All This Love

final layer

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I added another layer to this drawing, and I'm thinking it's done. Not gonna lie, I like it.

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Greedy Babylon

Vernon Maytone feat. Prince Jazzbo

pencil drawings, calbayog city, 2025

Dateline 2025: War in Babylon.

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

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black sharpie on bond paper

Hollywood 2018

When your mind wanders, follow it.

black sharpie on bond paper

Hollywood 2018

black sharpie on bond paper

Hollywood 2018

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Colored pencil and pen 2024

I love black and white. But I need color.

Colored pencil 2024

Colored pencil 2024

Colored pencil 2024

Colored pencil 2024

She come in colors

Colored pencil on paper

Calbayog City 2024

"Dad, what do you call a solar system without a sun?" Sean, my seven year old son asked me.

It was evening time and we were walking into town to get a snack.

I thought about it for a moment and couldn't think of a fast comeback so I said, "I don't know, what do you call it?" and braced myself.

"A system!" he said and looked up at me grinning. "Ya get it?" He asked and laughed.

Got to admit that made me smile.

It's about four blocks from our home to our town's downtown area. Along the way I stopped off at an ATM machine to get some cash.

When I got the money my son said to me,

"You mean you can just get money from a machine?!?!"

"Yah," I said not really thinking about it.

"Then why don't homeless people do that!!!" he asked in astonishment.

I started to answer him and then I remembered that thats basically what the government does....

I stopped walking and looked up into the sky.

Waiting for an answer that didn't come.

Calbayog City 2024

She comes in colors - Love

Cast your fate to the wind

Cast your fate to the wind - Shelby Flint

"The empty sky is my best friend."

Occationally in this dear life there comes a moment when we can either sit tight and watch, or stand up and throw ourselves head long into the chaos.

Daily drawing

4B pencil on watercolor paper

Calbayog City, Philippines, 2024

Bob Dylan 1965

I love this man

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pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

For the past two days I've been playing with the zygomatic process. It gives some drama to a drawing. And I've always thought it had the coolest name in all of human anatomy.

This morning as I lay with my wife she thought I was massaging her head. And I was. But I was also appreciating her zygomatic process.

pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

High tide

watercolor and pen on crepe paper

Santa Barbara 1980

I have had a life long love affair with the Pacific Ocean. I did this painting years ago when I was living in Santa Barbara on the California coast. We'd go on long road trips up the coast highway. Have you ever spent the night on the beach at Big Sur? Put it on your bucket list.

I now live on the other side of the ocean on a small island in the Philippines. We go on road trips up through the coconut jungle mountains to this little beach town we know. The northern coast of the island faces the Pacific Ocean. The deep blues of the tropical sea are literally intoxicating.

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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