Space Oddity

black sharpie on paper

Miami 2009

I lived in Miami for a few years. I rented a small apartment right on the bay. It was lovely. Land crabs and iguanas used to wander around the yard. Beat that!

Miami has some of the most beautiful beaches on earth. White sands and tropical blue water. I used to hang out at beach cafes and draw.

Back then my main drawing tool was the black ultrafine sharpie. I was into drawing quilts. Crisp black and while images drawn off the cuff.

Here's another one.

Hermanos Gutierrez - Hijos del sol

black sharpie on manila paper

Miami 2010

Bay Harbor beach, Miami, 2009

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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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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

The Boatman

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

My wife is fixing a big Thanksgiving feast. I can smell the food cooking downstairs.

We live in a small port city and my wife went down to the docks early this morning and picked up an amazing assortment of fresh sea food. Crabs, scallops, muscles, octopus, milk fish, shrimp, along with assorted fresh vegetables. This is going to be a feast.

I was admiring the bounty of sea food with my eight year old son, Sean.

"Daddy?" Sean asked me out of the blue, "Have you ever noticed that 'SHELLFISH' sounds a lot like 'SELFISH'?"

I love it when he says things like that.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone 💓

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i hope I'm this cool when I'm your age

Thank you, Anonymous. Life is a mysterious journey. Just enjoy it and whatever you do, don't let go.

Mysterious nature

Ballpoint pen on a post card

Los Angeles 2014

Apocalypse

Cigarettes after sex - Apocalypse,

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

Once upon a time we were alive,

and for just that moment,

we looked around, in awe.

Calbayog City, 2025

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A Young Filipina

pencil drawing on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

The Philippines and the Filipino people are so beautiful. If you ever visit the Philippines come to the provinces. Life out here is simple and natural. I love it.

I'm doing my pencil drawings on watercolor paper. It gives them a rich texture and it allows me to work them heavily with the eraser.

I took two pictures of this drawing. I can't decide which one to post so I'll post both

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colored pencil, los angeles, 2021

After a painting by Jan Bogaerts

Inside of me there's an impressionist lying in wait.

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Dust in the Wiind

KANSAS

pencil drawings inverse color

Calbayog City, 2022

I loved this song when it came out. I loved it as an existentialist. That life is it's own meaning. And even that meaning is transient. I loved it as a deep thinking 26 year old.

Let me tell you, this song hits way different at age 74.

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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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