Amy Goodwin

happy halloween

trick or treating tonite:
Thing 2
Major Cool
Ghost Girl

I am in the studio waiting for some beeswax to melt.
Another day devoted to working on a portrait.
I often can't focus before I leave for the studio.
Left alone, in my head, again.
The long term ideas, the short term experiments, the different audiences
and the commissions. A big jumble.
Where to begin?
Somedays I just wrestle with the luxury of it all.

light in my studio

YEAH

Go Red Sox

blurry girl

halloween is coming
I love this knitted wig

so happy CG is better

I'm working on a portrait commission today.
This is a small selection of favorite portraits by other artists.

from the New Art Collective show
see photo album

Sunstroke
encaustic, gold leaf, graphite

My great grandfather was a political cartoonist.
His pen name was Goody.
These are a few of his sketches

Mouse
22x30"
ink on paper

Feline
ink on paper
22x30"

Night Swimming
encaustic
24x36

Neptune
encaustic on panel
11x14x2"

girl out of focus
flocking and ink on paper
32x50"

In second grade I wore an eye patch to remedy my lazy eye.
It did not fix it.

One of the nice things…

…about this shade idea is the cascading light.

I called the designs Bright Sky Shades and had a few companies interested.
Like everything if you want it done you really just need to do it yourself.
This is tone of 3 patented designs.

Bright Sky

Another design

dreamy

We don't have shades in the Flatpak House but it would be fun to think up
a version for our large windows.

more Sofie is always a good thing

I will miss you Maudie

Monday…

…can feel like this

Setting things on fire (with controlled conditions) can be thrilling.

this is the best idea

I need a pillow wig

you can see more here:
http://jooyounpaek.com/pillowig.html

art and food

Neiman Marcus is offering a His & Hers portrait made out of chocolate syrup by the artist Vic Muniz

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/sitelets/christmasbook/fantasy.jhtml?cid=OCBF8_NMO2791&cmCat=christmas&icid=NMCB

fibi

These are images of a project I worked on ages ago.
Fibi (like Fibonacci series) ia a beach float.
I tried to get some manufacturers interested but they all thought it was "too weird."
That was then…maybe now I'd have some takers.
Anybody?

more bunny

watch this:
http://www.bravia-advert.com/ny_downloads/downloads.html

then this:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/play-doh/sony-bravia-ad-showcases-mick-keef-and-a-tsunami-of-bunnies-306942.php

open studio weekend…

…Is over. Thank you to all the kind friends who dragged themselves to this annual event. You made my 10 hours of studio sitting much more enjoyable.
My husband often jokes that I am a kook magnet. I noticed some truth to his theory on Saturday. I listened to a man describe his collection of over 100 gargoyles. He strategically arranges the little creatures in his yard in order to keep his ex wife away. Because my studio is littered with hollow plastic animals I think the man felt a kinship. He lingered while I sighed.

animal magnetism

This began as a tape drawing and evolved into a painting.
This wall is just outside my studio.

way back when

I made this series of laser cut mirrors back when I was in grad school. They were a visual response to a rewriting of the myth Echo & Narcissus.

Flatpak

A house a few streets away from ours recently underwent a facelift. The plastic stained glass door replaced with a honey colored wood frame. The windows changed from casement to divided light casement. A new entryway pergola waits for droopy foliage to grow on it. Finally the owner painted the house trim a warm red and the body of the house a blue tinted green. House colors are tricky. It all looks nice as a paint swatches on paper but slather the latex onto the siding in the middle of a landscape filled with yellow green leafy trees and you see a different visual.

For the Flatpak we had to pick everything by swatch and then hold our breath as it was installed. For the exterior we slected a nuetral assortment of materials. The main goal driving our choices was to create a maintenance free exterior. Wood was out as were the powdercoat colors that would fade in a few years. We ended up with the barny combination of dark gray Cembonit, silver Galvalume, and patches of warm red and sparkly charcoal powdercoat.

I am getting the urge to change it but for now I will just alter the exterior on my computer.

I think water and swimming offer a space of no stress. A free pass for a short time. The muscles in my back stop wincing and my mind flops around from one subject to the next. That small suspension from the regular pressures, both literal and figurative, is such a treat.

float

water world

When I needed some source imagery of swimmers I posted a notice at the Brown University Swim Center.
A number of people contacted me and offered to be my water model. Here are a few pics of Yifan who was on the Brown Swim Team.

stripes