Beautiful Thing

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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One / One

Black sharpie on paper

Monrovia 1996

I drew this in 1996. I spent a few days on it and when it was done I didn't like it so I immediately put it in a drawer and forgot about.

Twenty-two years later, in 2018, I was going though old piles and I found it. I had completely forgotten about it. It was an amazing find. I had not seen or even thought about this drawing since the moment I had finshed it.

And, I'll be honest with you, I fell in love with it.

I fell in love with it as I would somone wonderful, someone who I had thoughtlessly lost, but who had then, by some miracle, come back into my life.

And forgiven me.

1/1 - Brian Eno

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The Boatman

pencil drawing on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

This is a second attempt at this drawing. I'm still too shy to add color. But black and white is cool for now.

The Boatman (detail)

Music - Bhagavan Das

Dr Dre - Whats the difference between me & you

black sharpie on paper

Miami 2009

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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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Purple Haze

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

In 1967, when Jimi Henrix appeared out of nowhere, it was like an apparition from some other world.

We were all thunderstruck.

Jimi Hendrix

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So beautiful

The Blacksmith (Live in Cotopaxi) Lady Moon

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

Drawings from yesterday

Ink and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

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Don't Let Babylon Use You

FRED LOCKS & the CREATION STEPPERS

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I've got five layers on this drawing. Im amazed the paper is holding up.

Thank you Arches paper & Prisma pencils.

Don't let Babylon use you

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Maritess

pencil drawing

Calbayog City, Philippines, 2024

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