Cody Goodin - The artistic and spiritual journey of Cody Goodin

Well, I have finally completed my "Trees" series of paintings. I am submitting them for an artist grant that is given to individual artists by a local organization here in Cincinnati. I kept the titles simple. They are Tree #1 through #7. This series of paintings were created in acrylics, acrylic mediums and modeling paste. The inspiration for these paintings was that of nature. The tree to me is an iconic symbol of nature. As an artist with a visual impairment, a tactile approach was what I wanted to do. You can touch these paintings and feel the trees and the texture around them. I look at them as a modern fossil. Immortalizing the tree as a special and precious part of the natural world. You may notice that three of them are familiar. I have taken better photos of them and have included them here. I hope you enjoy them.

Here is a close up of Absynth.

Here is my latest house goblin "Absynth". He likes to put that extra something special in your wine glass so you tend to forget what you did the night before.

The button theif is the next in the house goblin series. He takes delight in sneaking around snatching loose buttons off of your cloths without you suspecting a thing. He hordes them in his secret hiding place. So, the next time you find a button has gone missing you may have one of his kinfolk living in your house. They can be coaxed into trading some of their button stash for the right snack. He is a full polymer clay sculpt over a wire amrature. He was then painted and stained to give him his subtle color. I used texture mats to create the textured skin. He is standing on an old fence top that has been weathered to perfetion. Around him is a collection of old buttons and a few antique spools of thread. He is available for purchase as is the coffee goblin below. Just email me for price. I have yet to set up an Etsy shop.

Well, after much ado and chasing this guy around to finsih him up, he is ready for his close up. Presenting "Bita Java" the coffee goblin of the House Goblin clan. He is made of polymer clay over a paper mache armature. He's colored with a variety of layers of acrylic paints and mediums and a final stain coat of two different colors of stain. His eyes are hand blown glass marbles. Bita is perched atop a nice china coffee/tea cup waiting for your morning coffee. Enjoy!

Our August art challenge at work was to create a photo collage. I chose to do a photo msaic using images I had taken as well as altered of my coworkers and images related to my work experience. I used a source image of myself as the mosaic image. I think it turned out pretty cool for my second try. I am really enjoying these art challenges at work. They tend to get me to try something new or stretch my abilities in some way. On Another note, I am the featured artist in August at a local art and gift gallery called Crone Cottage and Creative Hands. It is located at 605 Fairfield Ave. RT.8 in Bellevue Ky. The opening is 6-9 pm. It should be a lot of fun. There's even live music to listen too. If you are in the area stop by and say hello.

I rarely do in the process pics. Mostly cause I don't think to do it. But, for this project I had my camera near by. This is another in my tea/coffee cup creature series. This guy is going to be a coffee goblin. His whole reason for being is to make your coffee bitter. You defenently don't want this guy to show up in your coffee maker. He is an inspriation from the Spiderwick Chronicle series. The doll club I belong to locally is having a challenge based on the Spiderwick series. This will be the first of several, I hope. This is the intial sculpt before I get to the refinement stage. Hopefully, he'll be finished for the opening of a show where I will be the featured artist. I will post more on that a bit later in the week. A big thank you to all of you who keep coming back and checking out my space here.