Cody Goodin - The artistic and spiritual journey of Cody Goodin

An artist friend of mine Dawn of Oddfae has given me my first blog award.  It was that is supposed to be passed on to eight people whom you feel should.  It is called the "Proximidade". So to honor the receipt i have to put the following  on the blog. "This blog invests and believes in the Proximity - Nearness in space, time and relationships.  These blogs are exceedingly charming.  THese kind bloggers are to find and be friends.  They are not interested in prizes or self aggrandizement!  Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.  Please give more attention to these blogs!" Cynjon Noah Angela Jareck i Carla at Indian Doll Artworks Li Hertzi Susie MacMahon I am afraid five is it for me.  COngrats my friends.

I have joined a fun little challenge over on Dollstreet Dreamers.  There is a curious little doll called a Dotee .  It is a smallish doll approximately 3-6 inches in length.  It is typically rectangular or oval in shape.  The idea is to sew these by hand.  So, you draw out a simple shape cut it out and sew it together and then stuff it.  The faces are usually drawn or embroidered on.  Well, not being a conformist i decided to draw my faces with colored pencil .  How I did this was similar to how I find my apparition type faces.  I just looked at some mottled fabric and found funny little faces in it.  I pulled the face out with colored pencils.  I initially decided to do this because I was sorting my large collection of colored pencils to organize them and to see what I needed to replenish.  Anyway, these little things are the result.  Oh, and you are supposed to put a little tail or dangle thing on too as well as a loop for hanging purposes. This first on here is influenced by my...

Every once in a while I like to revisit a subject I have enjoyed in the past.  For some odd reason, I am fascinated with apparitions and ghost images.  There was a time when I saw enigmatic faces in everything around me.  Sometimes in the patterns of concrete walks.  The way paint dried on paper or even worn spots in cardboard boxes.  Some of my friends thought I was getting just a little bit loopy.  One day I started to go through my huge fabric stash I had.  It was then I started to notice a variety of faces staring back at me.  So, I began cutting these fabric swatches into the size of artist trading cards. Using just colored pencils, I began to pull out the faces so that others could see them too.  Thus began my on going series "Apparitions in Everyday Life".  Above is the latest one.  It has been sitting on my computer desk for quite a while and I thought I needed to finally commit it to the card format. You know it's funny how art for me seems to go in cycles.  I ha...