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Friday, January 12, 2024

Lavender Field

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Lavender Field

acrylic paint on canvas board

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

201910098

To purchase for your home, please visit: https://mikekrausart.etsy.com/listing/210496278

Let's make 2024 a beautiful year! Who do you want to be by 2025?

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

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Sunflowers and Lavender In Provence France

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Sunflowers and Lavender In Provence France

acrylic paint on canvas board

5" x 7" (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm)
201907059

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Let's make 2024 a beautiful year! What is it that you want to stay away from?

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

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Friday, August 18, 2023

Honeoye Lake

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Honeoye Lake

acrylic paint on canvas board

8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202308053

To purchase for your home or cottage, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/239115439/honeoye-lake-original-acrylic-painting-8

The shallow waters of Honeoye Lake felt warm for such a brisk morning. My rowboat lazily bobbing on the gentle waves. I watch the sun gradually rise in the sky only interrupted by the occasional perch, bass, or walleye tugging on the fishing line. At noon, I haul my boat ashore to fry my catch-of-the-day. If this isn't nice, what is?

How do you connect with nature? What did you enjoy doing outside during your youth? Do you still enjoy it and why?

This painting would look best in an average space that is red, yellow, orange, green, dark blue, white, black, grey, beige, or wood.

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Friday, July 21, 2023

Vitale Park at Conesus Lake

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Vitale Park at Conesus Lake

acrylic paint on canvas board

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

202307041

To purchase for your cottage, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/606927240/conesus-lake-original-acrylic-painting-8

We decided to make this a lazy weekday by skipping work. Then took a relaxed commute to the lake for a BBQ. On the menu is bass, which we caught earlier in the morning. While it grills, we talk about nothing in particular. All the concerns of the world disappear as the sun sinks into the hills. The sky radiates colors and reminds us to be grateful.

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Friday, February 10, 2023

Honeoye Lake

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Honeoye Lake

acrylic paint on canvas board

16" x 20" (40.6 cm x 50.8 cm)
201806084

To purchase for your home or cottage, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/622648587/honeoye-lake-original-acrylic-painting-8

The shallow waters of Honeoye Lake felt warm for such a brisk morning. My boat lazily bobbing on the gentle waves. I watch the sun gradually rise in the sky only interrupted by the occasional perch, bass, or walleye tugging on the fishing line. At noon, I haul my boat ashore to fry my catch-of-the-day. If this isn't nice, what is?

How do you connect with nature? What did you enjoy doing outside during your youth? Do you still enjoy it and why?

This painting would look best in an average space that is red, yellow, orange, green, dark blue, white, black, grey, beige, or wood.

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Friday, January 13, 2023

Lavender Farm

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Lavender Farm

acrylic paint on canvas board

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

201801021

© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
To purchase for your home, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/241431471/lavender-farm-original-acrylic-painting

This painting would look best in a space that is light red, yellow, orange, green, blue, deep purple, black, white, grey, 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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Monday, May 16, 2022

Sun Setting From the Hilltop

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Sun Setting From the Hilltop

acrylic paint on canvas board

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

201710103

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/551814492/original-acrylic-painting-sun-setting

Are there any reasons to buy reproductions? Of course! For example, when I moved out of my small apartment into my first house there were so many empty walls. And I'm an artist. I hung some of my work and filled in the rest of the void with reproductions because I was on a budget. But, over time, I've collected and made new pieces to replace tattered posters.

Let's say you love a piece and there's no way you can afford it. The Sistine Chapel inspires you, the Pope refuses to sell it to you, and Michelangelo is permanently retired from making art. A reproduction is your best option.

Temporary spaces demand temporary art. You know you won't be living in a college dorm next year. You're planning on looking for a new job and a cubicle isn't a safe place for valuables. Maybe you're just staging a house to sell. Whatever the reason, you're not going to be there long.

Valuables shouldn't be here. A factory floor with forklifts and other heavy equipment might not be the safest place for your investment. Maybe you plan on using the space as a kid's playroom full of markers, crayons, and toys that could be thrown at delicate objects? It could be that you smoke, the air is dirty, or constant high humidity in your basement. There's nothing wrong with posters in these situations.

Please visit: http://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/art-investing.html for some advice to consider in purchasing original artwork.

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, May 11, 2022

Lake Placid

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Lake Placid

acrylic paint on canvas

36" x 48" (91.4 cm x 121.9 cm)

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/229731686/lake-placid-original-acrylic-painting-36

We've been hiking all morning enjoying the foliage, which is at its peak. The colors seem to explode all around us in the fresh crisp air. The dried leaves crunch under our feet as we continue down the path. We come upon an overlook and a place to rest and snack. A region glows over Buck and Moose Islands all the way to Whiteface Mountain.

This painting would look best in a space that is dark red, light orange, purple, yellow, green, blue, purple, beige, black, white, 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, May 6, 2022

A View of the Blue Mountains of the Adirondacks

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

A View of the Blue Mountains of the Adirondacks

acrylic paint on canvas

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

202205015

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/235352250/blue-mountains-of-the-adirondacks

It's a steep and treacherous hike up the mountain in the Adirondacks. A wild region full of deer, herons, and chipmunks. You may even find a moose, coyote, or black bear on these trails. The dense pine forest opens up to a meadow full of brisk winter air. There is a startling calmness. And from this view, it's as if we can see all six million acres of this park.

This painting would look best in a space that is red, orange, purple, yellow, green, light blue, beige, grey, 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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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Canandaigua Lake

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

Canandaigua Lake

acrylic paint on canvas

36" x 48" (91.4 cm x 121.9 cm)

201708083

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/247433935/canandaigua-lake-original-acrylic

Why Invest In Original Art? A great way to add your personality to a room is by decorating the walls with artwork. Big box stores offer a lot of cheap options with prints, posters, and other mass produced options. But, they lose their value immediately and rarely earn more than a few bucks years later in a garage sale. So, if you're trying to freshen up a tired space, redecorating, or a new home-owner, you may want to consider investing in original artwork.

Can you tell me what "original art" is? "Original art" is an unique one of a kind piece, like Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night painting hanging in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. A "reproduction" is a photographic copy of the painting that has it's image placed on posters, mouse pads, coffee mugs, t-shirts, and anything else you can imagine. Somewhere between the two are "limited edition" prints made by photographers, screen printers, etchers, and other graphic artists that promise to limit the quantity of their copies usually to less than 200 replications.

Please visit: http://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/art-investing.html for some advice to consider in purchasing original artwork.

This painting would look best in a large space, over a fire place or couch. It would work best with the colors red, green, yellow, orange, dark blue, purple, black, white, 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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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

In Da Moonlight

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

In Da Moonlight

scratchboard

5" x 7" in a vintage frame (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm in a vintage frame)

To purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/184303792/in-da-moonlight-original-scratchboard-5

Nights are longer here. Only shadows dance in the moonlight of the old farm. Howls and secretive footsteps can be heard, but nothing seen, in the nearby fields. The darkness is honest away from civilization. Much like the people that live in this neck of the woods.

Is the night quiet or loud where you live? Some neighborhoods have lots of traffic and sirens. Others are only populated by nocturnal animals sneaking around. Either way, what is the moon like where you are?

This piece would work in almost any small space that is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, 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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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

An Extraordinary Transformation

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

An Extraordinary Transformation

acrylic paint on canvas board

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

202112105

For more information, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/186507940/custom-commission-original-artwork-by

Places are special because of the experiences we've created. What place is important to you? And what makes that place unique to you?

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, November 5, 2021

William Rainey Harper Memorial Library at The University of Chicago (UChicago)

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

William Rainey Harper Memorial Library at The University of Chicago (UChicago)

acrylic paint on canvas board

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

202110091

To purchase, please visit: https://society6.com/product/william-rainey-harper-memorial-library-at-the-university-of-chicago-uofc-by-mike-kraus_framed-print?sku=s6-22306712p21a12v65a13v54 or the image at: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1100965340/william-rainey-harper-memorial-library

We'd meet here in the morning before class. The morning sun beaming as we'd prepare to study. Learning more about each other than our scholarly topics. Architecture like this is designed to make you believe in truth and things greater than ourselves. We see that the possibilities are endless.

This piece would look best in a space that is dark red, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, grey, 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.

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