Remember To Forget

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.

some random old drawings

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Niney I soon know - One foot Sammy

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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

Non-thinking

Alan Watts - Non-thinking

black pen, monrovia, 1996

Alan Watts

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midnites

watercolor and pen, westwood, 1985

I used to have bad insomnia. I'd toss and turn in the middle of the night and finally, in frustration, I'd roll over and draw. I kept a drawing lying next to me just for this purpose. In the middle of the night I'd drawn until sleep came. The above drawing is one such piece. Slowly drawn in the wee hours of the morning during bouts of insomnia.

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Hail the King

AKAE BEKA

Time passes slowly here in the provinces.

Each day I read the news coming out of America and I thank God I got out of there.

Calbayog City, Philippines, 2024

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The fallen fruit

black sharpie

Los Angeles 2017

The things that we are not allowed to talk about are pretty much always true. Prove me wrong. Likewise, fruit is sweetest just when it is about to fall.

If Eve had waited for the apple to fall would she still have sinned?

Black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2015

I like this drawing.

I know the signature is upside down.

But so is the drawing.

Destiny - Zero 7

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Mountain woman

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

I've settled into a routine of drawing every morning. When I start a new drawing, I'm always fearful of failure, but usually something comes out of it. My wife says this drawing looks like one of the tribal women who live up in the mountains here in the Philippines. I wasn't trying to draw that, but I'll take it. Actually, I'm just trying to learn how to draw faces. And play with composition. This drawing looks a bit cartoonish, but I like where we're going.

Deep enough

black sharpie

Los Angeles 2012

If you look deep enough into space, you can see the universe as it was just after the beginning of time.

Before any of this shit happened.

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