Happily High; Highly Happy

 

To purchase for your wardrobe, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1429342632

Looking forward to lazy summer daze?  Start a ritual by breaking the ritual of waking up to an alarm clock.  Whenever that is, walk to a peaceful and secluded spot near your home.  It could be a park, wilderness, or a small river.  Sit comfortably and enjoy the coffee, light breakfast, and smoke what you brought with you.  Close your eyes, count your slow breathes, and think of all the small things you are grateful for today.

To purchase for your wardrobe, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1441722440

The pandemic turned my life upside down.  And the darkest moment was losing my dad during Christmas 2020.  It changed my priorities as I realized that now is always the time to work for my dreams.  My three sons should not continue suffering a life living paycheck-to-paycheck.  Today, I'm going back to school for psychology and creating styles for you and your home.

For more designer styles, please visit: 

VR420Creations.etsy.com

Hipster Fish

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty 

Hipster Fish #367

gouache paint on Bristol paper

2.5" x 3.5" (6.35 cm x 8.89 cm) 

NOT A PRINT OR REPRODUCTION

202005035

© copyright Mike Kraus

to purchase, please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/235600352/hipster-fish-367-artist-trading-cards-25

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.

Tips For Working At Home

General: 

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/03/tips-for-working-at-home.html

Virtual Office: 

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/03/tips-for-working-at-home-staging-your.html

Virtual Backgrounds: 

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/04/virtual-backgrounds-for-zoom-and.html

Mental Health and Making a Routine: 

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/04/tips-for-working-at-home-mental-health.html

Your Work Space: 

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/04/tips-for-working-at-home-your-work-space.html

Setting Office Hours: 

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/04/tips-for-working-at-home-setting-office.html

Take A Break:

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/04/tips-for-working-at-home-take-break.html

Teaching Your Kids While You Work

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/05/tips-for-working-at-home-teaching-your.html

Perks of Being At Home

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/05/tips-for-working-at-home-perks-of-being.html

Learning and Adjusting To Technology

https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2020/05/tips-for-working-at-home-learning-and.html

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 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

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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mkraus

Funny Fish

Funny Fish, 2014

Acrylic on canvas

18" x 24" (45.7 cm x 60.7 cm)

Collection Dick and Marianne Bell

© copyright Mike Kraus

Please visit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/186507940/custom-commission-original-art-by-mike

Funny Fish will decorate a bedroom of a new home in Naples, Florida.  For more information or custom order, please visit:

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

 Breakfast at Fish-any's

Gone Fishin'

 Time To Hit the Links

 Who's Ya Callin' a Clown, Fish?

"We'd Be On the Boat and Do the Thing."

Last night may have been my last full day in Muskegon for a while. I may be back next weekend. I may not. I don't know. So, I had an impromptu (sp?) going away party. How unplanned was this going away party? Not even the people who live in Turtle House knew it was my going away party until at least half way through. The pictures tell the story of the evening.... For the most part.

Don't cry Tania. I'll be back in Muskegon soon. And Chicago is a fun place to visit.

Look at those luscious sideburns. Damn baby, no wonder the Rambone sleeps with you at night.

Pondering what Muskegon is going to be without Mike Kraus? Who will go to the Vous with you? Who will mom talk art to? Oh, the worries...

I am the drunkest looking sober man I have ever seen.

Nice. You wonder why I call you The Terrorist. The CIA knows what he is talking about.

Andrea and Leslie smoking and drinking.

Guns, beer, and cigarettes. Sounds like a good evening. Now, what can you do in the back seat of a Rivera in the Turtle House driveway. Oh, I remember... 4-eva...

What are you telling Ana-Shea, Nick? It looks like you are picking up some strange woman off the streets of Chicago and she's not having it. Story of my life...

Best friends Forever. This picture is the last piece of Hasan's going away birthday present. The girls got him a picture frame and this pic is what's going in it.

I'm going to miss you all. At the beginning of summer, I was a miserable mess. Yet, somehow it ended up being one of the best times of my life. I've had so much fun, learned a lot about myself, learned a lot about my friends, and love you all. When I move to Chicago, I expect each and everyone of you to come down and sleep on my couch. I will post my phone number and mailing address once I know what it is. I might be out of communication for a while. Don't worry, I'm just a nomad.

Today, I have a job interview at the American Red Cross. I'm just going to go in and be an arrogant jerk. I know I'm not going to work there. They can't match the job offer I got. But, I might make a friend there and be able to leverage something at a later date. After that, I will pack up the little electric car and drive down to Mike Nummerdor's place. We might go see some grizzly bear movie and drinking. I'm really glad that when I move to Chicago this time I am going to have some really good friends there to hang out with.

Don't forget me Muskegon, I love you all...

Mike Kraus