🏞️ Does "home" still feels like peace to you? 🏞️

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

🏞️ Weybridge, Vermont and the Care of Its Land 🏞️

acrylic paint on canvas board

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

202511066

© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.

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Weybridge, Vermont, where the morning light still falls on fields that have been cared for by the same families for generations. Around here, we measure progress by what we choose to protect. Neighbors still gather at the farm stand, the forests still rise untouched on the hillsides, and the small roads still wind past barns that stand strong because our community believes beauty is worth keeping. We have watched elsewhere fill its open spaces with noise and speed, yet Vermont holds to a quieter promise.

We choose local before national, stewardship before sprawl, and a way of life that honors the land that raised us. This choice does not make us old fashioned. It makes us grounded. In Weybridge and across Vermont, we live close to what matters. The question is simple, yet powerful. What are you choosing to preserve in your own life and why does it matter? 

This piece would work best is a small-to-medium space that is red, orange, dark yellow, dark green, blue, purple, black, white, gray, or wood.

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My Story

Hi, I’m Mike the artist of Mike Kraus Art Inc.

I’ve been making art since I could hold a crayon. As a kid, I’d fill every notebook, homework margin, and scrap of paper with doodles. I sold my first artwork in junior high, sketching in class and handing off pieces between periods. That early love for making things never faded. I followed it all the way to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and eventually, I decided to stop treating art as a side hustle and make it my life’s work.

My paintings are full of energy, motion, and saturated color. I’m drawn to bold shapes and organic lines—forms that feel alive. I create with the hope that my work brings something beautiful and uplifting into someone’s day. Whether it’s a spark of joy, a moment of calm, or just a splash of color that makes you pause—I want my art to connect with something real.

Now, I’m lucky enough to paint full-time, with collectors across the U.S. and in dozens of countries around the world. But more than anything, I still feel like that kid with a crayon, excited to create. I’m grateful to share this journey with you—and I hope you find something in my work that makes your world a little brighter.

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Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

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Hi, I’m Mike the artist of Mike Kraus Art Inc.

I’ve been making art since I could hold a crayon. As a kid, I’d fill every notebook, homework margin, and scrap of paper with doodles. I sold my first artwork in junior high, sketching in class and handing off pieces between periods. That early love for making things never faded. I followed it all the way to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and eventually, I decided to stop treating art as a side hustle and make it my life’s work.

My paintings are full of energy, motion, and saturated color. I’m drawn to bold shapes and organic lines—forms that feel alive. I create with the hope that my work brings something beautiful and uplifting into someone’s day. Whether it’s a spark of joy, a moment of calm, or just a splash of color that makes you pause—I want my art to connect with something real.

Now, I’m lucky enough to paint full-time, with collectors across the U.S. and in dozens of countries around the world. But more than anything, I still feel like that kid with a crayon, excited to create. I’m grateful to share this journey with you—and I hope you find something in my work that makes your world a little brighter.

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🌊 What if the holidays looked a little more like paradise? 🌊

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

🌊 Santorini #603 🌊

pen, ink, and colored pencil on Bristol paper

2.5" x 3.5" (6.35 cm x 8.89 cm) 

NOT A PRINT OR REPRODUCTION

202512069

© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.

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From the moment I stepped onto the balcony in Órmos Athiniós and felt the warm breeze carrying a hint of salt, it was as if the whole world exhaled with me. The sky stretched out in every shade of blue I could name, meeting the sea so seamlessly that Nea Kameni looked like it was floating in a dream. I sat there longer than I meant to, letting the sunlight soak into my shoulders and listening to the soft echo of waves against the cliff below. The little white buildings nearby felt almost like quiet companions, each rooftop a tiny lookout where people paused just to take it all in. For a while nothing demanded my attention, nothing tugged at my mind, and I could simply breathe and watch the horizon shift.

Was there a place where the colors alone were enough to make you slow down?

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Hi, I’m Mike the artist of Mike Kraus Art Inc.

I’ve been making art since I could hold a crayon. As a kid, I’d fill every notebook, homework margin, and scrap of paper with doodles. I sold my first artwork in junior high, sketching in class and handing off pieces between periods. That early love for making things never faded. I followed it all the way to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and eventually, I decided to stop treating art as a side hustle and make it my life’s work.

My paintings are full of energy, motion, and saturated color. I’m drawn to bold shapes and organic lines—forms that feel alive. I create with the hope that my work brings something beautiful and uplifting into someone’s day. Whether it’s a spark of joy, a moment of calm, or just a splash of color that makes you pause—I want my art to connect with something real.

Now, I’m lucky enough to paint full-time, with collectors across the U.S. and in dozens of countries around the world. But more than anything, I still feel like that kid with a crayon, excited to create. I’m grateful to share this journey with you—and I hope you find something in my work that makes your world a little brighter.

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Store: http://MikeKrausArt.etsy.com

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👷‍♂️ Who is the backbone of America? 👷‍♂️

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty

👷‍♂️ Building America 👷‍♂️

Acrylic paint on canvas board

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

202511065

© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.

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Each morning I climb toward the sunrise with the same steady purpose that brought me here, carrying the faces of my family on my helmet and the hope that my work helps shape a home for them. The rhythm of lifting shingles and securing each nail feels small on its own, yet together these quiet labors become part of a larger story that hands have written across America. I think about how each roof I finish protects someone’s dreams and how every day spent building lifts me a little closer to my own.

When the light breaks across the sky, I cannot help but wonder what part of the United States we each choose to build with the work of our hands and the direction of our hearts?

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Hi, I’m Mike the artist of Mike Kraus Art Inc.

I’ve been making art since I could hold a crayon. As a kid, I’d fill every notebook, homework margin, and scrap of paper with doodles. I sold my first artwork in junior high, sketching in class and handing off pieces between periods. That early love for making things never faded. I followed it all the way to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and eventually, I decided to stop treating art as a side hustle and make it my life’s work.

My paintings are full of energy, motion, and saturated color. I’m drawn to bold shapes and organic lines—forms that feel alive. I create with the hope that my work brings something beautiful and uplifting into someone’s day. Whether it’s a spark of joy, a moment of calm, or just a splash of color that makes you pause—I want my art to connect with something real.

Now, I’m lucky enough to paint full-time, with collectors across the U.S. and in dozens of countries around the world. But more than anything, I still feel like that kid with a crayon, excited to create. I’m grateful to share this journey with you—and I hope you find something in my work that makes your world a little brighter.

For more information or custom order, please visit:

Store: http://MikeKrausArt.etsy.com

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/TheWayToBeauty

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

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mkraus

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mikekraus.bsky.social