Expressionism - Blog Posts

Garganta, 2024

I didn’t disappear, although I quite distant lately.

I'm exploring crayon techniques, pastels and wax both, so have been spending less time on digital. I think the results will be seen later.

More and more often I am puzzled by the problem of colour reproduction on different screens. Probably not the newest feeling here, however, as I think I have managed to reach some kind of consensus with the work intact.

Murdermaus! Same expressions, yes?

Bank Vole/skogssork. Värmland, Sweden (April 6, 2024).

remember to forget

Dr Dre feat Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E.

When my drawings aren't talking to me I draw a face and meet someone new.

Jasmine, my five year old daughter, says it looks like Kermit the Frog.

Maybe...

ballpoint pen & pencil, calbayog city, 2025

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Meanwhile, far away

Checking out the piggery

Mano Chao - Minha Galera

My life has been a random path governed by a combination of occational planning, frequent accidents, and unexpected surprise parties.

My life has been a random path that has ultimately lead me to the deep provinces of the Philippines. Here I live, with my family, an unknown artist, gone native.

pen & colored pencil, calbayog, 2024

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to dust we return

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2024

By the sweat of your brow

will you have food to eat

until you return to the ground.

from which you were made.

For you were made from dust,

and to dust you shall return.

-- Genisis 3:19

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2024

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Pride of man

QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE

watercolor and ballpoint pen, calbayog city, 2024

For those who place their faith in fire,

In fire their faith shall be repaid.

Oh God, pride of man,

Broken into dust again.

-- Hamilton Camp

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Flowers

colored pencil, los angeles, 2018

Going through some old notebooks and I found this.

Tom Rush - No Regrets

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Frozen Silence

LIFE

watercolor & ballpoint pen, calbayog city, 2024

Eternity can never be earned. It must be accepted.

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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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recent drawing

pencil drawing, Calbayog City, 2025

Beauty and love remain undefined.

And that's best.

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drawing

pencil drawings, Calbayog City, 2024/25

I try to draw a little bit every day. It's good for the soul. And it's free.

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Cans

watercolor and pen, los angeles, 2015

These will look nice here.

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the mind's eye

The river and the moon

colored pencil and pen, Los Angeles, 2018

If I could only show you my dreams. Listen to me, I dream in deep blue. Deep deep blue.

Visceral, almost violet blue.

And reds.

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Next door

pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2024

"Our lives are what we do while we're dreaming about doing something else." John Lennon

Massive Attack - The man next door

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Visions of Johanna

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet.

We're sitting here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it.

-- Bob Dylan

Visions of Johanna- Bob Dylan

pencil drawings

Calbayog City 2024

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Feel Good Inc

Happy New Years to everyone on Earth.

I'm lying here recovering from four days of bing excess. The Filipinos like to stay up all night eating, drinking whiskey and singing karaoke and God bless them.

Whew.

I've been on Tumblr for a year now. Thank you everyone for all your likes and follows. Here is a recap of some of the drawings I have shared. The dates of the pieces range from 1977 to 2024. In no particular order.

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

"The best is yet to come" - Frank Sinatra

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Like a Stone

AUDIOSLAVE

The past and the future don't exist. They literally don't exist.

What does exist is this thin sliver of a moment that we call now. Just now, wedged between a past and a future that aren't even real. I know this. I know this..

But tell me, why is the past so real in my dreams?

I woke up. Outside in the distance I heard roosters crowin̈g, and I remembered where I was. I felt my dreams vanishing into nowhere. Kind mercy.

Dim morning light gently poured in through the curtains casting gray shadows across our bed. I stretched out my legs and gave my entire body a deep stretch, squeezing out the last of the demons. I looked up at the clock. 5 am.

We sleep together on a huge bed. My wife and myself with our two young kids nestled in between us. Piled together. Filipino style.

I quietly made my way over to my wife's side of the bed and climbed in with her.

Early morning is our time.

Time is real. I know it is. But it plays with me.

Time is something that happens on the outside but on the inside. inside our minds, there is no time. On the inside there is only now.

Now, is eternity.

It's all we know.

Wedged in between a past and a future that aren't even real.

Calbayog City 2024

pencil drawing in my moleskine

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Rasta no born

SANG HUGH

My drawings are what I did while I was drawing.

Various 1986 - 2024

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Infinite Ovum

black sharpie

Los Angeles 2013

Did you know that the ovum that went on to become you was quietly resting in your mother's overy when your mother was a fetus inside your grandmothers womb?

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Human behavior

Human Behavior - Bjork

pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2024

"There's definitely definitely definitely no logic"

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RECENT DRAWINGS

Pencil drawing from my moleskine.

Calbayog City 2024

Leonard Cohen - Joan of Arc

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Pencil drawings

pencil drawings

Calbayog City, Philippines

2024

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Flying - The Beatles

Deep in the Philippines we're having a typhoon. Howling wind. Torrential rain. Power out. We ate our dinner by candle light. The four of us huddled around our meal while typhoon chaos ensued outside.

Kind of fun 😀

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

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Recent drawings

Nagai - Stronger

watercolor, ballpoint pen, colored pencils

Calbayog City 2024

Midnite - Jah umbrella

watercolor and ballpoint pen b&w

"Look into your eyes, see you are infinity" Vaughn Benjamin, Midnite/Akae Beka

Supplication

watercolor and ballpoint pen

Calbayog City 2024

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We, in this imminent fall, still dream

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

Today's drawing

Cigarettes after sex - Opera House

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ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

I tinkered with this drawing a lot. To the point where the paper is falling apart.

Audioslave - I am the Highway

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Surrender

pen and ink on drawing paper

Calbayog City 2024

The ink does what it will. I just try to help.

Lost cause - Beck

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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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Reading tea leaves

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

These drawings are like reading tea leaves. I draw a bit then I splash alcohol on it and see what the smearing tells me to do next. This particular drawing I actually made on the backside of another drawing using the bleed through. Really fun when a face starts looking back at me..

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