Daniel Art and Yarn will be participating as an artisan vendor in the Downtown Garner “April Foods Day Food Truck Rodeo” with a booth featuring our paintings, eggshell dioramas, and handmade crochet items – all perfect for gifts or to enhance your home. The event is being held on Sunday, March 26, 2023 from 12...
The Female Hoopoe is an Artist
February 11, 2023by Hugh Daniel
The female Hoopoe is an artist who is paid for her work. But before sailing too far into this flightful fancy, you might be wondering, “What is a Hoopoe?” Common throughout parts of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, the Hoopoe (genus Upupa) is an easily recognized bird due to its zebra stripes and...
Beth Shalom Art Fair Participation on 2/5
February 5, 2023by Hugh Daniel
Daniel Art and Yarn participated in the Art Fair held at Temple Beth Shalom on Sunday, February 5, 2023 from 11:00am to 3:00pm at 5713 Yates Mill Pond Rd, Raleigh, NC 27606. A number of new pieces were displayed including quite a few 2″x2″ miniature art pieces using a multi-paper layered approach. These include the...
Creating Eggshell Dioramas
January 22, 2023by Hugh Daniel
In a previous post, “A Light for Dark Times,” I talked about how my Aunt Clara had a major impact on my budding interest in art through watching her make Eggshell Dioramas. Unfortunately, none of my tentative fifth grader attempts at making dioramas have survived through the intervening half-century. No surprise, considering the number of...
DAY at the Handmade Hanukkah Sale 2022
December 15, 2022by Hugh Daniel
Karen and Hugh Daniel participated in Temple Beth Or’s Handmade Hanukkah sale on Sunday, December 4, 2022 in Raleigh, NC. Over 40 artisans were represented and attendance was excellent. We were grateful both for all our new customers and for meeting so many talented artists! Looking forward to Handmade Hanukkah 2023!
In our first outdoors art market since the pandemic, Daniel Art and Yarn participated in the Tar River Arts Collaborative Art Market on June 11, 2022 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Karen showed her crochet creations, from bracelets to crochet vests and purses. Hugh displayed both full size and miniature paintings of a wide variety...
These are two more little pieces for Raleigh’s Handmade Hanukkah market. They are tiny 2″ x 2″ canvases painted with acrylics and set on a tiny easel. The reason for posting however is because the memories stirred up while I was painting make me want to tell a story. When I was in the 5th...
Artsplosure – The Raleigh Arts Festival returns on October 9 – 10, 2021 in the heart of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. As one of the Southeast’s premier arts festivals, Raleigh Arts Festival attracts more than 80,000 people to downtown Raleigh during the third weekend of May each year. Celebrating fine visual art and live music...
Keeping Knife and Scissor Blades Clean
September 12, 2020by Hugh Daniel
Many of us are getting things delivered and opening boxes sealed with tape using scissors or pocket knives. Which results in getting the blades gunked up with adhesive from the tape. This dulls the blades and makes it both harder to have a clean cut, and to keep from getting gunk on the items you...
(From the Chattanooga Association for Visual Arts website) The 2020 4 Bridges Arts Festival has gone virtual! The 4 Bridges Arts Festival app is available now in the Apple and Google Play App Stores, for smartphones and tablets. It’s free to download and free to use, though we do ask users to register with an...