Snail Shells

Recent drawings

Nagai - Stronger

watercolor, ballpoint pen, colored pencils

Calbayog City 2024

It was a good week

Chezidek - Beat Them

colored pencil drawings, calbayog city, 2025

Making these drawings, this past week, has been all together liberating. I am taking a short break while I consider what colors to explore next.

That photo is me in 2014.

full sun photo

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So very lonely

Black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2016

De Kooning once said, "In order for art to work the finished piece needs to at least look better than the original blank canvas."

I think de Kooning said that.

Maybe I imagined it.

In that case I said it.

I don't know.

The Rolling Stones- 2000 Lightyears from home

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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In that case

Black sharpie on cardboard reverse image

Monrovia 1997

1997 was a pivotal year for me.

1997 was the year I handed my resignation letter to my asshole boss.

When I handed it to him you want to know what he did?

He quietly read my letter then he looked up and became furious and screamed,

"Well, in that case YOU'RE FIRED!!!"

I kid you not.

In my life there was a before and there has been an after to that moment.

Calbayog City 2024

Besame Mucho

colored pencil & pen, calbayog city, 2025

Not gonna lie, I really like this one. It has a deeply blue, blue, and the red.. the red was an accident. I love accidents.

Lisa Ono - Besame Mucho

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Uncomfortably human

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

Self-concious raw desire is uncomfortably human - Anon

Sean, my 8yo son, told me this is the worst drawing I have ever done.

He might be right, but what does that mean̈?

Estas Tonne - Message from the stars

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some random old drawings

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Niney I soon know - One foot Sammy

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A new chance

Ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2014

I was in a lecture once and the professor asked,

"Why are babies young?"

That's a pretty deep question if you think about it.

How is it that the weathered old cells of two adults can come together to create a fresh new life?

The professor went on to give a scientific explaination which to me just lost the plot.

To me, when conception occurs a new reality begins.

A new miracle.

A new chance.

The next generation

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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