We fall astray when we deny nature. 74. Living on a small island in the Philippines.
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black sharpie on bond paper
Hollywood 2018
When your mind wanders, follow it.
black sharpie on bond paper
Hollywood 2018
black sharpie on bond paper
Hollywood 2018
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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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Human behavior
Human Behavior - Bjork
pencil drawing in my moleskine
Calbayog City 2024
"There's definitely definitely definitely no logic"
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RECENT DRAWINGS
Pencil drawing from my moleskine.
Calbayog City 2024
Leonard Cohen - Joan of Arc
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"in this immense drama we are all unknowing poets" - Alan Watts
pen drawing on board
Rosemead, CA 2012
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Paint tube #1
pencil on newsprint
Venice California 1975
I love finding old drawings. These are a couple of drawings I did almost fifty years ago. I remember drawing them quite clearly. I was living at the time with some friends in an old house in Venice Beach, California. I drew these one day sittling at the kitchen table.
I just took these photos today. The newsprint is about ready to fall apart but the drawings themselves look fresh. I'm amazed that we're all still intact.
Paint tube #2
pencil on newsprint
Venice, California 1975
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The First Time
The first time ever I saw your face
Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack
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THE VILLAGE
Mano Chao - Minha Galera
I've written about this before but a little over two years ago we left America and moved to the Philippines.
It's so beautiful here.
We live in the port town of a small island, but my wife originally came from a little village deep in the mountains. It's a small village of about 200 people surroundedby coconut jungle.
I love visiting the village.
Looking down the village's main walk way during fiesta.
Close by there's an amazing waterfall we like to bath in.
Like I say, I love it here.
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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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Beautiful thing
Black sharpie on beige paper
Rosemead 2012
This drawing came out of nowhere. Like a mystical gift, one day it just happened.
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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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Song for a winter night
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
If I could only have you near To breathe a sigh or two I would be happy just to hold the hands I love And to be once again with you To be once again with you
Gordon Lightfoot
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Pencil drawings
pencil drawings
Calbayog City, Philippines
2024
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America - Ray Charles
Oh beautiful for heros proved,
in liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved,
and mercy more than life.
America,
America,
May God thy gold refine.
Til all success be nobleness
And every gain devine.
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Pedro's artwork
Pedro UK - Relax
black sharpie on paper
Hollywood 2019
I've been doing some artwork for my musician friend Pedro UK. Some of them have turned out nicely.
Here are some of the images we used for his music.
More of Pedros music here:
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doodle edition
My art, really, arose from my doodlings during class as a boy. I mean seriously, what else are you supposed to do during those lectures. And you have a pen in your hand..
Later I doodled at work. Same game, different decade.
So here are some doodles I made at work. They were all drawn with whatever pen I was using that day on whatever paper I had in front of me.
I might have more lying around. I'll look in the closets..
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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
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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Dr Dre - Whats the difference between me & you
black sharpie on paper
Miami 2009
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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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Flying - The Beatles
Deep in the Philippines we're having a typhoon. Howling wind. Torrential rain. Power out. We ate our dinner by candle light. The four of us huddled around our meal while typhoon chaos ensued outside.
Kind of fun 😀
pencil drawing
Calbayog City 2024
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Carrickfergus
pen and watercolor
Los Angeles 2016
Carrickfergus
I wish I was in Carrickfergus,
If only for the night in Ballygrand,
I would swim over the deepest ocean,
The deepest ocean for my love to find.
But the sea is wide and I can not swim over
And neither have I wings to fly.
If I could find me a handsome boatman
To ferry me over to my love and die.
Irish folk song
Carrickfergus - Headland
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David Bowie
David Bowie - Heros
I don't speak German, but somehow, this song, sung in German, talks to me.
David Bowie
Time and Entropy
black sharpie on manila paper
Miami 2009
Time and entropy arise mutually like a boat and its wake.
Entropy is fractal which means that time never began.
So relax.
Relax
black sharpie on manila paper
Miami 2009
R.E.M. -Losing My Religion
I freaking love this song.
Life is bigger
pencil drawing
Calbayog City 2024
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Soul Syndicate Band
Soul Syndicate Band feat. Tony Tuff
From the movie: Words, Sound and Power
Soul Syndicate Band
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Bulusan Volcano, Philippines
"Daddy, " Sean, my 8 yo son asked me, "Why are sea songs so happy when there are all those sunken ships at the bottom of the ocean?"
I've been thinking about that recently.
We went on a road trip this last weekend up to the northern coast of the island. We camped out on the beach and in the morning, across the sea, Bulusan volcano loomed large, shrouded in clouds.
I drank my coffee at sunrise by the water. A crane came by and hung out with me for a while.
Akae Beka - Manger
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Lemons
Lemons
pencil drawing
Los Angeles 2019
Lemons
ballpoint pen
Los Angeles 2019
A shameless plug for my Instagram
ballpoint pen
Los Angeles 2019
Lemons
ballpoint pen
Los Angeles 2019
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