Drawings For The Drawer

Paul Dodd Homeless Rochester Teen 2014 Charcoal on paper
Paul Dodd Homeless Rochester Teen 2014 Charcoal on paper

I photographed some homeless Rochester teenagers a few years ago. I did many drawings of them and then paintings. I finally finished a series of charcoal drawings of them and now I’m ready to move on. But first I have clean u the drawings a bit, spray them with fixative, photograph them am and put them in in a drawer between sheets of glassine.

I plan to pick my favorite version of them and show the batch in an upcoming show at I-Square gallery. The show in tentatively entitled “3 ‘D’s In Dodd” and there may be a subtitle such as “There Are More” so as not to slight the rest of the family. My brother John and our dad will also be featured. Lately I start with a source and quickly stop referring to it so the drawings look quite different from one another. The guy above in an upcoming show at the Creative Workshop.

Today is a perfect day to photograph and a not so good day to spray fixative. There is twenty inches of snow forecast for those of us near the lake and our Margaret Explosion gig at the Little has been canceled because the weather.

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