Everyday common things seen in my home

green drink glass and dish soap bottle

My recent photographs that  I have taken are of every day common things ,found in my home . Most of these photos were taken sitting on our kitchen counter top in sunlight  that comes through a window. My  focus is on shapes and colors within the objects and not what these objects are.
This post reminds me of words said by Emily in the cemetery after she has died, in the play “Our Town”, about the importance and beauty found in the common everyday things experienced in our lives.
“Good- bye,Good-by, world. Good-by Grover’s Corners. Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks
ticking, and Mama’s sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
This is a link to Act 3 of “Our Town” Lincoln Center production

John Foster Dyess

Check out these websites to see more of my illustrations and photographs and the designs of my wife Carolyn and to purchase prints and other items:
http://www.johndyessart.com
http://www.studiodyess.etsy.com
http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/studiodyess
http://www.fabri-cations.net

Observed and recorded around my house

A trip to another planet  by John Foster Dyess

This image began as a photograph of my basement floor, and was enhanced in Photoshop. The textures in this photograph reminded me of photographs taken of the surface of planets or moons around planets. As I get older I like to record things that may  seem mundane or overlooked by others. I think there is visual interest in common things and I like to record what I see in these common every day objects.Thanks for looking at images on my blog.
John Foster Dyess

Other images I have created by drawing, painting or recorded by me with a camera, can be viewed at  studiodyess.com

April 26,2020 “There is always time – for love”

hope your day is filled with lots of love

My wife Carolyn was recently teaching our  grandson Dominic  how to tell time  on a non digital clock and  as part of this project Dominic made  a clock out of a paper plate with cut black paper for hands . Our granddaughter Claire made the sign about about love.
I’m thankful that for now I’m healthy and my children and grandchildren are healthy. I hope everyone who sees this post is also healthy and filled with love.
John Foster Dyess  April 26, 2020

New Normal – virtual reality

photo of TV screen 4 13 20

I took this digital photograph of my television screen this morning that told how many cases and deaths from the Coronavirus in the United States. This is the virtual reality of my life at home . Below are photographs of my real life.

Raylan our cat 4 13 2020

Raylan has no concerns about the world outside of our house. He lives inside of our house and never goes outside. He eats and sleeps and lays on our laps, which is the way it should be for cats.

My granddaughter’s drawing of a cat that is taped to our studio wall.

So far myself and family members are well. I’m am sorry for all the suffering and loss for some many families in the world.
Staying at home.
John Dyess

WTMV radio station history

Zeake Dyess Radio engineer at a St.Louis radio station.

This photo of my father  was taken at  radio station WTMV .
“In those days there were engineers who did all the technical work  in radio, and announcers and talent worked in a separate room. Engineers were also needed every time the station did a remote broadcast” STLRadio.com and STL Radio Hall of Fame copyright 1999-2007

My father  moved to St. Louis from Covington, Louisiana in 1932, and married my mother Adele Kestler  on August 12,1933 . He worked in a filling station and as a night watchman at a radio station. He didn’t have a high school education. His brother-in-law S.M. Foster worked as a radio engineer at KMOX. My father studied at night to pass the test to become a licensed radio engineer.

He worked as radio engineer at WTMV during the 1940,s 1950,s and 1960,s. He was a member of Local Union # 4  I.B.E.W.
John Dyess

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

“Shared Space”

“Walking in New York City” by John Dyess 30″x 30″oil on canvas print

My wife Carolyn and I are having a joint show on Thursday March 31 at “The Gallery of Contemporary Art at St.Louis Community College -Wildwood. Below is the statement about our show.

Husband and wife artists, John and Carolyn Dyess share their home studio but do a variety of types of work and creative projects.
John is a traditional illustrator by career but does personal work in painting, photography, collage and digital media.
This show features his photography taken in New York City, digitally manipulated and abstracted, printed on large stretched canvas and then painted.

Carolyn is graphic designer, with a background in print design, but has been working in fiber and fabric over the last few years. Creating what she calls, “fabric arrangements or ‘fabrications’ ”. Some pieces are along the lines of small art quilts, some have dimensional, stuffed, trapunto- like areas, and some are stuffed and wired shapes arranged in a container or wall sconce.

“Facade” by Carolyn Dixon Dyess

 

Many Horses

Delanie a horse lover

This is my granddaughter Delanie posing in front of some of  her “Breyer” horses. My wife and I visited Delanie, my daughter Christy,my granddaughter Claire and son in law Mike this weekend. We enjoyed watching Claire swim  in a meet and watching Delanie acting in a production of 101 Dalmatians. She played Anita. I also enjoyed viewing some short movies Delanie created, using stop motion animation, called  Breyer Horse Stable and Bareback Jumping . Hope you enjoy these as much as my wife Carolyn and I enjoyed watching them. Delanie loves riding her horse Summer Moon.

Remembering my mother Adele Kestler Dyess

Adele M. Dyess January 17,1916 to June 22,1991

Happy birthday mom. She would have been 96 yesterday.

Experimental art – scenes from a movie 1

scene from a movie

I had a medical procedure called Catheter Ablation Monday and decided while I’m recuperating I would play at the computer and create some new digital art. I started by recording a movie  yesterday than I took TV screen photos with my digital camera of scenes that interested me visually. I up-loaded a few of my photos from the movie and painted over the photos in photoshop. I don’t know if doing this is covered under the Fair Use Doctrine so I will not name the movie. Anyway I’m having fun with this technigue.