a televised Stl. Baseball game. I enhanced the photo in Photoshop.

Hidden Woman

Photograph by John Foster Dyess

Jazz Trumpet

This image is based on a photograph that I took of a musician playing a trumpet. 

Tortoise drawing

My mixed media drawing of a Tortoise is based on a photograph that I took at the St.Louis Zoo. I used a Rapidograph pen and acrylic ink on bond paper.

It was sold at an exhibit at the OA Gallery in Kirkwood Missouri.

Portraits of inductees to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame by John Dyess

I will be exhibiting framed prints of 19 of 51 portraits, that I created in for a traveling exhibit,  sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, of inductees into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the John William “Blind” Boone & Eugenia Lange Boone Home, at 10 North 4th Street in Columbia Missouri.
I created these portraits in 2007,  for a traveling exhibit,  sponsored by Anheuser-Busch. Reproductions of the portraits were placed on informational pedestals. On top of the pedestals were placed shoes worn by the inductees. I don’t think the exhibit ever traveled once AB was purchased by In-Bev.
I have since shown these portraits in other galleries.
The show will open on Friday February 1 from 5:30 -7:00.
Below are several portraits that will be in the show.
blindboonehome.com

Ralph David Abernathy Sr. (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was an American civil rights activist and Christian minister. As a leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King. He collaborated with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He also co-founded and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968, where he led the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C. among other marches and demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans. He also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).

Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state’s field secretary of the NAACP, and World War II veteran, having served in the United States Army. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, to end segregation of public facilities, and to expand opportunities for African Americans, including enforcement of voting rights. He was assassinated by a white supremacist and Klansman.

broken

broken – having been fractured or damaged and no longer in one piece or in working order: a broken arm. • (of a relationship) ended, such as through infidelity: a broken marriage. • denoting a family in which the parents are divorced or separated: he grew up poor in a broken family | unable to survive in this broken household. • (of an agreement or promise) not observed by one of the parties involved. 2 (of a person) having given up all hope; despairing: he went to his grave a broken man.