wood shutters on a stone home in Guanajuato, Mexico

My photograph of wood shutters on a historical stone building seen while walking in Guanajuato, Mexico

Poster wall ,Guanajuato,Mexico

While walking the streets of Guanajuato, Mexico several years ago ,I noticed this torn poster “El Curso Britannico” , and took this photograph. This is one of a series of photographs of textures found on buildings and streets in this city. Additional images of my paintings ,drawings and photographs can be found on my website http://studiodyess.com/ and fine art prints can be purchased at johndyessart.com

graffiti 1,Guanajuato,Mexico

While walking the streets of Guanajuato, Mexico several years ago ,I noticed this graffiti on the exterior wall of a building, and took this photograph. This is one of a series of photographs of textures found on buildings and streets in this city. Additional images of my paintings ,drawings and photographs can be found on my website http://studiodyess.com/ and fine art prints can be purchased at johndyessart.com

Old stone wall in Guanajuato, Mexico

 

This is another photograph that I took while walking in the streets of Guanajuato, Mexico several years ago. I like the colors and shapes of the stones in this old building exterior wall. This is, for me, found abstract art.

 

Green plant and Purple wall in Guanajuato, Mexico

 While walking the streets with friends in Guanajuato, Mexico I photographed this scene of a green weed growing next to a distressed purple wall. I like the idea of an old broken wall next to a new growing plant.

Face on a exterior wall in Guanajuato ,Mexico

While walking the streets of Guanajuato, Mexico several years ago ,I noticed this graffiti stencil of a woman on the exterior wall of a building, and took this photograph. This is one of a series of photographs of textures found on buildings and streets in this city. Additional images of my paintings ,drawings and photographs can be found on my website   http://johndyessart.com/ and fine art prints can be purchased at johndyessart.com

 

 

Guanajuato images

Statue on exterior of a church in Guanajuato, Mexico

Black ink , colored ink and digital coloring drawing, based on a photo I took while visiting the city of  Guanajuato, Mexico in 2015.

Guanajuato Market Oil painting by John Dyess

Guanajuato market oil painting by John Foster Dyess

I took many photos while visiting Guanajuato, Mexico in June of 2015,some of which I have posted on this blog. This oil painting was based on a photo I took from the second level of a Market in Guanajuato.  It is oil on canvas which is
24″ by 32″.

detail of oil painting

detail of market oil painting 2

Guanajuato,Mexico and Don Quixote

Don Quixote statue in Guanajuato,Mexico

During our visit to Guanajuato, in June, my wife and four friends visited the Don Quixote Iconographic Museum and viewed many of the 850 pieces of visual art. In a catalog of the art in the museum,I purchased, was this statement “The main objective of the Don Quixote Iconographic Museum is to genuinely familiarize people with The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha through art. Equally important,we strive to preserve the momentous legacy of this defender of human values.” Also stated in the catalog was “Therefore,The natural goal of the museum is to publicly exhibit the Visual arts
dimension of the universality of Don Quixote’s message and thus enrich and prolong Cervantes’ legacy.”After seeing the art in this museum I decided to offer an assignment, to my Illustration1and 2 students at Meramec Community College,the opportunity to illustrate scenes from Don Quixote.

Quixote statue 1 in Guanajuato

Quixote statue 2 in Guanajuato

Quixote statue 3

Guanajuato,Mexico – Sketches by Carolyn Dyess

sketch from the roof of our rental home by Carolyn Dixon Dyess

My wife carolyn also brought a sketchbook to Guanajuato,and drew buildings and food.

another building sketch by Carolyn Dixon Dyess

Food sketch by Carolyn Dixon Dyess

Our group of 9 people ate at an Italian restaurant, which was located near Guanajuato.Every  Monday there was reduced price on the menu. Carolyn sketched some of the food that we were served. We all shared each order of food.

restaurant food sketch by Carolyn

food sketch by Carolyn

The food was excellent !