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felt tip pen on cardboard

Alhambra 1988

I drew this at a party one night in 1988. There was a pen and a piece of cardboard on a table so I sat down and drew this, with everyone partying around me. It's filled with nervous energy because I was.

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License to kill

Life is so important

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Let's talk.

My 8 year old son asks me why we're living in the Philippines, and I really don't know what to tell him.

How do I make sense to him out of a world that no longer makes sense?

Richie Havens - License to Kill by Bob Dylan

Midnite - Envision

Life is so beautiful. And so amazing.

Lavender Pink Tangerine

colored pencil & ballpoint pen, calbayog city, 2025

You see Doc, I tell myself that I'm not going to draw another one, and then, I just... do it.

Red, lavender, pink and tangerine.

C0l03 - Tezeta

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Here's another one.

I should maybe do more of these.

Untitled

red and black sharpies on manila paper

Los Angeles 2018

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New Mexico

red and black sharpie

Somewhere in New Mexico 2010

In 2010 I moved from Miami Florida to Los Angeles California. It was a great trip. I packed all my stuff in my Honda and took two months off to drive across the country.

I wound up spending most of my time camping out in the mountains of New Mexico. I was traveling by mysef and let me tell you, sleeping alone in the pitch black darkness of the New Mexican wilderness was .... creepy.

Whoa.

I remember one day I decided to go for a hike. I walked up a mountain trail following a small creek into the wilderness. After I had wandered for a few miles I found, growing by the water, a wild cherry tree covered with cherries. The cherries were ripe and almost black and so sweet.

So I sat down by the creek and made a lunch of wild cherries and cool mountain stream water. In the middle of the wilderness. No one there except for me and God.

Me, somewhere in Nevada. 2010

During my trip I drew in my moleskine a lot. It was during that trip that I hit upon drawing with red and black sharpies. The above drawing is from my moleskine. I was feeling deep into the colors and imagery of the American Southwest.

I've returned to this motif several times since then. Here is one I did around 2016.

Arizona

red and black sharpie on manila paper

Los Angeles 2016

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Kitten invasion

watercolor and ballpoint pen

Calbayog City 2024

The kitten invasion continues. My wife set out a box of kitty litter and our new kittens have taken up residence. There's three of them. All greys with blue eyes. Our home is jumping with kitten energy.

Momma cat, a quiet calico I've known for a while, comes by periodically to check up on them.

Momma Cat

Last night I found out that they're all crazy for cooked shrimp. We have tnat in common.

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The curious snail

ball point pen on paper

Los Angeles 2014

I like this drawing. If I was the snail I would like this drawing too.

RIP Roberta Flack

Thank you for your beautiful music.

The First Time

The first time ever I saw your face

Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack

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Anne's hand

Tom Rush/Joni Mitchell - Urge for Going

Your hand is always in everything. Do you know that?

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

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Tropical diving

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I added more to this one. I love playing with these colored pencil pigments.

I brought heavy duty art paper from America that can put up with some abuse. I draw with the pencils and then rub them with alcohol. The colors smear around and blend together. When the alcohol dries I draw more and then smear again. It's so satisfying.

Lately I'm inspired by the blue of the Philippine sea near my home. I went diving a few days ago. The colors of the tropical waters were just like this drawing. As I dove around in a pastel coral forest I actually met a tropical sea snake. It calmly swam about ten feet from me. The snake, the coral forest and the tropical blue ocean were breathtaking.

Hermanos Gutierez - Esperanza

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