Mike Kraus: pencil

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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Chicago Alley

Chicago Alley, 2015

acrylic on canvas

18" x 24"

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Portrait for Roman, 2015

pen, ink, and graphite

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

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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Mister Ed

Pencil on paper

4" x 6"

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Saturday, February 22, 2014

pen and colored pencils
© copyright Mike Kraus

I like to look at the back of buildings while riding the "L." The ugly mess of twisted wires, garbage, and feral strays can open up to something more beautiful. It reveals how the city works just as the facade hides it.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Where's Vern?

"Where's Vern", 2014

Colored pencil and ink

Katie and Vern are explorers from New York. They like to get dressed up and see all their friends in the city. So, the next time you are in the Big Apple, look for them in a crowd because they’ll be the life of the party.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

ROAR

Rachel and I got to spend some time together this weekend. There were a few rounds of Mario Kart on the Wii, Chinese for dinner, she taught me all about Movie Star Planet and Moshi Monster, as well as lots of drawing. It was a good play date.

Someone became shy suddenly...

Rachel's drawing of Katy Perry. My favorite part is her signature in the hairpiece. THANKS FOR HANGING OUT WITH ME RACHEL! I HAD A FUN TIME!!!

If she gets to show off her art skills, I will show off mine. This is a silkscreen of a factory in Muskegon, Michigan. It was part of a series I did in college. There are about 30 others that have ended up in many odd places. The majority are at my mom's house. She'll probably give them to you for fire wood at a good price.

These are sketches I did of people that rode the Brown Line train with me to work in Chicago. The torn off parts are where I wrote things like "get milk for dinner" and "PAY ELECTRIC BILL!"

Mini abstract landscape. Somewhere out there are some strange large paintings I did with super thick paint. This is a practice piece that is only a 6 x 8 inches. There was some painting I saw at the Art Institute of Chicago that I really liked and I tried using a similar technique. From a distance, it's suppose to look like the woods (not sure if I'm allowed to tell you that, but oh well).

Another painting of abstract woods in the fall. Kinda looks like the leftovers after a party...

Finally, please consider joining our family in the 2013 Walk to End Alzheimer's at Corn Hill in Rochester, NY on Saturday October 12th. For more information, please visit the site below:

http://act.alz.org/site/TR/Walk/NY-ROCHESTERampFINGERLAKESREGION?fr_id=3587&pg=entry

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Oh Deer...

Ice skating with Rachel. She's showing off her best figure skating pose.

Deer wandering at the way back of the property

Pretty good sized deer. And just look at how:
a) stubby his legs are
b) deep the snow is

MORE LOST ART FOUND!Who knows how much more of this stuff I have...

Obviously, I did not come up with the "Crazy" Tiger logo of the Detroit Tigers (why are his eyes perfect circles?). This banner was for some project. So, think of it as my version of Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup cans or something...

And, as everyone already knows, the holy war begins at home...

This is some kind of project with a bunch of figures from art history. I don't remember why I made it.

Punk Rock...

Front side of a clipboard

Back side of a clipboard.

That's about it from very snowy Rochester. Got to go shovel some more!

Thursday, December 27, 2012

A Man Could Get Use To This

Hope everyone had a great x-mas. Megan outside of our house. We got a bit of snow today...

A nice giant stocking on the front door. Another great Tops purchase!

Megan making some x-mas dinner stuff in her Harry Potter apron. Such a muggle...

Oh little Christmas tree. Some day you will be big and strong!

WHAT!!! REINDEER TRACKS WALKING UP OUR SIDEWALK TO OUR FRONT DOOR ON CHRISTMAS!!!

A little hike through Linear Park to check out the snow around Irondequoit Creek

Got about 10+ inches of snow last night. As I slept in late I got the best x-mas gift of all. The gift of someone else cleaning out my driveway. I have no idea who it is, but I'm super grateful

Exactly what the little Nissan needed...

Someone else's little yellow house with lots of snow on our way to the library this morning. Season 3 of Arrested Development for a snowy day

MORE ART!