Come To Me

I tried so hard and got so far

But in the end it doesn't even matter

I had to fall to lose it all

And in the end it doesn't even matter

Linkin Park - In The End (Mellen Gi & Tommee Profitt Remix)

Dédicace

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Un Amour Perdu

Depuis

Bien longtemps

"Into the mystic" Van Morrison

Let me tell you a story.

We used to live in Los Angeles California.

I loved Southern California but one day in 2020 I was driving home from work listening to an NPR discussion about the war in Ukraine and at one point one of the panelists asked,

"What should the US do if Putin decides to use nuclear weapons?"

(!)

True story.

When I got home I told my wife I was going to quit my job and that we were going to the Philippines.

And she said,

"Great."

We had been planning this for a while so she was happy to hear I had finally decided to make the move. We had a house waiting for us. And family. We were only staying in LA for my work But my work had suddenly become not worth it.

So.. We packed up our kids and left.

Just like that.

Into the mystic.

Precious cargo. Sunset over Negros Occidental, Philippines.

Pen drawing on paper

Hollywood 2018

My drawings remember what I did while I was drawing.

Pen drawing on paper

Hollywood 2018

Non-thinking

Alan Watts - Non-thinking

black pen, monrovia, 1996

Alan Watts

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HAPPY NEW YEARS !!!

Fasten your seat belts, here comes 2025.

🙃

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Flowers

colored pencil, los angeles, 2018

Going through some old notebooks and I found this.

Tom Rush - No Regrets

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T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Nougbo Vehou

This really blows me away. Going back I'm finding that I like my colored pieces better in black & white than in the original color. SMH

This really bothers me.

Next day...

It's not that I don't like the drawing's color. It's more that the drawing becomes lost in the colors and it becomes flat

Back when I did this drawing I wanted my drawings to have no there there. Nothing to suggest a shape other than the image in its entirely.

But now looking at it I want something to define something.

I'm going to do another one of these to show you what I mean.

Kind of Pink

Colored pencil

Los Angeles 2015

The curious snail

ball point pen on paper

Los Angeles 2014

I like this drawing. If I was the snail I would like this drawing too.

The Boatman #3

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City, Samar 2024

I'm seriously thinking about adding color to this one.....

Recent drawings

Nagai - Stronger

watercolor, ballpoint pen, colored pencils

Calbayog City 2024