st. lawrence market and the distillery: one of my favourite weekend haunts of toronto.  looking at my photographs from one year ago makes me regret not having had time to visit the market again while i was home for the holidays.

i am back in california, and preparing for a new semester -- it is going to be an even busier one, being my second and last semester, and also because i will be a graduate instructor for an undergraduate class on drawing and visual representation.  i'm excited and a bit nervous; if nothing else, i hope that i will be able to pass on my passion for drawing to my students.

it's only been a week, but i'm already missing toronto and everyone back home.  though i must admit that it IS nice to be able to go for a long run outdoors again!

don't know why, but i've been drawing lots more people lately.  i went with m. to the gladstone hotel for the drop-in life drawing session this past wednesday evening, and while everyone else was concentrating on the model's body and muscles and movements, i kept on focusing on his facial features, trying to capture his anguished expression on paper.  there's just something so terribly beautiful about the human face.