Cody Goodin - The artistic and spiritual journey of Cody Goodin

Well, it has been a bit long since my last post.  But, I have been playing around with some new photo editing software.  I have purchased two different software alternatives to Photoshop.  Not wishing to keep upgrading to infinity and paying such great cost, I opted for some highly recommended pro programs.  OnONe Perfect Photo Suite collection and NIK Photo collection.  Both of thes software packages offer some great versatility. SO, I am going to post a few of my fun little redoux's for your viewing pleasure.  My subjects are some heads awaiting bodies and partially completed doll projects from the past. This series of images was created by processing them in the High Dynamic Range module from the NIK collection.  This first picture is entitled Judging from behind. This picture I have titled "In Search of Peace". This one is called "Oh?" Here we have" Eunice trying to say something meaningful." "Gossip." I hope ...

Well, I am back from my awesome weekend to Artiscape.  It is a yearly mixed media workshop conference put on by European Papers in Columbus Ohio.  It is a wonderful mixed bag of artistic journeys.  I had the pleasure of teaching two classes and giving an artist demo on the first night.  Above is a picture of the view in the topiary garden that was down the street from our hotel.  It is a recreation of the famous George Surat painting Sunday on the Island of La Grand Galotte or something like that.  Anyway the figures are all recreated in topiary. Here is a picture of a couple of the characters.  I thought the park was lovely.  It is actually on the grounds of the original school for the Deaf. Saturday I taught acrylic mediums for mixed media class.  This was an introduction to some of the fun acrylic mediums on the market.  My students created a set of four ATC sized pieces using the mediums. ...