Youth And Innocence

Pen drawing on paper

Hollywood 2018

My drawings remember what I did while I was drawing.

Pen drawing on paper

Hollywood 2018

"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.

if you look

black sharpie

Miami 2010

If you look closely at the edge of a black hole it becomes obvious that the entire universe is made of little tiny things.

black sharpie on manila paper

Miami 2010

After Egon Schiele

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Egon Schiele was the bad boy of European art but he drew like an angel. Redrawing his art is a double edged sword. I learn so much from his drawing but I am forever humbled by his genius. He created masterpieces while still in his teens. He gave us nearly 4000 works of art and then he died tragically at 28. Damn.

After Egon Schiele

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

After Egon Schiele

Black Sharpie

2016

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

There is thar moment when the drawing looks back at me. I love that.

Later.

I worked it a bit more. I'm going to leave it here.

Don't Let Babylon Use You

FRED LOCKS & the CREATION STEPPERS

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I've got five layers on this drawing. Im amazed the paper is holding up.

Thank you Arches paper & Prisma pencils.

Don't let Babylon use you

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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

Zero 7 - Home

I did the pen drawing last night before dinner and the pencil drawing this morning in bed.

Next comes pancakes.

Saturday night

ballpoint pen

Calbayog City 2024

Sunday morning

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

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And then I remembered

black sharpie on paper, rosemead, 2011

As I've been working on my latest drawings, I've been having this strange sense of having been here before. Not exactly deja vu but there was something. And then I remembered this drawing.

This drawing used to be my favorite drawing. I spent some time on it and looking at it now it still looks pretty cool. I hate to explain my art so I won't. It just, to me, looks cool.

When I drew it I was living in this cute little back house in Rosemead California surrounded by avacado trees. Not that that has anything to do with the drawing, but the avacados were great.

With my new drawings, if you look at them, it seems I have been unwitingly redrawing this older drawing, over again. Same thing only different.

Like I said it used to be my favorite drawing. Maybe deep down it still is..

Same thing only different

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

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T.I.B.W.F.

The BUDOS BAND

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I was doing this one all in reds and yellows, and it was on fire!

So, I decided to give the fire a bit of definition with dark blue lines, and, I might have gotten a bit carried away with the blue, but then, and I'm not sure why I didn't expect this but, I got these lovely browns.

We call that serendipity.

As a side note, Sean, my nine year old son says this is the worst drawing I've ever made..

He's a harsh critic.

before the blue

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