Random Hotel

Beautiful thing

Black sharpie on beige paper

Rosemead 2012

This drawing came out of nowhere. Like a mystical gift, one day it just happened.

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Tropical diving

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I added more to this one. I love playing with these colored pencil pigments.

I brought heavy duty art paper from America that can put up with some abuse. I draw with the pencils and then rub them with alcohol. The colors smear around and blend together. When the alcohol dries I draw more and then smear again. It's so satisfying.

Lately I'm inspired by the blue of the Philippine sea near my home. I went diving a few days ago. The colors of the tropical waters were just like this drawing. As I dove around in a pastel coral forest I actually met a tropical sea snake. It calmly swam about ten feet from me. The snake, the coral forest and the tropical blue ocean were breathtaking.

Hermanos Gutierez - Esperanza

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black sharpie, Monrovia 1998

Another swirl drawing. I put those gaps in the lines just because I thought it would look cool but then the drawing took on a completely unexpected life. I was surprised.

Drawing those big swirls was a challenge. I remember feeling neurotic about them not being perfect. A couple of them still bug me. I'm a nut. :))

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Lost in time

black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2013

I think this was the last Sierpinski drawings I did. I really enjoyed making these drawings. The sierpinski triangle is a drawing technique that one, or at least that I, can become utterly lost in. Hours can go by with no other thought than "draw."

So lovely.

Like a good drug.

I should do another one.

Chet Baker - Almost blue

This song kills me.

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Lavender Pink Tangerine

colored pencil & ballpoint pen, calbayog city, 2025

You see Doc, I tell myself that I'm not going to draw another one, and then, I just... do it.

Red, lavender, pink and tangerine.

C0l03 - Tezeta

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Daydream

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

From my morning drawing. I tried posting this on Instagram and I got an immediate full screen message telling me to delete it or else!

Community guidelines..

Kind of funny.

License to kill

Life is so important

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Let's talk.

My 8 year old son asks me why we're living in the Philippines, and I really don't know what to tell him.

How do I make sense to him out of a world that no longer makes sense?

Richie Havens - License to Kill by Bob Dylan

I Don't Know Anything

MAD SEASON

Mad Season live at the Moore Theater, 1995

Mad Season: Barrett Martin, Layne Staley, John Baker Saunders, and Mike McCready

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Dr Dre - Whats the difference between me & you

black sharpie on paper

Miami 2009

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colored pencil and symmetry

Los Angeles 2015

The Crystal Ship

Before you slip into unconsciousness

I'd like to have another kiss

Another flashing chance at bliss

Another kiss

The days are bright and filled with pain

Enclose me in your gentle reign

The time you ran was too insane

We'll meet again

We'll meet again

Jim Morrison, The Doors

The Crystal Ship

The Doors