Make White Work

Paul Dodd charcoal drawing from "Five Philadelphia Priests" 2012
Paul Dodd charcoal drawing from “Five Philadelphia Priests” 2012

I wrote these three words on the drawing above because that was the last thing Fred Lipp said to me in painting class on Wednesday. I have since worked on it and will bring it back to class when I’m done. It is funny how you start with a pure white piece of paper and add marks and such until you lose sight of the fact that the white needs to work as well as the stuff you’re adding. My father is in the class too and he said that’s the first one of these guys that I’ve seen with a smile on his face. I said, “That because he is a priest.”

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