Mike Kraus: USA

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Friday, April 5, 2024

Total Solar Eclipse

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Total Solar Eclipse
acrylic paint on canvas board
202404008
8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.

To purchase for your home, please visit: https://mikekrausart.etsy.com/listing/248928242

A total solar eclipse will take place at the Moon's ascending node on Monday, April 8, 2024, visible across North America and dubbed the Great North American Eclipse (also Great American Total Solar Eclipse and Great American Eclipse) by some of the media. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs only in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. (from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024)

For more information, please visit: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/

Total Solar Eclipse

acrylic paint on canvas board

202404009

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)

To purchase for your home, please visit: https://mikekrausart.etsy.com/listing/1487002319

Total Solar Eclipse

acrylic paint on canvas board

202404010

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)

To purchase for your home, please visit: https://mikekrausart.etsy.com/listing/213712985

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Friday, March 8, 2024

Maritime Alerts: Distress Signal Received

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Maritime Alerts: Distress Signal Received

acrylic paint on canvas board

16" x 20" (40.6 cm x 50.8 cm)

202403004

To purchase for your home, please visit: https://mikekrausart.etsy.com/listing/227527508

NAVAREA IV 266/2020 (14)

WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.

DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED ON 406 MHZ

IN 37-15.5N 051-07.7W.

VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP

LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.

REPORTS TO RCC BOSTON,

PHONE: 617 223 8555,

E-MAIL: RCCBOSTON@USCG.MIL.

210457Z MAR 2020 RCC BOSTON 210449Z MAR 20.

This painting would look great in a space that is dark red, yellow, green, light blue, purple, black, white, grey, or wood.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Decisions of Destiny

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Decisions of Destiny

acrylic paint on canvas board

5" x 7" (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm)
201909087

© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
To purchase for your home, please visit: https://mikekrausart.etsy.com/listing/741169077

Do you see the ugliness? He screams cruelty and cocoons them in lies. The source of our anxieties in a time of need. He is pitiful as he and his faithful followers have never known love. There is so much good and beauty if we reject this menace. We've seen the consequences already. To choose him again will be our demise.

This painting would great in a small space that is red, orange, light yellow, green, dark blue, purple, black, white, gray, beige, or wood.

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Friday, September 30, 2022

The Burrito

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

The Burrito

acrylic paint on canvas board

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202209055

To purchase for your home, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/249140537/burrito-original-acrylic-painting-8-x-10

Around 10,000 B.C., a corn tortilla food wrap became a common dinner in Mesoamerica. For thousands of years and countless generations, the recipe was passed on and evolved. The Pueblo Native American of southwestern United States and northern Mexico ate it as a staple meal. Cowboys roaming California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, and Guanajuato found it to be an easy meal to eat while rounding up cattle. There's a couple legends where the name "burrito" came from. One says it's because a street vendor in Ciudad Juárez named Juan Méndez sold the meal while riding a donkey. Another claims it came from a term of endearment used by a man selling lunches to poor school children. Today, the burrito is served in an infinite amount of restaurants in a myriad of varieties. Yet another example of how food shows we have more in common than we have in differences.

Alrededor de 10.000 aC, una envoltura de tortilla de maíz se convirtió en una cena común en Mesoamérica. Durante miles de años e innumerables generaciones, la receta se transmitió y evolucionó. El pueblo nativo americano del suroeste de los Estados Unidos y el norte de México lo comió como una comida básica. Los vaqueros que vagaban por California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Nuevo México, Colorado, Texas y Guanajuato consideraron que era una comida fácil de comer mientras redondeaban el ganado. Hay un par de leyendas de donde vino el nombre "burrito". Uno dice que es porque un vendedor ambulante en Ciudad Juárez llamado Juan Méndez vendió la comida mientras montaba un burro. Otro afirma que proviene de un término de cariño usado por un hombre que vende almuerzos a niños de escuelas pobres. Hoy en día, el burrito se sirve en una cantidad infinita de restaurantes en una gran variedad de variedades. Otro ejemplo más de cómo la comida muestra que tenemos más en común que diferencias.

This piece would work best is a small-to-medium space that is orange, green, blue, purple, black, white, grey, or light wood.

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Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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Monday, July 25, 2022

Decisions of Destiny

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Decisions of Destiny #476

pen and ink on Bristol paper

2.5" x 3.5" (6.35 cm x 8.89 cm)
202207029

To purchase for your collection, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/743213611/decisions-of-destiny-476-artist-trading

This artist trading card or ACEO (Art Card Editions and Originals) is frameable, collectible, enjoyable and can be given as a special gift for a birthday, wedding, new baby, anniversary, thank you or other occasion. It is a one-of-a-kind original work of art, NOT A PRINT OR REPRODUCTION. It is signed on the back and lends itself to framing in a standard trading card frame or book.

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Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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Friday, July 22, 2022

Jackson Glacier Overlook, Glacier National Park⁩, ⁨Montana⁩

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Jackson Glacier Overlook, Glacier National Park⁩, ⁨Montana⁩

acrylic paint on canvas board

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)

202207028

To purchase for your home, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/209826732/jackson-overlook-glacier-national-park

Places and moments can be very special. There's a sense of awe. Something that pulls you away from your mundane routine and gives you peace of mind. More importantly, this is true of our relationships with people too. To know that we're loved, supported, and have a place in this world. We have a lot to be grateful for.

Who is special to you? Why are you happy to know them? What have you done to express that appreciation? It's never too late to let them know.

Let's start being kinder to others and ourselves with the Kindness Challenge at: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10226362752710855&set=gm.413610220786953

Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Glacier National Park⁩, ⁨Polebridge⁩, ⁨Montana⁩

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Glacier National Park⁩, ⁨Polebridge⁩, ⁨Montana⁩

acrylic paint on canvas

24" x 48" (61.0 cm x 121.9 cm)

202203011

For image, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1259727813

Commission: https://www.etsy.com/listing/186507940

Who is special to you? Why are you happy to know them? What have you done to express that appreciation? It's never too late to let them know.

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Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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Friday, June 17, 2022

This Land Is...

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

This Land Is...

acrylic paint on canvas board

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202206020

Find Understanding

We've all hurt people. And that hurts us. After causing that pain, it is our duty to correct that wrong. Our ego must not get in the way. Ignoring and rationalizing only hides our fear that we are weak. True strength comes from humility, kindness, and admitting our mistakes.

1) Express Regret: Talk directly with those you've wronged by expressly stating what you did. For example: "I'm sorry that I (wrongful action). It was not my intention to hurt you."

2) Very Short Explanation: Without excuses, let them know why the incident occurred in 1-2 sentences. For example: "I did (wrongful action) from thoughtless habit; not to attack you."

3) Take Responsibility: Say "I was wrong," "It's was my mistake," or other appropriate variation.

4) Offer Remorse: Let them know explicitly this will not happen again. For example: "I will not do (wrongful action) again because I don't want to cause you pain."

5) Fix or Compensate Error: If you broke something; replace it. If you took something; give it back (in better condition than you found it). Was it something emotional or unable to be restored? Find a way to make amends that is equal to or greater than the misdeed.

6) Ask To Be Forgiven: Be straightforward and say "Will you forgive me?"

Benefits:

1) Saying sorry makes it possible to have a good long term relationship with others.

2) You acknowledge bad behavior and can be trusted again

3) The victim gets their dignity returned.

4) It lets other know that you're still a good person who just made a mistake.

5) Reduces stress that impacts heart health.

This painting would look best in a space that is red, orange, yellow, light green, blue, purple, black, gray, beige. or wood.

Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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Friday, June 10, 2022

Los Angeles Alley

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Los Angeles Alley (Venice Beach)

acrylic paint on canvas board

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202206019

© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
To purchase for your home, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/246241892/los-angeles-alley-original-acrylic

Los Angeles is an attractive beacon of optimism. What started as a Spanish colony of 11 people has exploded into a population of 18.7 million people. The Chinese came to build the railroads, African Americans seeking better opportunities after World War II, Koreans to be entrepreneurial shopkeepers, Latinos who founded and built the city, along with countless other people from around the globe. Los Angeles' diversity and openness to the world has made it the 3rd largest metropolitan economy. Behind the thin veneer of glamour is the hard work of millions of good people.

This painting would look best in a space that is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, gray, beige. or wood

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Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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Friday, December 10, 2021

Los Angeles Alley

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Los Angeles Alley (Santa Monica)

acrylic paint on canvas board

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202112108

© copyright Mike Kraus
To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/246241892/los-angeles-alley-original-acrylic

This painting would look best in a space that is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, gray, beige. or wood

Having Fun During COVID-19

Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

For more information or custom order, please visit:

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Friday, September 10, 2021

The Burrito

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

The Burrito

acrylic paint on canvas board

202109078
5" x 7" (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm) 

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/249140537/the-burrito-original-acrylic-painting-5

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

NOW OPEN! Join us at the Online Awesome Autumn Art Show at: https://www.facebook.com/events/389327332607311 There will be arts, crafts, jewelry, furniture, fashion, and so much more. We'll have a few activities. And, most of all, HAVE FUN!

Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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