A Curious Snail

She come in colors

Colored pencil on paper

Calbayog City 2024

"Dad, what do you call a solar system without a sun?" Sean, my seven year old son asked me.

It was evening time and we were walking into town to get a snack.

I thought about it for a moment and couldn't think of a fast comeback so I said, "I don't know, what do you call it?" and braced myself.

"A system!" he said and looked up at me grinning. "Ya get it?" He asked and laughed.

Got to admit that made me smile.

It's about four blocks from our home to our town's downtown area. Along the way I stopped off at an ATM machine to get some cash.

When I got the money my son said to me,

"You mean you can just get money from a machine?!?!"

"Yah," I said not really thinking about it.

"Then why don't homeless people do that!!!" he asked in astonishment.

I started to answer him and then I remembered that thats basically what the government does....

I stopped walking and looked up into the sky.

Waiting for an answer that didn't come.

Calbayog City 2024

She comes in colors - Love

Youth and innocence

pencil drawing

Culver City 1977

This is an old one. 1977.

I can still remember drawing it. I was living at the time, with someone special, in an apartment in Culver City, with a big double bed. When she came home that night she loved it.

I stlll have this drawing tucked away in one of my drawers.

And I still have my memories tucked away in my mind.

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colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

A new one. I'm waiting for the first layer to dry but it's pretty now. More later.

Jacob Miller - Please Mr Officer

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black sharpie, Monrovia 1998

Another swirl drawing. I put those gaps in the lines just because I thought it would look cool but then the drawing took on a completely unexpected life. I was surprised.

Drawing those big swirls was a challenge. I remember feeling neurotic about them not being perfect. A couple of them still bug me. I'm a nut. :))

Orange Skies - Love

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Midnite - Jah umbrella

watercolor and ballpoint pen b&w

"Look into your eyes, see you are infinity" Vaughn Benjamin, Midnite/Akae Beka

Supplication

watercolor and ballpoint pen

Calbayog City 2024

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Next door

pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2024

"Our lives are what we do while we're dreaming about doing something else." John Lennon

Massive Attack - The man next door

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Non-thinking

Alan Watts - Non-thinking

black pen, monrovia, 1996

Alan Watts

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Greedy Babylon

Vernon Maytone feat. Prince Jazzbo

pencil drawings, calbayog city, 2025

Dateline 2025: War in Babylon.

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

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pencil drawing on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

I just drew this about 30 minutes ago. I know it's not a finished complete drawing but its finished enough that she's talking to me. And I'm listening to her.

I think I'm going to listen to her for a while. Tomorrow is another day.

Update:

I worked on her some more. She's still only half done but she's still talking to me so I'm going to quit while I'm ahead. And it's dinner time.

A young woman with a hair barrette

Nothing else matters - Metallica

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

I know I used this song just two posts ago but seriously folks, this song talks to me.

About this drawing.

I tinkered with this drawing all day today and it's not finished, but I am, so here's where it ends.

Not unlike a couple of relationships I've had.