Leonard Cohen - Mastersong

New Mexico

red and black sharpie

Somewhere in New Mexico 2010

In 2010 I moved from Miami Florida to Los Angeles California. It was a great trip. I packed all my stuff in my Honda and took two months off to drive across the country.

I wound up spending most of my time camping out in the mountains of New Mexico. I was traveling by mysef and let me tell you, sleeping alone in the pitch black darkness of the New Mexican wilderness was creepy..

I remember one day I decided to go for a hike. I walked up a mountain trail following a small creek into the wilderness. After I had wandered for a few miles I found, growing by the water, a wild cherry tree covered with cherries. The cherries were ripe and almost black and so sweet.

So I sat down by the creek and made a lunch of wild cherries and cool mountain stream water. In the middle of the wilderness. No one there except for me and God.

Me, somewhere in Nevada. 2010

During my trip I drew in my moleskine a lot. It was during that trip that I hit upon drawing with red and black sharpies. The above drawing is from my moleskine. I was feeling deep into the colors and imagery of the American Southwest.

Some where in New Mexico, 2010

I've returned to this motif several times since then. Here is one I did around 2016.

Arizona

red and black sharpie on manila paper

Los Angeles 2016

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doodle edition

My art, really, arose from my doodlings during class as a boy. I mean seriously, what else are you supposed to do during those lectures. And you have a pen in your hand..

Later I doodled at work. Same game, different decade.

So here are some doodles I made at work. They were all drawn with whatever pen I was using that day on whatever paper I had in front of me.

I might have more lying around. I'll look in the closets..

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Perfect day

LOU REED

pencil drawing, Calbayog City, 2025

Today is my birthday.

I'm 74 years old and it's a perfect day.

Live long and prosper my friends.

🖖

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I tried so hard and got so far

But in the end it doesn't even matter

I had to fall to lose it all

And in the end it doesn't even matter

Linkin Park - In The End (Mellen Gi & Tommee Profitt Remix)

Dédicace

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Un Amour Perdu

Depuis

Bien longtemps

Lavender

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

Ok, its done. I added one more layer of lavender just because lavender is lovely.

Even Sean, my nine year old son, and harshest critic, likes it. So.. it's done.

Leila Pinneiro - Chega de Saudada

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Paint tube #1

pencil on newsprint

Venice California 1975

I love finding old drawings. These are a couple of drawings I did almost fifty years ago. I remember drawing them quite clearly. I was living at the time with some friends in an old house in Venice Beach, California. I drew these one day sittling at the kitchen table.

I just took these photos today. The newsprint is about ready to fall apart but the drawings themselves look fresh. I'm amazed that we're all still intact.

Paint tube #2

pencil on newsprint

Venice, California 1975

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Shadow games

Los Incas - La Mandorle

The other night I saw some neighborhood kids playing shadow games. It was so beautiful.

Calbayog City, Philippines

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Visions of Johanna

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet.

We're sitting here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it.

-- Bob Dylan

Visions of Johanna- Bob Dylan

pencil drawings

Calbayog City 2024

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The Boatman

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

My wife is fixing a big Thanksgiving feast. I can smell the food cooking downstairs.

We live in a small port city and my wife went down to the docks early this morning and picked up an amazing assortment of fresh sea food. Crabs, scallops, muscles, octopus, milk fish, shrimp, along with assorted fresh vegetables. This is going to be a feast.

I was admiring the bounty of sea food with my eight year old son, Sean.

"Daddy?" Sean asked me out of the blue, "Have you ever noticed that 'SHELLFISH' sounds a lot like 'SELFISH'?"

I love it when he says things like that.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone 💓

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So beautiful

The Blacksmith (Live in Cotopaxi) Lady Moon