Self Portrait 1979

Carrickfergus

Pen and watercolor on paper

Los Angeles 2016

Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus, Only for nights in Ballygrand, I would swim over the deepest ocean, The deepest ocean to be by your side.

But the water's wide and I can not swim over And neither have I wings to fly. I wish I could meet a handsome boatman To ferry me over to my love and die.

Irish folk song

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I once knew a girl named Bambi

Pencil drawing on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

Lather - The Jefferson Airplane

The Sari Sari store

One of the more lovely aspects of Filipino culture are the Sari Sari stores. Small family businesses that operate out of a home window. The streets are lined with them. Little window shops selling snacks, drinks, canned goods and what not. In my early trips to the Philippines the colorful item filled windows reminded me of the repetitive motifs of my own art. I thought about this for the entire trip once back in 2016, and then when I got home I sat down drew this.

Sari Sari, watercolor and sharpie, los angeles, 2016

Sari Sari store

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ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

I drew this this morning.

It's ugly and it's beautiful.

Sufjan Stevens - The Transfiguration

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Bob Dylan 1965

I love this man

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Coral reef

colored pencil (inverse colors)

Los Angeles 2015

For years I worked pretty much exclusively in black and white using a black sharpie. Then one day, around 2011, I showed a bunch of my pieces to my brother who looked at them and simply said,

"Your work needs more color."

Pissed. Me. Off...

In anger I went out and bought a bunch of colored pencils and had at it.

I'm really glad he said that to me.

Arizona

colored pencil (inverse colors)

Los Angeles 2016

Esparanza

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

A new one. This time red, lavender and pink.

The pink bleeds off yellow when I rub it with alcohol. Strange. Another mystery for me to ponder.

I wake up early each morning and draw to the sounds of roosters crowing.

I draw, in solitude, drunk on colors and black coffee.

It's summertime here so the kids are on break. After everyone wakes up we go down to the beach and hang out.

Hermanos Gutierez - Esparanza

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Colored pencil on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

I live in a small city on an island in the Philippines. We own an old two story building with a store on the first floor facing the street. We live on the second floor. In our bedroom we have a huge bed where we all sleep, my wife, myself and our two children, lying together Filipino stye. The second floor has a long balcony that wraps around three sides of the building. We have the balcony filled with potted plants. My wife hangs our clothes out to dry on the balcony. The colorful clothing gently blowing in the wind is beautiful. This morning I sat out on the balcony with my coffee and watched the sun rise.

colored pencil on paper inverse imae

Calbayog City 2024

I just want to say thank you. Your art offers a different perspective. I haven't had very much energy lately, but scrolling through tumblr and seeing your latest piece. I don't know what to say. Just a small glimpse and I was obsessed. It reminded me of the fact that everything large achievement is composed of a multitude of small goals. Art can change the direction of the world, and yours shifted my course a little.

Wow, thank you anonymous, you just made my day. - Patrick

Imaginary can

Ballpointpen & alcohol in my moleskine

Los Angeles 2018

Of what does the fetus dream?

Ballpoint pen on a manila envelope

Los Angeles 2014

I drew this at work when my wife was pregnant with our first child.

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