Some Random Old Drawings

Newly arrived kittens

watercolor and ballpointpen

Calbayog City 2024

Our neighbor's cat recently had a litter of kittens, and being as our neighbor can't afford to buy cat food, our house has now been invaded by five hungry kittens. The kitten energy is infectious.

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pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

For the past two days I've been playing with the zygomatic process. It gives some drama to a drawing. And I've always thought it had the coolest name in all of human anatomy.

This morning as I lay with my wife she thought I was massaging her head. And I was. But I was also appreciating her zygomatic process.

pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

Darkness blackens even the night

8B pencil on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Daily drawing.

I am happiest when my fingers and eraser become black with pencil lead.

Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

A blue, so long ago

colored pencil and black sharpie

Calbayog City 2024

The Philippine Sea is a deep almost violet blue.

It came to me in a dream once.

And now I'm here.

But I'm not there.

And isn't that where I've always been?

This drawing is pretty much done, but it's not done.

In any case, I've moved on to the next piece.

Write that on my tombstone.

Samar, Philippines 2024

Akae Beka - The Earth is the Lord

Black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2015

I like this drawing.

I know the signature is upside down.

But so is the drawing.

Destiny - Zero 7

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Neil Young: Fireplace

Those thoughts followed him

pencil on newsprint

West Los Angeles 1977

In 1977 I was renting an apartment in West Los Angeles with a surfer friend of mine. Every morning we would wake up before dawn and drive up to Malibu to go surfing. When we would get to the beach it was usually still dark but never once did I see the waves empty. No matter how early we got there, there was always somebody already out there in the dark surfing.

Surfers...

I can remember so clearly hitting the surf in the pre-dawn darkness. We would dive headlong into the waves with our boards.

What a way to start the day.

I was doing a lot of pencil drawing back then. I drew on newsprint so most of the drawings have disintegrated with time. I did however manage to save this drawing. It was one of my favorites so I put it away in a folder and forgot about it for thirty odd years until I found it again. I just took this picture.

Brings back fond memories.

Dawn Patrol - The Eiminators

ROCKERS, the movie

If you've never watched it, watch it.

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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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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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