C.D. Good, Duncan, BC Videos
Videos by C.D. Good in Duncan. Paintings and Sculpture that transmit the force of nature.
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This summer has been slow with opening the paint tubes. I’ve made candles, dyed clothes and settled into my cabin in the woods. Understanding my life experience as someone with a brain injury has helped, and now how it heals and retrains has been interesting, just slow. I am drawn to do more Plein air, ( outside in nature) in the coming weeks.
My goal in drawing is to arrive at a feeling of “rightness” and allow my mind to be at total rest as the hand and heart move together as one experience. The result is a feeling of natural world wanting to emerge from the sketch book page. Constantly changing in different lights and different moods.
Snow is so sparkly. With my screen so full of text and images it is nice to just look at sparkly snow. When aboriginal people were shown 2 dimensional images they couldn’t discern the shapes. They were seeing things so differently and had to be taught. I wonder if that is something that could be learned.
It held together! A hazelnut for a brain, a wrapped secret note heart that I carried from Ontario, spine from wheat and a molten glass kidney. It’s even more interesting on the back side but will be mounted on the tansy grid. Much intention and symbolic mind set shifts and conquering an inner critic that has become my friend.
It’s helpful to work in 3 D after that last painting. This one is for the Wild Wings Art Festival at Just Jakes. It’s an online sale and artists get 70 percent and Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society gets 30. See more of their events in comments below. This is from earlier this summer from the posts I did for a week course with The Becoming Artist by Jessica Serran. #jawdroppingart2022
My favourite thing to do is take the sheep over to the other side of the fence where the grass is certainly greener. They have been staring at that yard for weeks and the joy they eat with is so fun to watch.
Oil painting is not at all easy. I’ve been working with it much of my life. I’m using walnut oil and natural pigment and it’s a real relief not to use turpentine. This is for donation to a fundraiser for The Gathering (a retirement home) Was happy to have it kick start me as Sooke Arts Council paid for the supplies.
Terrible lighting! I’ll show you in the morning but just wanted to end the day. I had to get a load of firewood and visit a dying friend this morning so had less time. As I was working I remembered the tree outside my grandparents window and I felt a deep connection to that child. I let her paint with me a bit. It was such a sweet feeling. She knew so much but really no one to share as she was so alone much of the time. Nice to connect through the art which makes time more like layers than seiarate points on a line.
Painting into the evening here as I love golden hour. This is for the Plein Air Event by Sooke Arts Council and the painting will be for auction. Here is the location. Just a normal field in the beautiful Cowichan Valley in Glenora, on one of the original european settlements on unceded land by the Vaux family. I feel fortunate to have the privilege for time, materials and education to do this work. Grateful to the spirit of the land which seems to enjoy my tending, curiosity and attention.
Today I am participating in the Plein Air event put on by the Sooke Arts Council. Instead of travelling to Wiffen Spit, I’ll stay on the Cedar Falls hobby farm where I am currently the resident artist. Sooke Arts Council will pay for art supplies ( $100 honorarium) and I will donate the original painting to an auction to raise money for The Gathering, a Seniors Center in Sooke, British Columbia. Will let you know when that is so you could bid. I will personally sell the limited print edition on acrylic and metal from this page. The painting will be exhibited at the Sooke Arts council gallery for month of October. #painting #pleinairpainting #pleinair Wish me luck! Will post at 2 pm here about what is evolving in this process. ✨✨🌀✨✨
If you’d like to make a painting. 1) Get a blank canvas from JSYK or other supplier. 2) Coat with a chalk paint. I used a light grey. 2) After it dries do a wash of an acrylic pearl and turquoise metallic paint 3) Then take some wool and smear with oil paint of gold and other colours you like. 4) scratch into it, smear and continue until the feeling says “that’s it!”. #painting
Powdered natural pigment and walnut oil is very soothing and intriguing to work with, it’s so different and I can feel so overwhelmed at all the options when facing a blank canvas like I was today again. The question is ”Why” what can possibly be painted that no one has not done thousands of paintings already out there. But my heart says… you must. You must speak for me, for the work is to emerge an original beautiful way to be.
A painting that I did in Oregon is coming closer to meet me thanks to a friend of my sister in her RV.
Last week was an exploration in journalling and an immersive art process that was just what I needed. Over last few months, I had been distracted and stuck. Even though I’m in a perfect setting with supplies, and a fair amount of time. On Saturday the weather was perfect to paint with oils on canvas outside in one of my favorite places. #vancouverisland #artist #NATUREISREAL #beherenow
This animation shows a transformation of a painting on paper to be the embodiment of some inner trepidations that have been surfacing as I attempt to understand this next phase of my life. What transpired is an image that was made on my iPad with the help of #AI I find it fascinating.
A beginning of a week to work with over 200 creatives online who are bringing out what is their most meaningful interesting work with the idea that “The most personal is the most universal”.
You are the Point.
Painting on prints today! You still get an original innanway in a way, but its not nearly as expensive. This one is $230 and will be shipped tomorrow to Ontario after it dries.