The upper half of the page is dabbed with faint powder puff shapes of pastel color creating violet clouds against a gray-white sky. Below there is a thin pale horizontal line of blue horizon. From the bottom of the page to about a third of the way up the page, in the foreground is a wash of colors (blues, purples, reds) blending into each other, creating the illusion of water fading into to the thin band of white shoreline. In from the shoreline is another horizontal band, where red and purplish browns suggest tall dry grasses in front of bolder stroked tree trunks with powder puff foliage of red and purple rising to the horizon.
Winter Storm #1
oil pastel
30" x 22"
In the background in the upper right corner and peaking through the spongy, mossy textured blue green leaves, that cover most of the top two thirds of the image, is pale blue sky. In the foreground, thin graceful sloping vertical lines of shades of yellows, greens and browns depict tall grasses, and two darker brown converging lines, suggesting a dirt road, curve back into the trees.
Agua y Sombra
oil pastel
30" x 22"

Dan Godfrey – Artist Statement

Dan Godfrey has been painting as a professional artist since the mid 1960's after graduating with an MA in Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico in 1962. Dan's work runs the entire gamut of media and includes watercolor, pastel, oil pastel, pen and ink, oils, acrylics and mixed media and even sculpture in metal and stone. His work includes as subject matter landscapes, portraits, nudes, still lifes and wildlife. Dan has won top awards, the most recent being first place in a statewide competition at the Bardean Miniature yearly exhibit in 1996.

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