Diameter?

Posted on March 15, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Age, Diameter, formula, Fun, Maths, Memory, no calculator, pi, radius, Work it out2 Comments

How do you work out the radius of a satellite dish when all you know is its diameter? That was the strange question I tried to answer on twitter last night.

First of all I had to remember my school girl maths from fifty years ago.

I remembered the diameter if found with the formula 2 pi r. Where pi is 22/7. I couldn’t remember the decimal version and I wasn’t using a calculator so I divided 7 into 22 and got 3.142. Then r is the radius, which is half of 70=35.

So then I had to multiply (on paper again) 2 Xx 3.142= 6.284. And multiply that by 35. As my multiplication is not good I added 3 lots of 62.84 together = 188.52, then added 6.284 together five times = 31.41 (yes it’s long winded but accurate). Add the two figures together and you get 219.93.

I don’t know BODMAS or PODMAS or whatever they are called. But I actually got it right. Not to bad for an oldie!

PS the formula for area is pi r squared. Not going there!

Dragon illustrations

Posted on March 13, 2022March 13, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, bestiary, Dragons, Drawing, Fun, History, Life, Mythology, Prints, reportLeave a comment

Image from a book of beasts and monsters

For my final college report I’m looking at the history of the depictions of dragons (OK very niche). I’m trying to understand how they were illustrated and how they change across the world. I’ve found out Korean dragons have five toes, Chinese four or five and Japanese three toes. They have different shapes. They go from serpentine to with two or four legs. No wings or wings. Some are fire-breathing. They may be mythical but they seem to evolve.

Fishy

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital doodle, Digital drawing, Fish, Fun, Life, pisces, Playing, Sketching2 Comments

Well I had to play. Changed hues, used a blue flood fill. Made the fish shiny, made it glint. Art is fun, I can’t help myself. When I can’t do art I don’t know what I will do. Also I suppose it could represent pisces. I might do more…

Face

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Digital drawing, Face, Fun, Memory, Shaking, SketchingLeave a comment

Face, digital drawing from about four years ago. I used to do more of these but I’ve not felt as able to for a while because of my arm shaking. The lines I try and draw go too wobbly. This was drawn in ArtRage oils.

Stems abstract

Posted on March 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Fun, Garden, greening, Life, Playing, Poem, Poetry, SketchingLeave a comment

Waiting fot the green to grow

Looking for the water flow

Abstract colours

Leafy feeling

Are your colours

At all appealing?

Glossy green,

And deep blue

Lots of subtle colour

Hue.

Hello duck?

Posted on March 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bird, Duck, Fun, Goose, Life, Photo, Small lake, Spring, Walking, Westport lakeLeave a comment

A strange looking dusk with red on its head. We only saw one of them. I don’t know what kind it is but I think it must be a male one. If there ever was an ugly duckling could this be it? No I’d say an interesting one! Medium sized, pink footed, friendly!

Spring-filtered

Posted on March 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Filter, Fun, Hues, Photodirector, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Rhyme, Spring2 Comments

Oh you beauty

Colours split

Spring in a rainbow sits

Gaudy yellows

Proper reds

Generous greens

Flower heads

Blues and purples

Different hues

Oh what fun

When a filter is used!

Mural in Fenton Cafe

Posted on March 5, 2022July 6, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colourful, Design, Fenton Town Hall, Fine Art, Fun, Painting, pottery history3 Comments

Mural at Fenton Town Hall by an unknown artist. It is painted in tiny squares (like pixels) and based on a plate design of an oak tree, cottages and a tumble down fence. I’ve seen it before about two years ago. Now it’s much more complete. It’s a huge picture. Very interesting and beautiful.

I had been told by staff there that it had been painted by a particular artist. I’m afraid that was not true and I’m happy to set the matter straight and confirm it was not painted by her.

cat dragon

Posted on March 1, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged bat cat, Black and white cat, Cat, Dragon, dragon cat, Fun, Humour, mad idea, Tuxedo cat, WingsLeave a comment

used basic photoshop drawing tools to turn my cat into a dragon. She was stretched out on the bed this afternoon and the way she was lying was just right for this.Added some blue sky, and with that cute look it just worked, she could be twisting and turning in the air ready to land on the top branches of a tree, ready to furl her wings and sit and have a peaceful wash or she might be ready for mischeif? Whatever she does she will remain cat sized and gentle.

She could also be a bat cat, or a magpie cat. Genetically manipulated to be catwomans friend, you saw it here first!

Mirror mirror

Posted on February 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Face, Fun, Humour, Life, Mirror, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, SillyLeave a comment

Mirror mirror, on the wall

What do you see, the room at all?

Do you see the world around

Clearly see where you are bound?

Into night, away from day

Where your owner learns to play

Music on the piano.

Making every hour go

So when a face you finally show

The thought is there

A face so fair.

Mallaband-Brown

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