Myndersian

Paul Dodd Basketball Player charcoal drawing #5 2014
Paul Dodd Basketball Player charcoal drawing #5 2014

Somewhere I picked up a 1957 yearbook for Mynderse Academy, a small private school in Seneca Falls. The cover of the Myndersian looked like a Sun Ra album. The page devoted to the basketball team only showed six players. One sub. The head on the page read, “Team Faced Tough Competition.” I painted the six guys about twenty years ago. They were my first oil paintings.

I decided to revisit them and stated with charcoal on canvas. I kinda like the drawing and and I’m pausing to figure out why it is I want to paint them.

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  1. I think part of the fascination is that people in the fifties, when we were kids, looked different, especially teens who were born during WWII. They were undernourished as young children in many cases due to rationing. If you picked up a yearbook from today they would look much different- taller and rounder. That face is gaunt. How many high school kids look gaunt?

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