T.I.B.W.F.

colored pencil on paper.

Los Angeles CA 2018

I had that dream again last night.

I dream I'm in a differen city looking for a place to live. I'm alone, searching with this longing feeling deep in my soul.

I've been having this dream for years.

When I wake up I'm so relieved.

colored pencil

Los Angeles CA 2018

colored pencil on paper.

Los Angeles CA 2018

colored pencil on paper.

Los Angeles CA 2018

Tropical diving

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I added more to this one. I love playing with these colored pencil pigments.

I brought heavy duty art paper from America that can put up with some abuse. I draw with the pencils and then rub them with alcohol. The colors smear around and blend together. When the alcohol dries I draw more and then smear again. It's so satisfying.

Lately I'm inspired by the blue of the Philippine sea near my home. I went diving a few days ago. The colors of the tropical waters were just like this drawing. As I dove around in a pastel coral forest I actually met a tropical sea snake. It calmly swam about ten feet from me. The snake, the coral forest and the tropical blue ocean were breathtaking.

Hermanos Gutierez - Esperanza

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pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

We are reborn in our children.

pencil drawing in my Moleskine

Calbayog City 2024

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Random hotel

colored pencils on paper

Los Angeles 2019

I had nightmares again last night and woke up exhausted. Why does my mind do that to itself?

Totally unrelated, I drew these random hotels a few years back. I like the colors. And the textures.

The other Random Hotel

colored pencil on paper

Los Angeles 2018

recent drawing

pencil drawing, Calbayog City, 2025

Beauty and love remain undefined.

And that's best.

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After Munch

(Augustus Pablo - Dub Organizer)

pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2023

I absolutely adore Edvard Munch but here's the deal.. If you search for Munch's art you're going to get like a million copies of "The Scream" which is a great painting sure, but there is so much more to Edvard Munch than "The Scream."

Anyway, IMHO, Edvard Munch is a wonderful artist and if you like drawing he is certainly someone well worth studying.

Study for Madonna

Edvard Munch. 1894

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The Boatman

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

My wife is fixing a big Thanksgiving feast. I can smell the food cooking downstairs.

We live in a small port city and my wife went down to the docks early this morning and picked up an amazing assortment of fresh sea food. Crabs, scallops, muscles, octopus, milk fish, shrimp, along with assorted fresh vegetables. This is going to be a feast.

I was admiring the bounty of sea food with my eight year old son, Sean.

"Daddy?" Sean asked me out of the blue, "Have you ever noticed that 'SHELLFISH' sounds a lot like 'SELFISH'?"

I love it when he says things like that.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone 💓

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pencil drawing on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

I just drew this about 30 minutes ago. I know it's not a finished complete drawing but its finished enough that she's talking to me. And I'm listening to her.

I think I'm going to listen to her for a while. Tomorrow is another day.

Update:

I worked on her some more. She's still only half done but she's still talking to me so I'm going to quit while I'm ahead. And it's dinner time.

A young woman with a hair barrette

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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Colored pencil and pen 2024

I love black and white. But I need color.

Colored pencil 2024

Colored pencil 2024

Colored pencil 2024

Colored pencil 2024