Cody Goodin - The artistic and spiritual journey of Cody Goodin

First let me apologize for such a poor photo.  It is slightly out of focus.  Not too bad, but I am doing this quickly before it gets too dark.  I just finished Oak Man and had to share the outcome.  A bit late but, that seems the way life is of late.  Anyway, here he is and you can get am idea of how it looks.  I will be taking better pictures of him later in the month when I can get to the studio. I used some of the same techniques that were used in the tree spirit piece in the last post.  Many layers of paint and glaze.  I love this process and will probably keep exploring this technique a bit further now that I have several under my belt so to speak.  Truthfully this is the one thing that has sustained me the last few weeks.  I go to such a happy place when I am working on my art.  There are so many ideas I can't seem to get them all going.  Thank goodness for sketch books and journals. Oh, I am thinking of ...

The Plaza Artists Materials Cincinnati Clifton branch is the host of our employee mediums challenge.  It is the art retail supply store where I work.  We employees have taken it upon ourselves to work with a variety of mediums each month.  The medium is chosen for each month and this latest installment is all about acrylic paint mediums.  In my last post I showed you some in progress pictures of the pieces I was working.  Well I finished the wood nymph and she is now residing at the store for a month before she travels to the Essex Studios for Decembers art walk.  Unless of course a customer at work falls in love with her and wants to buy her.  Her companion Oak Man is not finished but, I will be working on him this weekend.  So without further ado here is Wood Nymph an experiment in acrylic mediums and mixed media. Wood Nymph is 12x16 inches mounted on a stretched canvas for structural support. I used a variety of mediums and p...