Walter Daniels has been an artist for most of his life.
He started drawing cartoons and comic strips at an early age, dabbled in charcoals and pastels and then took on the adventure of water colors and oil painting. At the age of seventeen while living by the ocean he was painting sea scapes in oil and selling them as a part time job. He moved through school taking art classes and winning several art contests in both drawing and sculpture. In his senior year he was introduced to the theatre arts, building sets and props and of course painting them. It was then that a whole new field of art opened up to him. He went to Santa Monica College and studied art and theatre arts, hoping his talent and the education would open doors to his new found goal of becoming an Art Director. After college he worked in the theater industry for several years and found that this was not his passion in life after all.

           Getting married and becoming a father slowed down his painting only for a short period of time. It wasn't long before he was teaching the arts to his children. He taught them the arts of drawing and painting and taught art classes at their grammar school. He feels this was his real education coupled with going to as many art musems, galleries and auction houses as possible to study the works of the old masters. For the last twenty years he has been painting people of all walks of life. Focusing his paintings on people in everyday situations became his passion and set the theme for his portfolio. Working in the theater gave him a certain degree of imaginative interpretation for setting up the models in his scenes, for this is demonstrated in his paintings. He strives to convey strength and character in his paintings and enhance the essential characteristics of the subject while keeping an overall balance. Walter belongs to several art organizations and has won numerous awards for his works, although this only plays a small role in his life. What is important to him is the look on peoples' faces and the appreciation they convey when they receive one of his paintings.