RECENT DRAWINGS

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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American Tune

Paul Simon - American Tune

"The best laid schemes o' mice and men,

Gang aft agley."

-- Robert Burns To a mouse

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After Munch

(Augustus Pablo - Dub Organizer)

pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2023

I absolutely adore Edvard Munch but here's the deal.. If you search for Munch's art you're going to get like a million copies of "The Scream" which is a great painting sure, but there is so much more to Edvard Munch than "The Scream."

Anyway, IMHO, Edvard Munch is a wonderful artist and if you like drawing he is certainly someone well worth studying.

Study for Madonna

Edvard Munch. 1894

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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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I just want to say thank you. Your art offers a different perspective. I haven't had very much energy lately, but scrolling through tumblr and seeing your latest piece. I don't know what to say. Just a small glimpse and I was obsessed. It reminded me of the fact that everything large achievement is composed of a multitude of small goals. Art can change the direction of the world, and yours shifted my course a little.

Wow, thank you anonymous, you just made my day. - Patrick

Imaginary can

Ballpointpen & alcohol in my moleskine

Los Angeles 2018

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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Black sharpie in my moleskin

Earwax cafe Chicago, 2000

Is the Earwax cafe still open? Anyone in Chicago? I used to go there and drink esspresso coffee and doodle in my moleskin.

Sipping a warm cup of coffee while just outside there'd be a raging cold midwestern blizzard. I loved Chicago.

Earwax Cafe, Chicago

from my moleskine

Earwax Cafe, Chicago 2000

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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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Shadow games

Los Incas - La Mandorle

The other night I saw some neighborhood kids playing shadow games. It was so beautiful.

Calbayog City, Philippines

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Can't seem to make you mine

THE SEEDS

Back before the Sex Pistols, before the Ramones, before the New York Dolls, back before all of them, The Seeds were Punk.

The Seeds were Punk not so much because of their music but because The Seeds were... Punks.

In 1966 The Seeds owned Sunset Blvd.

"Come back baby, cuz I'm all alone"

OMG my father hated these guys hahaha

The Seeds

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