Dust In The Wiind

A curious snail

watercolor on paper

black and white photo

Los Angeles 2018

It's easy, at least for me, to imagine that snails have characters.

Maybe it's those eyes, poking out on their stocks, looking....

I wonder, do snails dream?

And if so, of what do they dream?

Do snails dream of wet concrete and fresh clover?

Do juvenile snails have wet dreams?

I've never thought of that before but why not?

Little snail nuts messing up the grass where they sleep...

So cute.

watercolor

Los Angeles 2018

Greedy Jones

VERNON MAYTONE

Vernon Maytone

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Today

colored pencil & pen, monrovia 1996

I started drawing these swirls. And then I went nuts drawing swirls. I must have drawn 50 of these swirl drawings. I drew them at work and at home. On my napkin at the restaurant. It was all I wanted to do. One day a friend came to my place. When she saw I was drawing another swirl drawing she made this sound of exacerbation and said, "Pat! what's going on?"

Tbh I felt a little embarassed. So I moved on to drawing squares...

I still have a bunch of those swirl drawings.

I really like this one.

detail

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Anne's hand

Tom Rush/Joni Mitchell - Urge for Going

Your hand is always in everything. Do you know that?

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

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Youth and innocence

pencil drawing

Culver City 1977

This is an old one. 1977.

I can still remember drawing it. I was living at the time, with someone special, in an apartment in Culver City, with a big double bed. When she came home that night she loved it.

I stlll have this drawing tucked away in one of my drawers.

And I still have my memories tucked away in my mind.

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Only Love Can Break Your Heart

CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG

I was a freshman in college when this song came out and, 55 years later, it still kills me.

Recorded live at the Capital Center, Landover, MD. August 20, 1974.

CSN&Y

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Blaze Foley - If I could only fly

black sharpie on paper

Monrovia 1996

Almost felt you touching me just now

Wish I knew which way to turn and go

Feel so good, then I feel so bad

Wonder what I ought to do

If I could only fly, if I could only fly

I'd bid this place goodbye

to come and be with you

But I can hardly stand,

I got no where to run

Another sinking sun,

one more lonely night

- Blaze Foley

black sharpie and colored pencils

Westwood 1986

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It was a good week

Chezidek - Beat Them

colored pencil drawings, calbayog city, 2025

Making these drawings, this past week, has been all together liberating. I am taking a short break while I consider what colors to explore next.

That photo is me in 2014.

full sun photo

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Maritess

pencil drawing

Calbayog City, Philippines, 2024

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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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