The Curious Snail

Sean wanted blue

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

Sean, my nine year old son, told me he wanted a drawing that was just blue, so I'm drawing this. I've used four different blue pencils so far, but hear me out. As I worked the pigments with alcohol, I could see that the darker blue was bleeding off some purple, which was lovely. So I went back to my pencil box and found a lavender pencil, which is not exactly blue, but it made the drawing look just like the ocean off the coast here which is way cool.

Sean likes it, so far, so..

I'm going to add more. I think. But I seriously love these colors.

Brian Wilson - The Lonely Sea

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Soul Syndicate Band

Soul Syndicate Band feat. Tony Tuff

From the movie: Words, Sound and Power

Soul Syndicate Band

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Where do we go from here? 2024

New Years 2024 and I'm sorry folks but how on earth did we wake up in this story line. Smh.

Pencil drawing in my notebook.

Calbayog 2024

Mystery and manifestation

Black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2022

Mystery and manifestation

arise from the same source.

This source is called darkness.

- Lao Tsu

Zero 7 - Warm Sound

Space Oddity

DAVID BOWIE

Live at the Ivor Novella Awards, London, 1970

David Bowie

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some random old drawings

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Niney I soon know - One foot Sammy

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Moi DTLA

If I remember right, this photo was taken sometime around 2013. I was in the CR at a gas station near downtown Los Angeles and decided to take a quick selfie..

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Recent drawings

Nagai - Stronger

watercolor, ballpoint pen, colored pencils

Calbayog City 2024

Peyote memories

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

I think the only mind altering substance that I truly miss from my misspent youth is peyote.

Way back then, back before life's crushing journey had forced responsibility upon me, I found that next to the emotion of love, the mental state produced by consuming the peyote cactus was perhaps the most wonderful thing this side of paradise.

We, my friends and I, used to blend the peyote buttons in V8 juice.

We called it V9 juice.

"Watch out for that 9th vegetable," we would say.

And crack up.

Totally unrelated but here are a couple drawings I did this morning..

I don't know why but they got me thinking about psychedelics.

Peyote memories

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

And yes, they do look similar. That's because I drew one of the drawings on the backside of the other drawing.

Why not? 🤣

Peyote buttons

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So very lonely

Black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2016

De Kooning once said, "In order for art to work the finished piece needs to at least look better than the original blank canvas."

I think de Kooning said that.

Maybe I imagined it.

In that case I said it.

I don't know.

The Rolling Stones- 2000 Lightyears from home