With so many paintings of Ireland’s coastline it would be wrong not to include something local. This is Dodd’s Rock, looking towards Courtown.

The Local

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A view from the shade of the trees on Stephen’s Green. I don’t often paint buildings, or even straight lines for that matter. But this whole this is about experimenting, so I even used a ruler for this one.

Stephen’s Green

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The countdown has begun, only ten paintings left to go. Its not long now until The ART Approach goes the way of the space shuttle. I won’t hold it against you if you didn’t realise this was a space shuttle, I’ve never been one to let realism get in the way of a nice stroke of paint.

Countdown

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If you have any interest in sci-fi you’re bound to have come across nanobots at some point: swarms of tiny machines that are invisible individually but come together in huge clouds to take on the shape of various objects or people. Sci-fi has predicted them for decades, and science edges closer and closer to catching up…but nature got there a long time ago. Inside our bodies are motors, pumps, springs, and levers made of just a handful of atoms. There are things that walk, climb, and swim around our bodies building and maintaining them. These are dwarfed by the huge factories that create them: the 10000000000000 or so cells in the average human body. We are the original nanobots.

The Original Nanobots

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If you keep seeing the same patterns appearing no matter how close you look at something, then it’s fractal. Like mountains, which look a lot like the rocks they’re covered in. Or trees, where each branch looks like a smaller tree with lots of even smaller trees sticking out of it, and even the leaves have their own tree pattern. Or a lake-shore, where the water finds smaller and smaller gaps to flow into, right down to microscopic cracks that look like giant valley’s if you look close enough. Fractals have some interesting properties, like having somewhere between 2 and 3 dimensions, or having infinite length and zero area.

Fractal Nature

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White is very fashionable these days. Tip: it gets a lot more interesting if you run it through a shower of rain.

White

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Have you ever seen a an arrow flying in slow motion? They accelerate so fast that they are compressed and then spring back as if they are swimming. If they didn’t bend like this, they wouldn’t be able to go in a straight line.