ruse, gouache, subterfuge, in the dust, gin-blind. helter-skelter

Award-winning natural history illustrator and tutor Simon Williams shows us how to paint the flower spike from a bromeliad using layers of opaque gouache http://bit.ly/14Y2Ifw

How to paint a bromeliad in gouache

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[ARTWORK OF THE WEEK] Force and Ruse: Emerging from a vague universe of ink wash and gouache is a tormented drawing of raw beauty, representing the violence of a mythical coupling between a centaur and a woman. It is hard to distinguish whether what is depicted is the violence of an abduction or the fiery passion of a woman.

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How Apple's iPhone and Google's Android Left BlackBerry in the Dust
TIME
With the dramatic rise of Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices, it's easy to forget that just a few years ago BlackBerry was the premier smartphone on the market and a veritable status symbol. Regular people didn't have BlackBerrys, it seemed, ...

helter-skelter

 音節

hel • ter-skel • ter

発音

héltərskéltər

[副]あわてふためいて；でたらめに；乱雑に.

━━[名]

1 混とん, 乱雑；ろうばい.

2 ((英))（遊園地の）らせん形滑り台.

━━[形]あわてふためいた；乱雑な；でたらめな

in a helter-skelter fashion
あわてふためいて, 乱雑に.

ruse
:  a wily subterfuge

1. His act was just a clever ruse to get me to go out with him.

Origin of RUSE

French, from Old French, roundabout path taken by fleeing game, trickery, from reuser

First Known Use: 1625

in the dust

1. Far behind, as in a race or competition: a marketing strategy that left our competitors in the dust.

blind
adj., blind·er, blind·est.

1. 1. Sightless.
   2. Having a maximal visual acuity of the better eye, after correction by refractive lenses, of one-tenth normal vision or less (20/200 or less on the Snellen test).
   3. Of, relating to, or for sightless persons.
2. 1. Performed or made without the benefit of background information that might prejudice the outcome or result: blind taste tests used in marketing studies.
   2. Performed without preparation, experience, or knowledge: made a blind stab at answering the question.
   3. Performed by instruments and without the use of sight: blind navigation.
3. Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand: blind to a lover's faults.
4. Not based on reason or evidence; unquestioning: put blind faith in their leaders.
5. Slang. Drunk.
6. Lacking reason or purpose: blind fate; blind choice.
7. 1. Difficult to comprehend or see; illegible.
   2. Incompletely or illegibly addressed: blind mail.
   3. Hidden from sight: a blind seam.
   4. Screened from the view of oncoming motorists: a blind driveway.
   5. Secret or otherwise undisclosed: a blind item in a military budget.
8. Closed at one end: a blind socket; a blind passage.
9. Having no opening: a blind wall.
10. Botany. Failing to produce flowers or fruits: a blind bud.

n.

1. (used with a pl. verb) Blind people considered as a group. Used with the: a radio station for reading to the blind.
2. Something, such as a window shade or a Venetian blind, that hinders vision or shuts out light.
3. A shelter for concealing hunters or nature photographers.
4. Something intended to conceal the true nature, especially of an activity; a subterfuge.

adv.

1. 1. Without seeing; blindly.
   2. Without the aid of visual reference: flew blind through the fog.
2. Without forethought or provision; unawares: entered into the scheme blind.
3. Without significant information, especially that might affect an outcome or result: "When you read blind, you see everything but the author" (Margaret Atwood).
4. Informal. Into a stupor: drank themselves blind.
5. Used as an intensive: Thieves in the bazaar robbed us blind.

tr.v., blind·ed, blind·ing, blinds.

1. To deprive of sight: was blinded in an industrial accident.
2. To dazzle: skiers temporarily blinded by sunlight on snow.
3. To deprive of perception or insight: prejudice that blinded them to the merits of the proposal.
4. To withhold light from: Thick shrubs blinded our downstairs windows.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

blindingly blind'ing·ly adv.
blindly blind'ly adv.
blindness blind'ness n.

gouache 

音節

 

gouache

 

発音

 

gwɑ'ːʃ

gouacheの変化形

 

gouaches (複数形)

1. [名]
2. 1 [U]グァッシュ：不透明水彩絵の具で描く画法；その絵の具.
3. 2 グァッシュ画.