Day 5

The run:

When the ground is a little less icy I will run around the athletic field of the school next door to ours (we don't actually have a field but borrow theirs on a regular basis).  But I rise at 5.30 to be at school and ready for teaching by 8.00 on Tuesdays, so there was no running today, except up two flights of stairs (I always run up stairs now), which doesn't really count for much. So here is a panorama of our pond, yes, there is an icy pond under all that snow!

The self-portrait:

One of my senior students is just a marvel, one of those people who can draw anything, he has a future with Pixar or in graphic novels, just amazing.  Today I was teaching them about faces and the features on them, because one kid, Jean (french, a boy) wanted to learn how to draw male and female faces, he is frustrated as his people always end up looking androgynous, or boyish. And he so wants his girls to look 'hot'!

And it is really difficult, because if you draw from life, then each face has individual characteristics, which may fit into the male or female stylised categories, like rounder, smaller, for women, and angular, bigger, larger-browed for men.  And it seems as though we draw ourselves, or our sex, better than the opposite one, as in my class, all the guys can draw male faces more easily than female, and vice versa.  So here is my (female) eye, which, as you can see, is indistinguishable, out of context, from a male eye, isn't it?