Dan Kraus enjoys using his artistic gifts to create moments of focus, connection, and insight, creating representational and/or figurative works in graphite, oil, watermedia, and clay. He especially enjoys capturing likeness with his many portrait commissions.

He studied portrait painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA and has taken numerous workshops with nationally recognized master painters and sculptors.

He is a contributing member in the Waterway Arts Association, WACG, the Seacoast Artists Guild, SC Watermedia Society,  Brookgreen Gardens, American Medallic Sculpture Association, and the National Sculpture Society.