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Michael Godard

Michael Godard, The #1 Selling Artist in the World!

Michael Godard martini art features olives, grapes and other frisky characters busily expressing Godard's slightly off-kilter point of view. With plenty of talent to challenge the 'serious' artists, Michael Godard took his own path instead, and chose to "learn all the rules, and then break them".

Born in Southern California, Godard was a precocious kid with a multitude of talents and a dark home life filled with hidden abuse. He excelled in math, music and art—quite an achievement, considering that his family moved around so much that he attended a total of sixteen different schools. Humor was always his defense and his weapon. As a young man he attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and studied fine art at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

The decision to become a full-time painter came later in his life, after stints as a mechanical engineer, commercial illustrator, caricature artist and successful entrepreneur. Nothing came easy—-he fought his way into an art career, inventing his own one-of-a-kind style.

Olives entered the picture when Godard was struggling through his daughter Paige’s illness, spending long hours in the hospital when she was in a coma. Desperate for some cheerful element to keep him afloat emotionally, he started a new series of paintings--bringing olives to life in humorous scenarios, rendering them in bright colors against a dramatic black background.

“Three Amigos”, “Olive Party” and “Seven Deadly Zins” were all breakthrough pieces for the young artist, launching him to national recognition. His wild marketing stunts brought more notoriety. “I don’t mind criticism from the art world or the public,” says the artist. “Without it, I’d know I’m playing it way too safe.”

Now the country’s biggest selling artist, the “Rock Star of the Art World” creates his famous martini-themed artwork for a huge collector base of celebrities, musicians and regular folks who love his irreverent subjects and vibrant style. There’s a long waiting list for Godard original paintings and his sold-out giclees bring big bucks on the resale market.

You might spot Godard on television on HBO’s “Cat House”, A&E’s “Mind Freak”, “American Casino” and “Inked”, among other places. A documentary on his life won awards when it was shown on the independent film festival circuit and his recent book “Don’t Drink and Draw” won the Art Book of the Year award.

He looks like a tattooed outlaw and runs with the bad boys, but Godard has a soft streak a mile wide. He’s a great dad, contributes to many charitable causes, (including the Paige Godard Foundation, established to help fund research to cure the illness that ultimately took his daughter’s life in 2006) and has learned in the school of experience to value the things that really matter in life. “Put good in, get good out,” is one of the artist’s favorite sayings.

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Strawberry Splash by Michael Godard
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Butterfly Wine by Godard Only 1 Left $ 1,595.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Dry Martini with a Twist Limited Availability $ 995.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)	Flying Aces by Godard Limited Availability $ 995.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)
Gangsta Martini - Livin Large 1 available $ 995.00 (Free Shipping)	Marlin Martini Limited Availability $ 1,795.00 (Free Shipping, No Sales Tax)

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Dont Drink and Draw
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You Are In My World Now
$ 29.95

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$100 Bill Full House by Michael Godard $ Call	$1000 Bill Winning Big by Michael Godard $ Call	Bad Grapes by Michael Godard $ Call
Bar Fly by Michael Godard $ Call	Bed of Roses by Michael Godard $ Call	Black Jack and Coke by Michael Godard $ Call
Bottoms Up by Michael Godard $ Call	Bubbly Bath by Michael Godard $ Call	Candlelit Encounter (Heist) $ Call
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Diver Down by Michael Godard $ Call	Dragonfly by Michael Godard $ Call	Elvitini (Heist Edition) $ Call
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Flower, Yellow $ Call	Gangster Martini $ Call	Getting Lucky by Michael Godard $ Call
Go Fishing by Michael Godard $ Call	Gondola Grapes $ Call	He Devil Martini $ Call
He Devil She Devil Martini $ Call	He Devil She Devil Martini II $ Call	He Devil She Devil Red Wine $ Call
He Devil She Devil White Wine $ Call	Heres To You $ Call	Historic Route 66 $ Call
I Smell A Rat by Michael Godard $ Call	Jack & Coke by Michael Godard $ Call	Jazz Martini (Heist Edition) $ Call
Jump Right In by Michael Godard $ Call	Key to Wine $ Call	Last Martini $ Call
Loaded Dice (AP) $ Call	Lost in Paradise $ Call	Lounge Lizard $ Call
Lovers Moon $ Call	Margarita on the Rocks $ Call	Martini Club $ Call
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Nasbar 2 $ Call	Nasbar 2 (Mosaic Mural) $ Call	Nasbar 500 $ Call
Nasbar 500 (Mosaic Mural) $ Call	Nervous Grapes $ Call	Nice Balls $ Call
Nice Rack $ Call	No Lifeguard on Duty $ Call	Olive Party $ Call
Olive Party 2 $ Call	Olive the Other Reindeer $ Call (No Sales Tax)	Olives Gone Wild $ Call
On the Throne $ Call	Original Sin $ Call	Paradise Found $ Call
Party Like a Rock Star (Rock Star) $ Call	Passed Out (Heist) $ Call	Perfect Zen by Michael Godard $ Call
Phat Cat by Michael Godard $ Call	Plop $ Call	Pocket Rockets All In $ Call
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Pool Shark II Empty Pockets $ Call	Pop the Top (Heist) $ Call	Praying for 7 $ Call
Real Estate Sold $ Call	Rehab $ Call	River Run $ Call
Scotch and Black Jack $ Call	Seven Deadly Zins $ Call	Seven Heavenly Chards $ Call
Sexy Strawberry (Heist Edition) $ Call	Shattered Roll $ Call	She Devil Martini $ Call
She Devil Wine $ Call	Shooting the Wad $ Call	Sitting on 7 s $ Call
Smokin Martini $ Call	Stack & Burn $ Call	Strawberry Margarita $ Call
Strike It Rich $ Call	Sweet Symphony $ Call	Swinging Martini $ Call
T d Off $ Call	Texas Hold Em $ Call	Three Amigos $ Call
Times Square by Michael Godard $ Call	Turley Wine (Artist Proof) $ Call	Turley Wine (Heist) $ Call
Twisted Martini $ Call	Watch Dog by Michael Godard $ Call	We Olive 2 Gamble $ Call
We Olive Michael Jordan by Godard $ Call	When Grapes Dream by Michael Godard $ Call	Wine Cellar $ Call

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