Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty
🍁 Autumn-On the Hudson River #604 🍁
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
202512070
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.
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Standing at the curve of the road with the hum of traffic in my ears and the faint mineral smell of fuel drifting from the giant white tanks, I tried to imagine what Jasper Cropsey once saw from this very hillside when autumn wrapped the Hudson River in blazing reds and golds. His painting held a wandering stream and hunters pausing in a sunlit meadow while sheep grazed in soft quiet, but now the sky is laced with power lines and Storm King Mountain across the water glows only where the sun manages to slip between thick cables. Even so, in the flash of blue water beyond the fence and the burst of color in the trees by the roadside, there is still a whisper of that older world, a reminder that the river keeps outlasting whatever we build beside it.
Do you ever stand in a familiar place and try to picture what it looked like before people reshaped it?
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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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