Greedy Babylon

Time is static

pen and pencil

Hollywood 2019

Bring me home

colored pencil and pen on paper

Los Angeles 2018

colored pencil and ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2018

I must have drawn fifteen variations of this drawing. I don't know why. Most of them I drew during down time at work. I liked the image. I still do. It gives me hope for the future. Again, I don't know why.

Maybe I'll draw another.

colored pencil and sharpie

Hollywood 2018

black sharpie

Hollywood 2018

Bring me home - Sade

"Space is where you let go, not where you hold on" - Alan Watts

Yesterday, Sean, my 8 yo son, asked me:

"Dad, what's more believable, a jellyfish or a unicorn?"

I love it when he asks me things like that.

Space time and jellyfish

Pen drawing

Chicago 2004

colored pencil and symmetry

Los Angeles 2015

The Crystal Ship

Before you slip into unconsciousness

I'd like to have another kiss

Another flashing chance at bliss

Another kiss

The days are bright and filled with pain

Enclose me in your gentle reign

The time you ran was too insane

We'll meet again

We'll meet again

Jim Morrison, The Doors

The Crystal Ship

The Doors

Shadow games

Los Incas - La Mandorle

The other night I saw some neighborhood kids playing shadow games. It was so beautiful.

Calbayog City, Philippines

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Non-thinking

Alan Watts - Non-thinking

black pen, monrovia, 1996

Alan Watts

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Unicorns and Jellyfish

colored pencil, Monrovia, 1997

This morning Sean, my nine year old son asked me,

"Dad, what's more believable, a unicorn or a jellyfish?"

My son's gone to school now but I'm still mulling that one over.

Here's a couple of older drawings.

Happy Friday.

still life

pencil drawing, Hollywood, 2017

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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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High tide

watercolor and pen on crepe paper

Santa Barbara 1980

I have had a life long love affair with the Pacific Ocean. I did this painting years ago when I was living in Santa Barbara on the California coast. We'd go on long road trips up the coast highway. Have you ever spent the night on the beach at Big Sur? Put it on your bucket list.

I now live on the other side of the ocean on a small island in the Philippines. We go on road trips up through the coconut jungle mountains to this little beach town we know. The northern coast of the island faces the Pacific Ocean. The deep blues of the tropical sea are literally intoxicating.

Thank you so much for posting all your art on here. I have just found you for the first time and your art is simply beautiful to me. I first saw the beautiful pink and blue piece that looks like stained glass and it made me feel so peaceful and serene that I came to your page and looked at everything else you have made as well. I will buy one as soon as I can afford art on top of rent. You have an absolute gift, and I hope I keep seeing your pieces :)

Thank you, Anonymous. That means a lot to me. ❤️

Midnights after getting home

Watercolor and sharpie

Westwood 1985

Nina Simone

To love somebody - Nina Simone

Nina Simone

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