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