Relax

Urge for going

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I really enjoyed making these drawings, and I think they're beautiful, but I'm feeling that urge to move on. Or maybe it's just that I want to do more but I'm not certain how.

Let me think.

In any case these were fun.

Budos Band - T.I.B.W.F

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A Young Filipina

pencil drawing on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

The Philippines and the Filipino people are so beautiful. If you ever visit the Philippines come to the provinces. Life out here is simple and natural. I love it.

I'm doing my pencil drawings on watercolor paper. It gives them a rich texture and it allows me to work them heavily with the eraser.

I took two pictures of this drawing. I can't decide which one to post so I'll post both

Only Love Can Break Your Heart

CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG

I was a freshman in college when this song came out and, 55 years later, it still kills me.

Recorded live at the Capital Center, Landover, MD. August 20, 1974.

CSN&Y

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colored pencil, los angeles, 2021

After a painting by Jan Bogaerts

Inside of me there's an impressionist lying in wait.

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Random pencil drawings

pencil drawings

Los Angeles and Calbayog City

Just for fun.

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Beautiful things

Black sharpie on beige paper

Rosemead 2012

"Dream pretty dreams of beautiful things,

let all the skies surround you.

Swim with the swans and believe that upon

some glorious dawn love will find you"

Townes van Zandt

This drawing just came out of nowhere. Like a mystical gift, one day it just happened.

Greedy Jones

VERNON MAYTONE

Vernon Maytone

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Utah Desert

colored pencil on paper

Los Angeles 2014

When I was a young boy in the 1950s we lived in Utah for a while. I was maybe six or seven. We, my friends and I, would go for long walks through the beautiful high plains desert. In the distance we would here the deep booms of atomic bombs being tested across the mountains in Nevada. No shit. What a memory.

Even with the bombs though, the American Southwest was so beautiful. I miss it dearly.

Fast forward sixty five years. I now live on a small island in the Philippines. On the other side of the earth. Hiding.

In the distance I can hear roosters crowing and dogs barking.

So strange.

Philippine Sea

colored pencil on paper

Los Angeles 2014

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going home

colored pencil and pen on paper

Los Angeles 2018

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everyone rushes around in a great panic as if it is necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

-- Alan Watts

colored pencil and ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2018

black sharpie

Hollywood 2018

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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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