Cody Goodin - The artistic and spiritual journey of Cody Goodin

My goblin of good cheer and the sneaky wine thief would like to wish you all out there the happiest of New Year from all of us here in Codyland. May 2012 be the best year yet despite all the doom and gloom predictions out there.  I personally believe it will be the year of enlightenment.  I am planning on bigger and better things in my life and creative endeavors.  I wish the same for all of you including good health prosperity and abundance.  May the world see more peace than war.  Dance, sing make art and prosper and live long as the Vulcans say.  My love to you all and a BIG sincere thank you for following along on my adventure.  Until next year, Cio.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Festive Kwanzaa and light filled Yule.  May your new year to come be the best ever.  Thank you to all my followers for keeping me inspired and informed.  I love you all.

I wanted to share something a bit different than my usual art fare.  Here is a shot of the finished commission piece I have been working on for a friend.  He wanted me to paint something to represent the sign of Pisces.  The main element is the ruling planet Neptune.  I was asked to create a somewhat accurate portrayal of the planet.  Also the symbols where included as was the constellation of pieces.  I was painted in acrylics and a little mixed media too.  I really like how it turned out.  The big test is whether he will like it. Another piece is for a company gift exchange tomorrow.  My secret person I am giving to doesn't really appreciate the creatures I create.  So, I decided to do something a little more artsy.  I love doing these little sculpted pieces.  I made this one into a magnet.  It measures about 3x3 inches.  I used my sculpting technique using acryl...

Well, with much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth, I finally completed my ornament for this years exchange.  It was for the RiveCity Figurative Artists Guild that I am a member of and our Christmas Brunch tradition  This years theme was to be based on some art form or ism.  Our luncheon is being held in the Cincinnati Art Museums cafe this year.  So, I thought this theme was appropriate.  At the last minute I finally decided to honor our ancient traditions and do a piece loosely based on a variety of petroglyphs.  It is kind of simple but, I really like the way it turned out.  It is very totem like in the way it looks. It's been a busy fall season and I have been one of the lucky artists who have sold a nice amount of work.  At both of the Essex Studios art walks I received a lot of great feedback.  Nothing inspires an artist more than that.  So, I am really inspired to get going on some new things and yes, even a new...

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...

Happiest of Halloween to you all out there in cyberspace.  I hope your week will be off to a spook-tac-u-lar start.  As you may have noticed, I have started to try a few things in the studio.  This process isn't exactly new to me.  But, I haven't sculpted a relief style figure this big as of yet.  So, I have decided to try this format out for a bit.  Unfortunately I have hit the imaginary brick wall in regards to my big project on my mythic journey.  I am struggling with the format and time issues.  You know I am not the most patient of people.  So, this process of planning and trying to create the characters with so many other ideas flying at me and having to work a real job.  Take their toll on my ability to devote tons of time on anything really.  Instead I break it up into little fragments and nothing really gets accomplished it seems.  This seems to be the story of my life of late.  At least the big anxiety wave ha...