Steve Krause
@skrausearts.bsky.social
Artist / Sales Management
Madison,, WI
Madison,, WI
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
🦉🪶🐡
( 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
🦉🪶🐡
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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
🦉🪶🐡
( 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
🦉🪶🐡
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 and Lupines
Fabriano Artistico Arctic White HP
Fabr-Castellated Graphite Pencils
“Sold”
#birdart #sciart #traditionalart
🪶🦉🐡
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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 and Lupines
Fabriano Artistico Arctic White HP
Fabr-Castellated Graphite Pencils
“Sold”
#birdart #sciart #traditionalart
🪶🦉🐡
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
🦉🐡🪶
#birdart #traditionalart #sciart
🦉🐡🪶
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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
🦉🐡🪶
#birdart #traditionalart #sciart
🦉🐡🪶
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
Watercolor / Gouache / Polychromos
Fabriano Artistico HP
August 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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
Watercolor / Gouache / Polychromos
Fabriano Artistico HP
“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
🐡🦉🪶
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
🐡🦉🪶
July 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“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
🐡🦉🪶
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
🐡🦉🪶
… 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
🐡🦉
Celebrating Birds Exhibition opens Friday May 9th in my first solo exhibition .. 15 pieces
Bakken Museum
Minneapolis, Minnesota
#traditionalart #sciart #birdart
🐡🦉
May 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
… 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
🐡🦉
Celebrating Birds Exhibition opens Friday May 9th in my first solo exhibition .. 15 pieces
Bakken Museum
Minneapolis, Minnesota
#traditionalart #sciart #birdart
🐡🦉
“Fly By”
Barn Swallow
Image size 10.5” x 12”
Watercolor / Gouache
Polychromos background
Fabriano Artistico HP
#traditionalart #birdart #sciart
🐡🦉
Barn Swallow
Image size 10.5” x 12”
Watercolor / Gouache
Polychromos background
Fabriano Artistico HP
#traditionalart #birdart #sciart
🐡🦉
May 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“Fly By”
Barn Swallow
Image size 10.5” x 12”
Watercolor / Gouache
Polychromos background
Fabriano Artistico HP
#traditionalart #birdart #sciart
🐡🦉
Barn Swallow
Image size 10.5” x 12”
Watercolor / Gouache
Polychromos background
Fabriano Artistico HP
#traditionalart #birdart #sciart
🐡🦉
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
🐡🪶 #traditionalart
March 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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
🐡🪶 #traditionalart
Reposted by Steve Krause
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
February 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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
“Lift Up Your Voice”
Sandhill Crane
Image Size 5.5” x 8”
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
#birdart #sciart #traditionalart
🐡🪶
Sandhill Crane
Image Size 5.5” x 8”
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
#birdart #sciart #traditionalart
🐡🪶
February 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Lift Up Your Voice”
Sandhill Crane
Image Size 5.5” x 8”
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
#birdart #sciart #traditionalart
🐡🪶
Sandhill Crane
Image Size 5.5” x 8”
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
#birdart #sciart #traditionalart
🐡🪶
Reposted by Steve Krause
Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.
February 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.
Reposted by Steve Krause
Peregrine Falcon on a rock
Watercolor and colored pencil on board
12.2″ x 11.4″ (31 x 29 cm)
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#wildlifeart #animalart #wildlifepainting #animalpainting #realisticart #animalillustration #wildlifeillustration #traditionalanimalart #naturalhistoryart #birdart
Watercolor and colored pencil on board
12.2″ x 11.4″ (31 x 29 cm)
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#wildlifeart #animalart #wildlifepainting #animalpainting #realisticart #animalillustration #wildlifeillustration #traditionalanimalart #naturalhistoryart #birdart
February 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Peregrine Falcon on a rock
Watercolor and colored pencil on board
12.2″ x 11.4″ (31 x 29 cm)
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#wildlifeart #animalart #wildlifepainting #animalpainting #realisticart #animalillustration #wildlifeillustration #traditionalanimalart #naturalhistoryart #birdart
Watercolor and colored pencil on board
12.2″ x 11.4″ (31 x 29 cm)
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#wildlifeart #animalart #wildlifepainting #animalpainting #realisticart #animalillustration #wildlifeillustration #traditionalanimalart #naturalhistoryart #birdart
Reposted by Steve Krause
Reposted by Steve Krause
Reposted by Steve Krause
Remember what the Bishop said
January 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Remember what the Bishop said
Reposted by Steve Krause
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus). Photo © Enrique Shore
#birds #nature #birding #flying #birdphotography #naturelovers #wildlife #birdsinflight #beauty #chickadee #birdwatching #bird #dancingintheair #wings #feathers
#birds #nature #birding #flying #birdphotography #naturelovers #wildlife #birdsinflight #beauty #chickadee #birdwatching #bird #dancingintheair #wings #feathers
January 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus). Photo © Enrique Shore
#birds #nature #birding #flying #birdphotography #naturelovers #wildlife #birdsinflight #beauty #chickadee #birdwatching #bird #dancingintheair #wings #feathers
#birds #nature #birding #flying #birdphotography #naturelovers #wildlife #birdsinflight #beauty #chickadee #birdwatching #bird #dancingintheair #wings #feathers
Happy New Year !!
Starting off 2025 with the White Breasted Nuthatch !!
Image size 6” x 7”
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
#traditionalart #birdart #sciart
🪶🐡
Starting off 2025 with the White Breasted Nuthatch !!
Image size 6” x 7”
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
#traditionalart #birdart #sciart
🪶🐡
January 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Happy New Year !!
Starting off 2025 with the White Breasted Nuthatch !!
Image size 6” x 7”
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
#traditionalart #birdart #sciart
🪶🐡
Starting off 2025 with the White Breasted Nuthatch !!
Image size 6” x 7”
Watercolor / Gouache
Fabriano HP
#traditionalart #birdart #sciart
🪶🐡
Reposted by Steve Krause
Pileated Woodpecker
Commission
Watercolor / Gouache
Image size 7 x 10
Fabriano HP
#traditionalart #birdart
#sciart 🪶 🐡
Commission
Watercolor / Gouache
Image size 7 x 10
Fabriano HP
#traditionalart #birdart
#sciart 🪶 🐡
December 22, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Pileated Woodpecker
Commission
Watercolor / Gouache
Image size 7 x 10
Fabriano HP
#traditionalart #birdart
#sciart 🪶 🐡
Commission
Watercolor / Gouache
Image size 7 x 10
Fabriano HP
#traditionalart #birdart
#sciart 🪶 🐡
“Hanging onto Summer”
Goldfinch on Coneflower
Commission
5” x 5”
Watercolor / Gouache
#birds #sciart 🐡🪶
#traditionalart
Goldfinch on Coneflower
Commission
5” x 5”
Watercolor / Gouache
#birds #sciart 🐡🪶
#traditionalart
December 11, 2024 at 2:32 AM
“Hanging onto Summer”
Goldfinch on Coneflower
Commission
5” x 5”
Watercolor / Gouache
#birds #sciart 🐡🪶
#traditionalart
Goldfinch on Coneflower
Commission
5” x 5”
Watercolor / Gouache
#birds #sciart 🐡🪶
#traditionalart
Works on paper
Matted Images roughly 5.5” x 6.5”
Colored Pencil drawings
Matted Images roughly 5.5” x 6.5”
Colored Pencil drawings
December 7, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Works on paper
Matted Images roughly 5.5” x 6.5”
Colored Pencil drawings
Matted Images roughly 5.5” x 6.5”
Colored Pencil drawings
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
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
December 6, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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
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