This Is Amazing

Feel Good Inc

Happy New Years to everyone on Earth.

I'm lying here recovering from four days of bing excess. The Filipinos like to stay up all night eating, drinking whiskey and singing karaoke and God bless them.

Whew.

I've been on Tumblr for a year now. Thank you everyone for all your likes and follows. Here is a recap of some of the drawings I have shared. The dates of the pieces range from 1977 to 2024. In no particular order.

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

"The best is yet to come" - Frank Sinatra

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Steve's mother

Ballpoint pen and red pencil

Calbayog City 2024

This drawing... I don't know.

But first off, I'm not Steve.

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Carrickfergus

pen and watercolor

Los Angeles 2016

Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus,

If only for the night in Ballygrand,

I would swim over the deepest ocean,

The deepest ocean for my love to find.

But the sea is wide and I can not swim over

And neither have I wings to fly.

If I could find me a handsome boatman

To ferry me over to my love and die.

Irish folk song

Carrickfergus - Headland

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Black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2015

I like this drawing.

I know the signature is upside down.

But so is the drawing.

Destiny - Zero 7

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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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Next

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

These drawing are like playing with finger paints but with maybe a little more intectual input.

I work in layers. The above drawings is made of five layers. Below is the drawing after three layers. Really fun to watch them grow.

black and white

Massive Attack/Horace Andy - Man Next Door

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Natural progression

watercolor on paper

Los Angeles 2019

When I become artistically lost, I draw circles.

There is something deeply satisfying about a circle. It conveys, at least to me, the completeness of life, the circadian rhythms of nature, the endless hope of rebirth.

I draw and I feel the metaphysical ambiance.

But I know its all an illusion.

Hailu Mergia - Endegena

Yesterday we went on a road trip up to the north coast of our island. We traveled through the Philippine outback and along the way we stopped and bought road side foods, which were delicious.

We traveled as a group. My wife and myself with our kids. Some friends came along as well with their kids.

It was so beautiful.

We drove for several hours through the countryside and all the while, even though I knew it was all an illusion...

I had to admit that it was a beautiful illusion.

It's an illusion

watercolor on paper

Los Angeles 2019

Ballpoint pen, Calbayog City, 2024

Ballpoint pen, Calbayog City, 2024

Ballpoint pen, Calbayog City, 2024

Our bedroom floor, Calbayog City, 2024

Our bathroom wall, Calbayog City, 2024

Recent drawings and photos.

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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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midnites

watercolor and pen, westwood, 1985

I used to have bad insomnia. I'd toss and turn in the middle of the night and finally, in frustration, I'd roll over and draw. I kept a drawing lying next to me just for this purpose. In the middle of the night I'd drawn until sleep came. The above drawing is one such piece. Slowly drawn in the wee hours of the morning during bouts of insomnia.

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