License To Kill

Of Mice and Men

black sharpie on beige paper

Rosemead, 2011

This drawing is actually petty big. About 36 inches in length. I spent some time on it.

Let me tell you a story.

A year or so after I made this drawing, I met a guy who loved my art. He told me he had connections in Hollywood. He was friends with a guy who owned a gallery. He was going to arrange for a showing of my drawings. This, of course, sounded great to me, so I went out and had six of my best pieces professionally framed, including this drawing.

And then... the guy went crazy.

Seriously.

The guy had a complete mental break down.

Babbling crazy kind of breakdown. Dude!

The last I heard about the guy he was being taken to his family's home in New York where he was going to be committed to a mental hospital.

I still have the pieces framed.

Kind of funny.

I made a few nice inverse color prints of this drawing.

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if you look

black sharpie

Miami 2010

If you look closely at the edge of a black hole it becomes obvious that the entire universe is made of little tiny things.

black sharpie on manila paper

Miami 2010

The Band - The Weight

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

I was fortunate enough to see The Band's farewell concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1976. My friend's mother was a reporter for the LA Times and she had guest tickets but she couldn't go so she gave the tickets to us. It turned out the tickets were for the VIP section! What a great show. There we were, three crazy young hippies, high on peyote, sitting in front row center seats, along side a bevy of Hollywood dignitaries, digging The Band and all their guest artists.

Fond memory.

What a trip.

E ticket.

The Band

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Sleep

watercolor, los angeles, 2016

When I can't sleep I close my eyes and visualize drawing. Sometimes I visualize drawing with the pencil. Other times I see the brush laying down pigments. At some point my mind becomes interested in the drawing and I begin to dream...

watercolor, los angeles, 2016

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And then I remembered

black sharpie on paper, rosemead, 2011

As I've been working on my latest drawings, I've been having this strange sense of having been here before. Not exactly deja vu but there was something. And then I remembered this drawing.

This drawing used to be my favorite drawing. I spent some time on it and looking at it now it still looks pretty cool. I hate to explain my art so I won't. It just, to me, looks cool.

When I drew it I was living in this cute little back house in Rosemead California surrounded by avacado trees. Not that that has anything to do with the drawing, but the avacados were great.

With my new drawings, if you look at them, it seems I have been unwitingly redrawing this older drawing, over again. Same thing only different.

Like I said it used to be my favorite drawing. Maybe deep down it still is..

Same thing only different

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

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After Munch

(Augustus Pablo - Dub Organizer)

pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2023

I absolutely adore Edvard Munch but here's the deal.. If you search for Munch's art you're going to get like a million copies of "The Scream" which is a great painting sure, but there is so much more to Edvard Munch than "The Scream."

Anyway, IMHO, Edvard Munch is a wonderful artist and if you like drawing he is certainly someone well worth studying.

Study for Madonna

Edvard Munch. 1894

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Nuff respect for Donovan

Donovan - Season of the Witch (Official Audio)

Snail shells

watercolor and pen

Los Angeles 2018

These were fun to draw

Message to Michael - Dionne Warwick

Just because I love this song.

We're going on a road trip today. Up to the north coast of the Island. We'll pack the van with my kids and ten or so cousins. And lots of food. And have fun 🤣

Let me tell you about blue...

The Pacific ocean is so beautiful.

We are all part of the fabric of space and time.

pen drawing on board

Rosemead 2011