Forgetting

Posted on May 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art lunch, forget-me-not, Forgetting, Forgot, Life, Memory, Mixed up, Next week, Time, TodayLeave a comment

I couldn’t find a photo of a forget-me-not so here’s a bluebell. I rushed out this afternoon for an Art Lunch session. I went and bought a couple of cakes and some sandwiches. Then I went to the venue. No one was there. We asked a volunteer but he knew nothing. Then we walked down to another building on the site, it was locked. I realised that a friend was at work on site so we went and asked her. It’s next week she said! I had got mixed up over the dates. I’m usually better than that. I hope it’s only a touch of nerves because I’m waiting fory MA result next week. X

My mind

Posted on April 29, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Life, Memory, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Thoughts, TimeLeave a comment

Links, complications, colours

Convoluted beginnings

And endings.

Thinking about life

Memories bubble out

Like air filtering

Through a spring

Expanding and bursting.

Lights spark on my minds surface

Like old popping flash bulbs

On a box brownie camera

Or captured as polaroids

Held in gel

An album of my thoughts.

Chocolate orange

Posted on April 23, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, chocolate orange, Closed, Drawing, Memory, Sketch, Sketchfu, Sketching, Time, WebsiteLeave a comment

Another Sketchfu drawing from the now closed site. This is a picture I drew from memory about ten years ago. I used to love eating these at Christmas. I think it was probably a challenge to draw something sweet. Strange how some things suddenly became fashionable but then lose their appeal again. I don’t think I would buy one now.

Marilyn

Posted on April 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Closed, Drawing, Fun, Life, Marilyn, Memory, Sketchfu, Sketching, WebsiteLeave a comment

Drawing I did at an old website called Sketchfu nine years ago. Sadly it closed down a few years ago. The tools were very simple, but that made it easy for artists to use. I was pleased how this digital sketch came out. If I find more drawings I will share them.

Onedin line

Posted on April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged adagio for Spartacus, Classical music, Memory, Music, Ocean, onedin line theme, Sea, StormLeave a comment

I just listened to the Adagio from Spartacus. I know it as the theme music to a 1970’s TV series called the Onedin line. My mother used to collect LPs (long playing records) of classical music, and sometimes we would sit and listen to them. The adagio rises and falls, the music swells before it calms like a settling sea.

I haven’t heard it for forty years so I was surprised at how upset it made me. I cried so much. Memories can have that effect. These were good memories of a long time ago. If you want to hear it go to YouTube. It’s worth it.

Tree sketches

Posted on March 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Facebook, Landscape, Memory, National Trust, Pencil on paper, Sketch, TreesLeave a comment

A few of trees I drew a couple of years ago. Pencil on paper. It’s nice to find these memories on Facebook. It reminds me of what I was doing then. I wish I was still going out and doing this. I think we had gone out to a National Trust property but have no idea where it was!

Remember blue and yellow

Posted on March 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged blue and yellow, Flowers, Gardening, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Russia, UkraineLeave a comment

I can’t change things

But I can remember

I can think

Help where I can.

I might be safe

But people from other countries

Are they going to survive?

Can they sleep at night?

Amidst the bombs.

Remember Blue and Yellow

Millifiore?

Posted on March 23, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Facebook, Fun, Memory, SketchingLeave a comment

Another old pattern, this was done in ArtRage oils and is another Facebook memory that popped up. I think this was done on another phone. I like seeing the way my mind was working a few years ago. More abstract and possibly more experimental than now!

Seven years ago

Posted on March 23, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, Memory, Seven years ago, Sketcher app, SketchingLeave a comment

Faces drawn in a nice app I used to use a few years ago. But I had to delete it because I don’t have enough memory on my phone. Maybe when I finally upgrade it I will reinstall it. I think it was called sketcher app. I think I still have it on another device but that’s not linked to the Internet very well so I have to mess about trying to link things. Maybe I should get more organised. I quite like this.

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!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Memory