flowers,mosses,close ups.and diary

  IN this page i hope to entertain those of you who get pleasure from flowers and garden creatures,as well as a diary of what i observe when getting the garden ready for this years visitors ,i would also like to welcome our friends from around the world who visit us from stumbleupon.com i have seen some stunning artwork there.i have many more pictures for you please call again soon.mike...ps i must say the reproduction of my work is second to none on blogspot,i will also feature some painting tuition as i will have a little more time soon that is why i have not been able to work on here,27 MARCH bottom left is a picture i took fri night i was testing a new lens set up i have just made to fit

on my camera,i used cardboard glue elastic bands to make it the lighting was electric,the flowers are real from my garden,but the brimstone which sometimes comes out in the February sunshine after hibernating all winter,has been painted with a brush on the computer,it is not a photograph that has been enhanced with a program,i start with a blank canvas draw the shape then paint it from colour swatches,you may for your own use copy,but my work is not to be reused,or for commercial purposes.bye mike...to view click the brimstone now larger click again scroll to see details..enjoy THE collarge left is of mixed flowers ,the wallflower ,bluebell ,under electric light with my home made set up,taken last year,NEXT a lucky ladybirds tale,PLEASE NOTE IT IS MY PLEASURE TO PRESENT,this work for you you may copy these pictures for you own use but

not for commercial or re use,please enjoy mike LEFT is a picture of lucky the ladybird so called as i fished him out of a barrel of water outside my greenhouse when i went to water this years foxgloves im growing early for the bees,he appeared to be dead so i thought i would take him into the house to take some close up pictures but he began to move again,so i put him on a plant and took these pictures.


the first picture in the collage is from guest artist Richard who emailed me to say that something strange had happened when he went into his garden out of nowhere three ladybird landed right next to him i have never seen that in all my years nature study ,it pays to be kind to the weak and to all living things,the north american Indian night.

A lifes work of a street painter.

Nearly all my life i have been painting pictures,i used to sell my work at craft fairs and shows,and take commissions there as well as wood carving ,many of the drawings you see in my work are done in situ that is outside i also used to have art classes each week with many students,i had a small cabin in the derbyshire hills that i used as a studio with an old stone barn as a gallery and workshop,very beautiful i also had many farm animals and a market garden,organic,i used to trade the vegetables for wood for the wood burner if you look round my various galleries you should find some pictures,I lived here for some ten years with a peaceful mind,and a very beautiful wife the main idea was to study nature,and be as self sufficient as i could be i made some good friends and the whole experience was worthwhile,i then moved into a local village where i am to this day i am now retired and cofortable as i have brought up three children to university standard so my workload is much less now and this is giving me time to consentrate on nature writing and blogging as well as adult teaching,

PEN AND INK WORK

mike here i hope you are going to like this pen and ink work i have not done any for nearly twenty years,owing to taking care of my family,these drawings are all of derbyshire,on board with rotoring pens,the i used to spend a great deal of my time around these beautiful places,with my escort estate,happy memories live here,

LORDS CUPOLA SMELTING MILL

This is the lords cupola smelting mill at Middleton dale derbyshire, the poor leadminers of the area used to rent it for a day to smelt their lead ore,below is the stoat and foxglove,

HI TOR MATLOCK BATH DERBYSHIRE

From an early age this has been one of my favorite places in our beautiful county,that being Derbyshire i have spent many happy hours here,one day i would love to go there again,who knows i may,

hi im micktheartist

hi and welcome to my world i have not been here for a while this certainly is a good blogsite,and look forward to meeting new worldwide friends here and we can share our love of nature now that i am retired as a street artist and my family is all grown up i have more time to dedicate to those who keep me company on these blogs and galleries,last month we recieved 36,000 hits from 48 countries pluss these on here,have you ever thought of learning to paint and draw but have been put of owing to the fact you think you cant,well i intend to try to change all that for you i would like to invite you to my teaching studio that will hand in hand work with this blog please visit us and let us know what you think just type in your browser learning-to-paint.com and join us