Pencil Drawing, Calbayog City, 2024

T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Nougbo Vehou

This really blows me away. Going back I'm finding that I like my colored pieces better in black & white than in the original color. SMH

This really bothers me.

Next day...

It's not that I don't like the drawing's color. It's more that the drawing becomes lost in the colors and it becomes flat

Back when I did this drawing I wanted my drawings to have no there there. Nothing to suggest a shape other than the image in its entirely.

But now looking at it I want something to define something.

I'm going to do another one of these to show you what I mean.

Kind of Pink

Colored pencil

Los Angeles 2015

midnites

watercolor and pen, westwood, 1985

I used to have bad insomnia. I'd toss and turn in the middle of the night and finally, in frustration, I'd roll over and draw. I kept a drawing lying next to me just for this purpose. In the middle of the night I'd drawn until sleep came. The above drawing is one such piece. Slowly drawn in the wee hours of the morning during bouts of insomnia.

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Egon Schiele

ball point pen drawing in my moleskine

Tierra Mia Coffee, Echo Park, 2016

I love Egon Schiele. I made this drawing after one of his self portraits while sitting in a little cafe called Tierra Mia Coffee in Echo Park, Los Angeles.

Btw, Tierra Mia Coffee serves a Mexican Style Hot Chocolate that is perhaps the best hot chocolate on Earth. It's so delicious. Rich and creamy with little bits of chocolate. Seriously.

It's a nice place to draw too.

Here's another drawing I did that same morning.

Egon Schiele

pen drawing in my moleskine

Tierra Mia Coffee, Echo Park, 2016

Thank you Tierra Mia Coffee. I miss that place.

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Lather - Jefferson Airplane

Black sharpie on paper

Hollywood 2018

I have this idea for a science fiction story.

In the story during an unborn child's nine months in the womb, the child's entire life is slowly played out for them like in a movie so that by the time they are born they know everything that is going happen to them in their life.

In the story then when the mother is about to give birth, the unborn child faces the opening cervix and looks out to their inevitable future with dread.

Being born then wipes away all memory of this.

But each person then leads their lives with the uneasy feeling that everything is a forgone conclusion.

Second thoughts

Black sharpie on paper

Hollywood 2018

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Greedy Jones

VERNON MAYTONE

Vernon Maytone

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I tried so hard and got so far

But in the end it doesn't even matter

I had to fall to lose it all

And in the end it doesn't even matter

Linkin Park - In The End (Mellen Gi & Tommee Profitt Remix)

Dédicace

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Un Amour Perdu

Depuis

Bien longtemps

Time is something

Black sharpie on board

Monrovia 1996

Time is something that happens on the outside but not on the inside. On the inside we are always.. always.

Eternity is not something we earn.

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Unicorns and Jellyfish

colored pencil, Monrovia, 1997

This morning Sean, my nine year old son asked me,

"Dad, what's more believable, a unicorn or a jellyfish?"

My son's gone to school now but I'm still mulling that one over.

Here's a couple of older drawings.

Happy Friday.

still life

pencil drawing, Hollywood, 2017

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After Egon Schiele

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Egon Schiele was the bad boy of European art but he drew like an angel. Redrawing his art is a double edged sword. I learn so much from his drawing but I am forever humbled by his genius. He created masterpieces while still in his teens. He gave us nearly 4000 works of art and then he died tragically at 28. Damn.

After Egon Schiele

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

After Egon Schiele

Black Sharpie

2016

pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

We are reborn in our children.

pencil drawing in my Moleskine

Calbayog City 2024

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