Cody Goodin - The artistic and spiritual journey of Cody Goodin

Happy Halloween everyone.  Here is my broom dancer making her way back from the past to give a little scary appearance here on the old blog.  She was one of my earlier grand ladies. I hope you all have a spectacular Halloween and may it be safe as well.  The weather here in Cincinnati is supposed to be a bit stormy and rainy.  Kind of appropriate for this day I supposed.  See you all in November.

Hello out there in blog land.  I apologize for the long delays in posting.  It has been a busy few weeks for many reasons.  One of which I am experimenting on some Photoshop techniques for processing the images for my Graphic Novel Project or GNP as I lovingly call it now.  The series of images were made from a series of photographs my friend David Walker took of my studio when I had made lots of heads waiting for their next stages of development  I used a cool filter called Lithograph to get the basic effect.  Then it was tweaked in the image menu with the adjustments functions. This image is a cropped version from the above using a adjustment palette of saturation and contrast  to achieve this look. This is another image using color saturation and contrast in addition to a noise filter called dust and scratches. Finally this is a two layer picture that uses the lithograph filter with a layer...

Oh, how sweet it is to finally get back to posting.  It seems like months even though I know it's only been a few weeks.  I have been through my prostate surgery and am recovering at home.  I will be returning to work at the art store next week.  I am not feeling ready for that but, I can't do without a paycheck for long.  Anyway, here is one piece that was almost finished before surgery that I finally did complete today.  She is old woman of the willow.  I am not sure where I am going from here creatively speaking.  I am not feeling overly enthusiastic to get into it again.  I am sure that is due to the surgery and recovery process. Old woman of the willow is a polymer clay sculpt over a willow branch and then painted and glazed.  I added a bit of fiber to give her the feeling of some sort of greenery.  Not really sure about that one, but it is OK. Here is a close up of her.  I really liked doing this sculpt. ...

Here I am at the end of one week and the beginning of another.  I wanted to post some in progress pics of more new direction pieces.  This has been a summer of change so far for me.  So, I am feeling a sense of urgency and need to get a few art pieces done before my surgery next week.  Above is Old Woman Willow sculpted and cured.  I am using some curly willow again and have used super sculpey and apoxie sculpt for the body sections.  I am planning on creating a number of pieces that incorporate these branches.  This idea all started with my sea goblins.  Using seashell to make the home or extensions of the goblins body gave rise to these hybrid works.  Years ago I used sticks for the main support element in some of my wall pieces.  Evolution is a good thing here I suppose. There is a close up as the first picture to give you a better view of the willow womans face.  Next I get to paint her up...