Dan Nelson Art

Specialties

Dan Nelson is a full-​time professional artist.

His specialty is Live Event Painting! Just Google Dan Nelson Art for more information.

His NON-​Live Event Paintings are sold in galleries across North Carolina:

In the Triangle:

— Nicole’s Studio

— Little Art Gallery

— Waverly Artists Group

Elsewhere in NC:

— Carolina Creations in New Bern

— Arts n’ Things in Morehead City

— The Mattie King Gallery in Beaufort

— The Lemonade Gallery in Washington, NC

— Ann Jacobs Gallery in Highlands

History

Established in 2004.

Dan earned a BFA back in the days when people used pens and pencils to draw with! (It was just a few years after cave paintings.) He spent most of his adult life as a Freelance Illustrator, becoming known primarily for his Pen & Ink illustrations and cartoons. (How funny is THAT!?) Dan began his journey into «Fine Art» in about 2004, and has been slinging paint– especially in front of audiences– ever since.

Meet the Business Owner

Dan N.

Business Owner

DAN NELSON,

America’s Premier Live Event Painter

If you combine three parts painter, two and a half parts musician, a pound or two of inventor, and a heaping tablespoon of show-​off. .. you just might come up with a Dan Nelson, Art Adventurer Extraordinaire. «I’ve always had a hard time playing by the rules» Dan says of his career. «If there is a conventional and well-​worn path in the art business. .. you’ll have to look for me somewhere else.»

Dan made his living for decades as a freelance illustrator, winning competitions in everything from street painting to sand sculpture. At the same time he began mesmerizing audiences by producing 8-​by-​10-​foot masterpieces in the streets and parks of Raleigh, North Carolina, his hometown.

Besides setting up his plein air easel anywhere from California to Cote d’ Azure, Dan spends much of his time doing Live Art Performances in cities large and small, painting at festivals, concerts, and fund-​raisers. He has painted for the NC Symphony,