Good morning friends.
We are thrilled to have Guido Daniele featured on “The Good News Channel” this morning. As many of you know I spent my whole life in New York City where you think you’ve seen everything. I was telling Mr. Daniele I never knew this category of art existed. When I saw his animals paintings and what they were being painted on, I almost fell off my chair. I said myself; “This has to be an illusion, I must be seeing things”
Elephant
But this was no illusion. Gudio Daneile is a hand artist. He uses people’s actual hands to paint majestic and exotic animals that look as life like as the real thing. Each time I see a new image he painted, I literally cannot believe its someone’s hand.
Gorilla
While doing my research on Mr. Daniele, what I loved most was his passion for animals. Not his astonishing hand are of animals, but his compassion for real animals. He has felt a kinship since he was 4 years old. He speaks of a time when him and his brother found a dead wasp and they made her a gave with flower on it. Through Guido’s hand paintings he brings major attention to endangered and their shrinking habitats. But it goes its much broader then that, Guido wants attention brought to all the homeless in need of a better life, and the horrible conditions of farm animals giving their lives for our feed and are treated like they are in a Nazi Concentration camps. Mr. Daniele has been public about the horrors taking place with dogs and cats in meat eating festivals throughout China.
Cheetah
Guido Daniele is a true animal lover in every sense of the word. That is what attracted me even more so then his hand animals art work. We all in the “Everybody Loves Sammy” from around the world as animal loving people can complete relate to how he feels.
Guido Daniele and two Lemurs just hanging like a bunch of buddies
After I feature Guido’s story, I am going to share 3 of my many video and audio messages with him messages about animal equality, kindness, rescue and welfare. Most of you already know the video I did called “Where is the Geneva Convention for Animals?” and another video called; ” The Second Amendment from the Perspective of an Animal” — I think Mr. Daniele will really appreciate them. Lastly I will share with the piece I did on “The Dog and Cat Meat trade throughout Asia” — But enough on me, this is his feature.
Bald Eagle using two hands
So below is is straight from Mr. Daniele’s website about his background. He artistic talents, techniques and knowledge goes centuries back. It goes so far back, I am not even going to attempt to paraphrase it. I’m just going to use his words from his website to make sure its said correctly.
Raccoon
From 1964 to 1968 he attended Brera artistic High School. He graduated from Brera School of Arts (major in sculpturing) in 1972. He lived in India since 1972 to 1974 where he attended the Tankas school in Dharamsala. Since 1968 he has been painting and participating to personal and group art exhibitions. In 1972 he started working as hyper-realistic illustrator, in co-operation with major editing and advertising companies, using and testing different painting techniques.
Dolphin
The Tibetan painting technique is a technique of miniature with high precision that even in Europe grew from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance with great skill throughout Europe. The miniatures were painted on paper, canvas, ceramics, miniatures were made with mosaics, with jewels, with sculptures and there was an artistic exchange between west and east, the King of European countries ordered beautiful works to give to the kings of India, Nepal, China , Thailand, Korea, Laos and Japan.
Guido Daniele and his son Michael James Daniele on Nosi Iranja island in Madagascar
Since 1986 he has been working and improving his personal usage of airbrush: he paints back-stages in different sizes (the biggest ones can be 400 square meters) for artistic and advertising pictures, TV commercials and programs. He also creates trompe l’oeil, which is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted …both in private houses and public buildings.
ELK
In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones: using the body painting technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions.
Iguana
Its search started in 2000 about “Handimals” maked with the method of body painting on hands has a great international interest. The Process is as such; I try first a hand who suits the animal I want to paint, I make some pictures of the hand in the correct position before beginning to paint, then I paint the hand even if it is relaxed and when I finished I try to find the initial position for shoot a final photograph.
Lemur
Guido Daneie has painted over 80 Hand Animals. They take him anywhere from 6 to 1o hours to paint. He mentions that the most difficult Hand Animal Paintings he’s done, has been snakes and a peacock.
Horse
Daniele is committed to wildlife protection and has become increasingly involved with charities such as WWF, the Jane Goodall Institute, Dolphin Aid, Innocence in Danger, PLAN, APNEEF and Liliane Fonds.
Pilgrim Hawk
Sammy & Family obviously read many things on this impressive gentleman with a heart of gold. What I really loved reading was how it talked about passion is the driving force that keeps him going. He loves what he does. He said that the effect of being passionate brings the ideas to him naturally and then he goes and executes them. That was not the exact quote, but it was something along those similar lines.
In my last correspondence with him, he mentioned he is 64 years old and the next 20 years will be his best work ever. Sammy & Family has no doubt about that. Guido Daniele is a once in a lifetime artist with a message of compassion and the actions of a humanitarian.
Guido Daniele with two Lemurs in Madagascar
Daniele is committed to wildlife protection and has become increasingly involved with charities such as WWF, the Jane Goodall Institute, Dolphin Aid, Innocence in Danger, PLAN, APNEEF and Liliane Fonds.
Website; http://www.guidodaniele.com/
On Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/GuidoDanielepagina?fref=ts
LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/pub/guido-daniele/5/936/579
