Friday, January 23, 2026

💜 In the age of anxiety, what deserves our attention? 💜

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


Our bikes race up and down the gentle hills of Provence. Everything has a distinct texture. The colors are vibrant, and the perfume in the air is intoxicating. Every twisting road reveals countless rows of purple and blue lavender. The Mediterranean sun presses warmly against our backs as we pedal toward the village of Sault. I will never forget the fields of France.

Some days call for stillness rather than stimulation. When life feels slightly out of balance, our surroundings can help us breathe again. This painting was created to hold that feeling of ease, movement, and warmth. A quiet place for your eyes to rest when the world feels loud.

Are you looking for a piece that brings color, motion, and a sense of grounded beauty into your space? This may be the one.

💜 Lavender Farm 💜
acrylic paint on canvas
16" x 20" (40.6 cm x 50.8 cm)
2021070063
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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This piece would look best in a small space that is red, orange, yellow, green, dark/light blue, dark purple, white, black, grey, beige, or wood.


I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

❄️☃️ Would You Follow This Path? ☃️❄️

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


I followed the path because it was still there, pressed into the snow between bare trees and a blue winter sky that felt brighter than the cold beneath my feet. Each step revealed earth under white, a quiet reminder that warmth does not vanish, it waits. The woods were still and honest, far from the noise of civilization, a place where the light softened everything and asked nothing of me. Walking there, I felt alone in a way that steadied me, unhurried and unobserved, a place I could return to whenever the world felt too loud. 

If you stepped onto this path, what would you hope to leave behind, and what would you want to carry with you?

❄️☃️ The Silence That Endures ☃️❄️
acrylic paint on canvas board
8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202111102
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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This painting would look best in a space that is red, yellow, orange, purple, green, brown, beige, grey, white, black, or wood.


I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Friday, January 16, 2026

🌳 Where Does This Path Take You? 🌳

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


Where this path will end is a mystery. The trees rustle in the breeze stirring up the aromas of the forest. A freshness one always has to remind themselves of in civilization. The light refracts in strange ways at this time. It's when the surreal becomes the real.

Is there a place you go to relax? Is it wide-open or cozy? What do you see, hear, smell, and feel when you are there? Is it a place where you can be by yourself? What about it makes you feel good?

🌳 Twilight Woods 🌳
acrylic paint on canvas board
16" x 20" (40.6 cm x 50.8 cm) 
202105036
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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This piece would look best in a space that is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, gray, or wood.


I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

💜🌻 What If a Place You Loved Could Stay With You? 🌻💜

 Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


Our bikes race up and down the gentle hills of Provence. Everything has a distinct texture, the colors are vibrant, and the perfume in the air is intoxicating. Every twisting road reveals new rows of lavender stretching endlessly under the sun. I will never forget the fields of France.

This little painting is small, simple, and easy to bring into your life. It fits in almost any room and ships securely to your door, ready to brighten your space. No stress and no extra steps. Just color and memory waiting for you.

Art is more than something pretty on a wall. It carries feelings, memories, and a little bit of hope. If this piece speaks to you, it may be because it already belongs with you.

This piece would look best in a small-to-medium space that is red, orange, dark yellow, light green, dark blue, purple, white, black, grey, beige, or wood.

💜🌻 Sunflowers and Lavender In Provence 🌻💜
Museum-quality posters made on thick matte paper
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
201801012
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I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Monday, January 12, 2026

🐳 Where do you let yourself drift when you need space for Freedom? 🐳

 Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


When I painted this piece, I was thinking about what it feels like to move through the world while quietly holding a much larger sense of possibility inside yourself. The great fish drifts forward with calm confidence, its body buoyant and steady, as if it already knows it can become more than it appears. There is no urgency here, only motion, curiosity, and the soft freedom of becoming. I return to this image as a reminder that expansion does not have to be loud or forceful, and that even small spaces can hold vast ideas. This painting is meant to be a gentle companion, something you can live with and come back to when you need to remember your own capacity to grow.

What part of you is ready to move forward without rushing, trusting that it already knows how to become?

🐳 Great Fish of the Northern Deep 🐳
acrylic paint of canvas board
5" x 7" (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm)
202102005
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Friday, January 9, 2026

❄️☃️🌞 Where do you find warmth when everything else feels cold? 🌞☃️❄️

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


I stepped into the winter woods expecting quiet and cold, but instead I felt a warmth waiting for me, glowing low and steady behind the bare trees like a held breath. The snow softened my footsteps, the branches reached upward in patient lines, and that deep red light pulsed at the center of it all, a reminder that even in the starkest season something alive is still burning. Standing there, I felt my worries thin out, as if winter wasn’t an ending but a place where strength learns how to glow from within. A warmth I knew I would want to return to, again and again. 

What part of yourself is quietly keeping its warmth, even now?

❄️☃️🌞 Warmth That Remains 🌞☃️❄️
acrylic paint on canvas board
8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202112104
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

🦊 What Are You Rushing Toward In 2026? 🦊

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


I was walking the same quiet street I always do when I noticed the fox standing perfectly still, as if it had stepped out of a thought rather than the brush. It didn’t rush away or look afraid, just watched the world with a calm that felt earned, its rusted coat bright against the soft lavender of evening. For a moment, the noise of schedules and worries loosened, and I felt invited into that pause, reminded that wildness can live beside us without asking permission. This painting holds that moment for me, a quiet meeting I can return to.

When was the last time you let yourself stop, notice, and meet the world with that kind of quiet attention?

🦊 The Stillness Before Moving 🦊
Museum-quality posters made on thick matte paper
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
202512075
Created to hold a moment of quiet attention and shared wildness 

I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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