Spirit of the Forest

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Spirit of the Forest

acrylic paint of canvas board

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
201805068

© copyright Mike Kraus

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/615155121/spirit-of-the-forest-original-acrylic

Please visit my show at:

540WMain
540 West Main Street
Rochester, NY 14608
(585) 420-8439
Open by appointment or according to class/event calendar available at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1001003383384929/

Michael 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 hundreds 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:

Store: MikeKrausArt.etsy.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MikeKrausArt

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Blue Spring Flowers

Brighscapes: The Way To Beauty

Blue Spring Flowers

acrylic paint of canvas board

5" x 7" (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm)
201805064

© copyright Mike Kraus

To purchase, please visit: https://society6.com/product/blue-spring-flowers1294146_framed-print?sku=s6-9125947p21a12v65a13v59

Please visit my show at:

540WMain
540 West Main Street
Rochester, NY 14608
(585) 420-8439
Open by appointment or according to class/event calendar available at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1001003383384929/

Michael 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 hundreds 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:

Store: MikeKrausArt.etsy.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MikeKrausArt

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/MikeKraus/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikekrausart

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mkraus

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MikeKrausBlog

Google+: http://plus.google.com/111168390406803022323/posts

Twilight Woods

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Twilight Woods #291

gouache paint on Bristol paper

2.5" x 3.5" (6.35 cm x 8.89 cm) 
NOT A PRINT OR REPRODUCTION

201805066

© copyright Mike Kraus

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/236003429/twilight-woods-290-artist-trading-cards

Please visit my show at:

540WMain
540 West Main Street
Rochester, NY 14608
(585) 420-8439
Open by appointment or according to class/event calendar available at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1001003383384929/

Michael 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 hundreds 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:

Store: MikeKrausArt.etsy.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MikeKrausArt

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/MikeKraus/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikekrausart

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mkraus

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MikeKrausBlog

Google+: http://plus.google.com/111168390406803022323/posts

Vineyard near La Seyne-sur-Mur, France

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Vineyard near La Seyne-sur-Mur, France

acrylic paint of canvas board

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
201805065

© copyright Mike Kraus

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/613167103/vineyard-near-la-seyne-sur-mur-france

Please visit my show at:

540WMain
540 West Main Street
Rochester, NY 14608
(585) 420-8439
Open by appointment or according to class/event calendar available at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1001003383384929/

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

Michael 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 hundreds 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:

Store: MikeKrausArt.etsy.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MikeKrausArt

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/MikeKraus/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikekrausart

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mkraus

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MikeKrausBlog

Google+: http://plus.google.com/111168390406803022323/posts

Bausch + Lomb Rotating Art Program

Bausch + Lomb's (http://www.bausch.com) Rochester Optics Center (1400 N Goodman Street Rochester NY 14607) is hosting my work as part of their Rotating Art Program.  This is a series of colorful landscapes both real and imagined that will be on display from now until March 2018.

Michael 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 hundreds 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:

Store: MikeKrausArt.etsy.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MikeKrausArt

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/MikeKraus/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikekrausart

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mkraus

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MikeKrausBlog

Google+: http://plus.google.com/111168390406803022323/posts

FREE #BRIGHTSCAPES art show eBook from Mike Kraus Art

Download your FREE copy of the official

Brightscapes art show book at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6835EG_Kn6PX3NaekJxVzNUT080VERuU2o2MTVTOXBhWGFN/view?usp=sharing

Please share with your friends and family too!

Lavender Farm In Provence France

Lavender Farm In Provence France #174

Gouache on Watercolor Paper

NOT A PRINT OR REPRODUCTION

2.5" x 3.5" (6.35 cm x 8.89 cm) 

© copyright Mike Kraus 

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/210012418/lavender-farm-in-provence-france-174

10% OFF with coupon code JOINTHEFUN

This artist trading card or ACEO (Art Card Editions & 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.

FREE SHIPPING IN THE UNITED STATES

For more information or custom order, please visit:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MikeKrausArt 

FINAL DAYS OF BRIGHTSCAPES!

Brightscapes Show on Display at Canandaigua National Bank

BRIGHTSCAPES Show Opens

BRIGHTSCAPE Show Opens

Mike Kraus' paintings now on view at Canandaigua National Bank

Rochester, NY – Canandaigua National Bank proudly features 23 new works of art by Mike Kraus.  The "BRIGHTSCAPES" show is currently open and will run through June 30th, 2016.  It's an exhibit of colorful landscapes both real and imaginative.  

Mike Kraus is a local artist known for his vibrant paintings of nature.  Originally from Muskegon, MI, he moved to Chicago to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, he's a full-time artist living in Rochester, NY with his wife, Megan Bell.  

Founded in 1887, Canandaigua National Bank and Trust is the region’s only locally owned, full-service community bank, with 24 branches in Ontario and Monroe counties, as well as Financial Services Centers located in Bushnell’s Basin and Geneva. Together they offer a full range of financial services for individuals, businesses, municipalities and not-for-profit organizations.

To view the paintings, please visit:

Canandaigua National Bank

Alexander Park Branch

210 Alexander Street

Rochester, NY 14607

585-568-8585

https://www.cnbank.com/

Mon-Thu: 9am - 5pm

Fri: 9am - 6pm

Sat: 9am - 1pm

Contact

To learn more, please contact

Mike Kraus, 

41 Woodside Dr

Penfield, NY 14526

773.241.4599

MikeKKraus@gmail.com

Etsy.com/shop/MikeKrausArt

'Merica: The Cookie.

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July.  Lots of hot dogs and blowing stuff up.  

New mascot.  nothing like a fake owl with 360 rotating head action.

I'm going to need that owl to protect my veggie garden.   My green beans are starting to grow quite nicely.

Grow little sprouts!

The watermelon is doing alright as well.  Just waiting on the carrots, onions, and brussels sprouts now.  With the monsoon hitting us, that should help unless they are washed away...

6x6x2014:

FINAL WEEK!

Megan and I went to check out the art at RoCo over the weekend.  Lots of great pieces by a bazillion artists from all over the world.  You should check it out because it's a lot of fun.  Can't make it in person, all the art is available to view online.  My pieces are:

#367 (SOLD)

#368

#369

#370

#371(SOLD)

#372

http://www.roco6x6.org/6x6x2014_intro.php

Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo)

137 East Avenue

Rochester, NY 14604

Birch Walk

Birch Walk, 2014

acrylic paint on canvas

6" x 8" in a 8" x 10" frame

© copyright Mike Kraus

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/191900116/birch-walk-original-acrylic-painting-6-x 

Is this the path I should take?  I'm a passionate person, but I'm also level-headed.  What should I do?  Is it sane to abandon stability for a dream?  Is it insane to waste your life doing something you hate?

This painting would great in a space that is light green, yellow, blue, navy, deep red, or gray.

For more information or custom order, please visit:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MikeKrausArt

6x6x2014 OPENS SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH at:

Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo)

137 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14604

See if you can find the pieces I've submitted.  For more information, please visit:

http://www.roco6x6.org/6x6x2014_intro.php

I'm In the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown!

Me and Albert Doubleday (possible inventor of baseball).  My wife and I went out to see an open house in Bushnell's Basin (just outside of Rochester) and then we passed the exit and I soon discovered she was kidnapping me.  After a few hours, I realized we were going to Cooperstown National Baseball Hall of Fame!



But, first things first...  We had to get a big burger at the little Cooperstown Diner: http://www.cooperstowndiner.com/


Doubleday Field, birthplace of baseball









Inside the stadium



The Tunnicliff Inn, where Megan and I stayed the night before heading to the Hall of Fame.



Good food at the Alex and Ika Restaurant: http://http://www.alexandika.com/



Apparently, Rachel Ray forces everyone to get the Fingerling Fries.  And for good reason...



OH MY GOD!   OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  It's the National Baseball Hall of Fame!!!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  OH MY GOD!  



Hello Mr. Doubleday.  



The House of David baseball team, which was an early religious baseball club near where I grew up in Michigan.



Charlie Sheen "Wild Thing" bobblehead!



Music inspired by baseball in Rochester



Babe Ruth's 60th homerun ball



Ty Cobb's sliding pads.  Unfortunately, I didn't see his cleats.  Those would be impressive



Jackie Robinson's uniform



Al Kaline's hat and George Kell's jersey



A League of Their Own.  Remember this from the end of the movie?  



Uniform from the Kalamazoo Lassies



Grand Rapids Chicks.  That sounds about right...  



Now this is a baseball uniform.  Megan also hopes that baseball brings back the "Hot Pants Patrol."



The Hickok Belt from Rochester, New York!  Essentially, this was the ESPY award from 1950
to 1976



Willie Mays memorabilia



Cal Ripkin's construction barrel uniform



It seems Roberto Clemente donated himself to the Hall of Fame...



Hey White Sox fans, I didn't forget about you.  You should recognize Ozzie Guillen's sweatshirt from the 2005 World Series



Manny Ramirez's batting helmet



Angel's uniform sombrero...



Pete Rose stuff.  Listen closely because you have to understand this.  Pete Rose is in the baseball museum.  This is not the Hall of Fame.  You will be reminded of this again...



The best display.  All my childhood heroes in one case.  Alan Trammell, Kirk Gibson, Sparky Anderson, Darrell Evans, Lou Whitaker.  



Kirk Gibson's batting helmet.  



Sparky Anderson's hat from the 1984 World Series when he became the first manager to win in both the American and National Leagues.



Rickey Henderson's cleats



This picture of Mark McGuire is in the museum to show that he did have a neck at one time....



Nate McLouth, from my hometown of Muskegon, wore this hat.


  
Detroit Tiger locker full of stuff



A detail of the locker



The White Sox locker



I know too many Cubs fans to leave them out.  Especially since I met a few of the players featured in this case...



Ty Cobb fan



Seats from the old Tiger Stadium



If you live in Milwaukee and don't know these guys, you don't really live in Milwaukee...



This is for my Uncle John.  One of the pinwheels from Comisky Park



Saved, but abandoned.  Very Detroit...



Program of the last game played at Tiger Stadium



The uniform Hank Aaron wore when he broke Babe Ruth's career baseball record (no * necessary)



Jack Morris' no-hitter ball



Red Sox fans should know what this is.  Curt Shilling's bloody sock!



Ty Cobb art 



Chicago's favorite Montreal Expo, Andre Dawson!



The Hall of Fame!  I took a lot of pics, but not nearly all of them.  Only about 1% of all Major League players make it into the Hall of Fame.



Hughie Jenning



Mickey Cochrane



Harry Edwin Heilmann



Hank Greenberg



Wahoo Sam



The apparently evil Henry Emmet Manush



Goose Goslin



I can't believe I'm putting a Yankee in my blog, but I do have his baseball card.  And, he is Mickey Mantle.  So...



Samuel Luther Thompson did more than grow an awesome mustache to get into the Hall of Fame



Ernie Banks



Willie Mays



Al Kaline!



What says "I'm a baseball fan" more than wearing a Detroit Red Wings hat to the Baseball Hall of Fame?  I didn't know I was going.  I thought we were going to look for a house!



Rickey Henderson



Cal Ripkin Jr.



I've seen Wade Boggs play more live games than any other player.  I've seen him play on all three teams and never been to Boston, to Yankee Stadium, or a game in Tampa Bay...



Ryne Sandberg.  This is for my former boss who met her biggest crush and has many photos to prove it.



Christy Mathewson.  As one guest pointed out, "that's a girls name!"



Babe Ruth



Ty Cobb



Honus Wagner



Walter Johnson



Sparky Anderson



Andre Dawson



This is for my mom.  It's Robert Redford's costume from The Natural



Rookie of the Year: The True Story of the Cubs Screwing Up So Bad In September That They Hired a Kid In the Stands Rather Than One of Their Prospects Who Doesn't Pan Out...



Never looked so good...  Oh Hall of Fame, does this have to be the end?



Such a nice little town in the middle of nowhere that must absolutely go crazy during the Hall of Fame Induction.  I wonder what baseball players have stayed in our room at the Tennison?  


And now, back to real life...

Only Tachel...  Now you can share this photo with your friend



This is Rogue.  He will kill you.  He will meow and then jump at your face.  Seemed to like my desk.  I guess he's cool with me...


That's more than enough for now.  Thanks to Megan for my 30 year, 4 month and one week birthday trip!  I loved it and love you!