Showing posts with label niagara flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label niagara flowers. Show all posts

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Past Friday the 13th

We consider the "Friday the 13th" combination to be unlucky.  It is the day when motorcycles converge on Port Dover and the date of Goderich's  Harry Potter Festival.   There isn't any online coverage of these events, or of Friday the 13th happenings.  

What is readily available is the news in far away countries and I was attracted to zeenew.india.comwith headlines that included:
Indian Railways to introduce airline-like food, passengers may have to pay more
"In a bid to improve the quality of food served in trains, Indian Railways has decided to change its menu and is planning to copy the menu card of airlines. Read more

Passengers should be served vegetarian biryani, rajma chawal, hakka noodles, pulav, and laddo, the committee suggested."

Of course, here in Canada (and North America), airline food would be improved by copying railway food.  


Today's picture shows another experiment with the Fusion lily and liquid line textures.

Friday, October 6, 2017

Waifs and Strays Society

I saw a shadow on the wall and the shape made me think of a 'waif' - a child with dishevelled hair, big wide-open eyes and a heart-shaped chin. In the 1800's, homeless people and children were known as 'waifs and strays' - the definition has a few possibilities:
1. a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
2. something found, especially a stray animal, whose owner is not known.
3. a very thin, often small person, usually a young woman.
4. a stray item or article: to gather waifs of gossip.
5. Nautical. waft.

It likely is the Miserables poster that made the look so familiar.  And also Annie.  The start of waif look in modelling can be attributed to Twiggy in the 1960's. "Twiggy’s large doe eyes, long mascara-coated lashes and waif-like frame defined the era.  Her leggy androgynous look became the ideal mannequin for mod fashion and is still referenced today on the runway and in editorials."

So one might expect to see techniques for creating 'those huge eyes'.  Of course, Google has an answer for that question.  There are a few answers - varying between 8 and 11 ways to make your eyes look bigger.

Here's how.
  1. Define your brows. ... 
  2. Add dimension to your crease. ... 
  3. Add shimmer at the inner corner of the eye. ... 
  4. Use light, neutral colors on the lid. ... 
  5. Line the inner rim of the lower lid with a flesh-toned pencil. ... 
  6. Apply mascara to lower lashes. ... 
  7. Curl your eyelashes. ... 
  8. Apply mascara to top lashes.
  9. Apply false eyelashes