Wednesday, February 18, 2026

🌊🍷 Would you enjoy waking up to this view every morning? 🍷🌊

 Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


There is something about Canandaigua Lake that slows everything down in the best possible way. The gentle light across the water, the quiet strength of the shoreline, the feeling that you can finally exhale and stay awhile. I created this piece to bring that same calm and clarity into your space so you can experience that steady sense of balance every single day. When life feels full and fast, this becomes your reminder to pause, breathe deeply, and reconnect with what matters most.

You do not need to travel hours to return to that peaceful shoreline. You can welcome it into your home and let it soften the edges of your day. If you have been craving a space that feels lighter, more grounded, and quietly inspiring, this is your invitation to claim it. 

Are you ready to bring the serenity of the lake into your everyday life?

🌊🍷 Vineyard On Canandaigua Lake 🍷🌊
Museum-quality posters made on thick matte paper
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Monday, February 16, 2026

🌊🍁 What if your home could feel like standing beside a waterfall? 🍁🌊

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty



I remember standing at Pixley Falls State Park in the height of autumn, surrounded by trees that felt almost unreal in their intensity. The oranges and golds were bold and alive, yet the steady rush of the waterfall brought everything back to center. I felt both energized and grounded at the same time, like the world could be vibrant without being overwhelming.

That is the feeling I return to when life feels noisy or rushed. The scene reminds me that strength can be calm and color can coexist with stillness. 

If your days feel full and fast, where could you create a space that brings you back to that kind of balance?

🌊🍁 Pixley Falls 🍁🌊
acrylic paint on canvas board
8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202110092
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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This painting would look best in a small-to-medium space that is dark red, dark orange, light yellow, green, blue. purple, black, white, beige, or wood.


I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Friday, February 13, 2026

🌳 What If a Little Blue Calm Could Change Your Weekend? 🌳

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


I rise in a burst of cool blue and bright green, a calm presence against the heat of the world around me. When you draw near, I soften the noise that clings to your thoughts and smooth the tension that gathers in your chest. I help conversations unfold without sharpness, turning irritation into patience and distance into easy connection. My energy settles over you like a steady tide, quieting the rush and guiding you back to yourself.

Spend a little time with me and feel how I gently shift the atmosphere. I invite you to breathe deeper, to laugh more freely, to let go of the small frictions that follow you through the week. What I offer is simple but powerful, a sense of balance that lingers long after the moment passes. 

Would you let me be part of your plan for a truly relaxing weekend?

🌳 Blue Dream Flower 🌳
acrylic paint on canvas board
8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202104007
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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This painting would look best in a space that is orange, yellow, dark green, blue, purple, black, white, grey, beige, or wood.


I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

🧊☃️🌞 Is now the time for ice to melt? 🌞☃️🧊

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


I stepped into the winter woods expecting quiet and cold, but instead I felt a warmth waiting for me, glowing low and steady behind the bare trees like a held breath. The snow softened my footsteps, the branches reached upward in patient lines, and that deep red light pulsed at the center of it all, a reminder that even in the starkest season something alive is still burning. Standing there, I felt my worries thin out, as if winter wasn’t an ending but a place where strength learns how to glow from within. A warmth I knew I would want to return to, again and again. 

What part of yourself is quietly keeping its warmth, even now?

🧊☃️🌞 Warmth That Remains 🌞☃️🧊
Museum-quality posters made on thick matte paper
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Monday, February 9, 2026

💜 Can you smell the lavender? 💜

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty 


Our bikes race up and down the gentle hills of Provence. Everything has a distinct texture, the colors are vibrant, and the perfume in the air is intoxicating. Every twisting road reveals new rows of lavender stretching endlessly under the sun. I will never forget the fields of France.

This little painting is small, simple, and easy to bring into your life. It fits in almost any room and ships securely to your door, ready to brighten your space. No stress and no extra steps. Just color and memory waiting for you.

Art is more than something pretty on a wall. It carries feelings, memories, and a little bit of hope. If this piece speaks to you, it may be because it already belongs with you.

💜 Lavender In Provence 💜
acrylic paint on canvas board
8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202106047
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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This painting would great in a small-to-medium space that is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, dark purple, black, white, gray, beige, or wood.


I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Friday, February 6, 2026

🍎 What do you wish an apple a day would actually keep away? 🍎

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


The weekend before my birthday has a rhythm I look forward to all year. My wife and I drive out to the orchards near our home in upstate New York, past the loud ones with rides and crowds and toward the quieter places that simply grow apples. We walk slowly, breathing in the cool air, choosing fruit with our hands instead of our phones, already talking about what we will bake and who we might share it with. It is an easy pleasure, familiar and grounding, a reminder that some of the best moments come from simple choices made together.

Back home the apples turn into pies, cakes, and small gifts wrapped in foil and passed across kitchen counters. The house smells better, the days feel fuller, and for a little while everything slows down enough to enjoy what is right in front of us. 

In a world that asks so much, what would it feel like to keep something this honest and this good close at hand?

🍎 Honeycrisp Apple 🍎
acrylic paint on canvas board
8" x 10" (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm)
202104024
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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This painting would look best in a space that is red, yellow, orange, blue, purple, black, white, grey, beige, or wood


I’m Mike Kraus, a lifelong artist who believes color, movement, and curiosity can quietly change how a space and a day feel. More about me at: https://mikekraus.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

🏢 When a Town Changes, What Stays With Us? 🏢

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


This drawing holds a chapter of Muskegon history that many people remember in their bones. The Russell Block and the Century Club stood through the 1970s transformation when Western Avenue was roofed over to become the Muskegon Mall and surrounding blocks were cleared for parking. What had once been an open street of storefronts and daily movement turned inward and dimmer. When the mall eventually closed in the 2000s, the city began the slow work of uncovering the street again, restoring light, walkability, housing, and the older rhythm of downtown life. These buildings endured all of it, quietly waiting for the street to breathe again.

Drawing this scene was a way to honor that patience and resilience. It is not just nostalgia for how things used to look, but respect for how places adapt and survive while holding memory. For those who grew up here, passed through on a Great Lakes cruise, or moved away and still feel a tug toward Muskegon, these facades carry stories of loss, renewal, and return. 

When you think about this street, which version of it lives most clearly in your memory?

🏢 Western Avenue In Muskegon, Michigan 🏢
Museum-quality posters made on thick matte paper
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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