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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 22h

The “Fisher King” … When Inktober and Birdtober collide it becomes a Drawing Parade .. Cheers !! Sakura Micron on Fabriano HP Image 7 x 9 #drawingparade2026 #inktober #birdtober #sciart #birdart #traditionalart 🎨🪶🦉🐡

Northern Belted Kingfisher staring into the water below on a tree branch .. surrounded with maple leaves

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“King of the Woods” A lovely old tree and Pileated Woodpecker A little tuneup in B&W pointillism .. … With Inktober and Birdtober on the horizon 9 x 12 - Stonehenge - 250gsm Sakura Micron Pens #birdart #sciart #traditionalart 🐡🦉🪶🎨

Pileated Woodpecker with outstretched wings in flight passing the limbs of once proud but dying tree

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“The Stoic Stare” Great Gray Owl .. missed Owl Awareness Day Aug 4 .. but finishing up this piece with 2 more Owl commissions going on the easel this month 😊 Watercolor /Gouache on Fabriano HP Image 5” x 7” #birdart #sciart #audobonsociety #traditionalart🦉🪶🎨🐡

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

All matted up ( 8 ply Rising ) … frames next “Back Home” ( Wood Duck ) will be off to its new home in mid - August “The Sentinel” - will be available in the gallery in mid - August …framing and showing done by @ Caplow Frame & Restoration - Minneapolis MN #birdart #sciart #traditionalart 🪶🦉🐡🎨

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Heavenly Gaze” - Downy Woodpecker Current weekend wip .. Emotions such as grief and joy are found throughout nature … this Downy rests upon the fallen mighty oak .. gazing up at what once was .. Image 7” x 4” Watercolor / Gouache Fabriano Cold Press #sciart #birdart #traditionalart 🪶🎨🦉🐡

Downy Woodpecker gazing up to the heavens while standing upon a fallen oak tree ..

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

“The Watchtower” Cardinal / Pussy Willow Watercolor / Gouache Fabriano HP #sciart #birdart #traditionalart 🐡🦉🪶🎨

Male Northern Cardinal perched on a Pussy Willow branch

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

“Back Home” Latest Commission off the easel .. Man and Nature interact .. farm created .. spring fed pond in the valley off the hills of southern Minnesota .. stocked with trout and accompanied by 2 wood duck houses. Watercolor / Gouache Fabriano HP 16” x 7” #birdart #sciart #traditionalart 🐡🦉🪶🎨

Male Wood Duck flying back into the pond .. surrounded by spring greenery .. along the shoreline trees , a wood duck house and a Jon boat .. representing man and nature working together .. in watercolor and gouache on hot press Fabriano paper

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“The Calling” .. Spring in wetlands is immersed in the sounds of returning migratory birds .. none more recognizable than the Red Winged Blackbird. Image 5”x 7” Watercolor /Gouache Fabriano HP #birdart #sciart #traditionalart 🐡🦉🎨

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

“The Calling” .. current wip Thinking spring.. Thinking spring after a ditch ride in last weeks blizzard .. all okay but car needs a little re-hab .. Watercolor / Gouache on Fabriano HP Image size 4” x 7” #birdart #sciart #traditionalart 🦉🪶🐡🎨

Redwing Blackbird calling .. upper torso ( median coverts ).. painted in watercolor / gouache

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

“Swag in the Hood” Hooded Merganser 8” x 7” Really enjoyed working in the “black” range on this one .. only used a bit of black on the pupil .. otherwise using combinations to pickup the veridian and purples .. def a learning work Watercolor / Gouache Fabriano Artistico HP #birdart #sciart 🦉🐡

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“Tranquility” Cygnet asleep 3” x 5” Graphite on Fabriano HP #birdart #sciart #traditionalart 🦉🪶🪶🐡

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Current wip .. “Flyte Tyme - Trumpeter Swan” ( with a nod to the Minneapolis Music Scene ) Trumpeter Swans were a constant companion over the Rat Root River ( Int’l Falls , MN ) last month before the freeze up Image - 8.5” x 5” Watercolor / Gouache / Polychromos #sciart #birdart #traditionalart 🦉🪶🐡

Trumpeter swan flying over a calm cattail covered waterway with a few background willows ahead of an impending front of changing weather with darker clouds on the horizon

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Wip update. . “Farewell To Summer Ruby Throated Hummingbird and Lupines Fabriano Artistico Arctic White HP Fabr-Castellated Graphite Pencils “Sold” #birdart #sciart #traditionalart 🪶🦉🐡

Ruby Throated Hummingbird in flight through a series of lupin flowers done in graphite pencils

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Current wip .. a bit of HB pencil work watching World Series .. Trying to hang onto Summer with baseball, lupines and a hummingbird 😊 #birdart #traditionalart #sciart 🦉🐡🪶

Hummingbird in flight over lupines done in HB graphite pencils

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Current wip … wrapping up details on the Baltimore Oriole piece for the Bakken Museum’s Gala… this piece will be in the auction for their fundraiser October 10th .. so important to give back so we can all move forward and inspire 💙 Watercolor / Gouache / Polychromos Fabriano Artistico HP

Baltimore Oriole momentarily perched on a branch beneath a canopy of maple leaves .. leaves done in colored pencil .. Oriole and branch painted in watercolor and gouache

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

“The Sentinel on 13“ Image size 13 x 9 Watercolor / Gouache on Fabriano HP Intensely Loyal and Remakably Intelligent, Crows and the Corvid Birds are amazingly social with lifelong companions .. This character is on watch for the rest of the flock 😉 #birdart #sciart #traditionalart 🐡🦉🪶

The crow on watch peering over the left shoulder perched on a post with the number 13 etched ito it with a bit of creeping charlie climbing the post .. background in shades of blue and purple with a moonrise to the right

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

… and so it begins Celebrating Birds Exhibition opens Friday May 9th in my first solo exhibition .. 15 pieces Bakken Museum Minneapolis, Minnesota #traditionalart #sciart #birdart 🐡🦉

Barn Swallow flying over farm fields .. Pileated Woodpecker scaling a moss covered tree trunk.

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

“Fly By” Barn Swallow Image size 10.5” x 12” Watercolor / Gouache Polychromos background Fabriano Artistico HP #traditionalart #birdart #sciart 🐡🦉

Soaring Barn Swallow over the farmlands of the Midwest ..

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

WIP .. work in progress this weekend for the May 9th opening of the show at the Bakken Museum … see you all there .. should look great in a Picture Woods Frame 😉 🐡🪶 #traditionalart

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Karen Cook Fine Art Photography 🇨🇦🍁 @karencookphotos.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today, more than ever, we need to fill the @bsky.app with this. What an appalling scene in the White House. #boycottUSA #slavaUkraini Zelensky is the hero and those other '2' are cowards and bullies. #Shameful

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“Lift Up Your Voice” Sandhill Crane Image Size 5.5” x 8” Watercolor / Gouache Fabriano HP #birdart #sciart #traditionalart 🐡🪶

Sandhill crane lifting its head to the sky in a call .. watercolor / gouache

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.

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Helena @book960.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Remember what the Bishop said

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Happy New Year !! Starting off 2025 with the White Breasted Nuthatch !! Image size 6” x 7” Watercolor / Gouache Fabriano HP #traditionalart #birdart #sciart 🪶🐡

Watercolor / gouache painting of a white breasted nuthatch hanging upside down on a birch tree branch surrounded by fall colored leaves .. image size 6” x 7”

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Pileated Woodpecker Commission Watercolor / Gouache Image size 7 x 10 Fabriano HP #traditionalart #birdart #sciart 🪶 🐡

Pileated Woodpecker scaling a moss cover oak tree

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“Hanging onto Summer” Goldfinch on Coneflower Commission 5” x 5” Watercolor / Gouache #birds #sciart 🐡🪶 #traditionalart

American Goldfinch perched on top of a pink coneflower with washed background

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Works on paper Matted Images roughly 5.5” x 6.5” Colored Pencil drawings

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Goldfinch on Thistle Matted Image Size 5.5” x 6.5” Colored Pencil Polychromos Super excited to be framing up the beginnings of my May 2025 show at the Bakken Museum with some drawings. “On a Wing and a Prayer” Works on Paper .. gonna be as busy as a chickadee. 😉 #birds #sciart 🪶 🐡 #traditionalart

Colored Pencil drawing of an American Goldfinch on the stem of a flowering thistle

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ruby Throated Hummingbird Painted this for the Bakken Museum Permanent Art Collection Image size 6” x 9” Fabriano HP 9” x 12” Watercolor / Gouache #birdart #sciart #painting 🪶🐡

Ruby Throated Hummingbird in flight descending on an open Tiger Lily with olive colored wash background.

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Red Bellied Woodpecker Bakken Miseum Collection Image size 6 x 8 Watercolor / Gouache Fabriano HP #art #SciArt #Bird #birdart 🪶🐡

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Just for fun .. “On / Off Monarch” Trying to turn off the Winter chill … Or trying to just unplug for a while 💙 Image size 6 x 8 Watercolor / Gouache / Colored Pencil #art #nature #wildlifeart #SciArt 🐡 #painting #justforfun

Monarch butterfly on the toggle of a light switch .. painted Monarch ..colored pencils for shadows

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Yellow Headed Blackbird This commission is Migrating North to Minnesota and the Bakken Museum Watercolor / Gouache on Fabiano HP Image size 8” x 6” #art #painting #birdart #fabriano #gouache #watercolor #addBirder 🪶 🐡 #SciArt

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Steve Krause @skrausearts.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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