Natural Progression

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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Recent drawings

Nagai - Stronger

watercolor, ballpoint pen, colored pencils

Calbayog City 2024

Flowers for Jasmine

black sharpie and crayon

Westwood 1988

I started out long before I began...

The thing about this particular pattern is that I never really figured out what I was doing. I just drew, and the pieces just fit.

... actually, I never really even began...

This one I added color. I had some old crayons lying around and, it turned out nicely.

... things just somehow fit together.

Amber Leigh Irish - Yellow

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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

Carrickfergus

Pen and watercolor on paper

Los Angeles 2016

Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus, Only for nights in Ballygrand, I would swim over the deepest ocean, The deepest ocean to be by your side.

But the water's wide and I can not swim over And neither have I wings to fly. I wish I could meet a handsome boatman To ferry me over to my love and die.

Irish folk song

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self portrait

ballpoint pen, los angeles, 2018

I drew this one day looking at the mirror.

My wife said it looks just like me.

Not certain what to make of that.

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Today

colored pencil & pen, monrovia 1996

I started drawing these swirls. And then I went nuts drawing swirls. I must have drawn 50 of these swirl drawings. I drew them at work and at home. On my napkin at the restaurant. It was all I wanted to do. One day a friend came to my place. When she saw I was drawing another swirl drawing she made this sound of exacerbation and said, "Pat! what's going on?"

Tbh I felt a little embarassed. So I moved on to drawing squares...

I still have a bunch of those swirl drawings.

I really like this one.

detail

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High tide

watercolor and pen on crepe paper

Santa Barbara 1980

I have had a life long love affair with the Pacific Ocean. I did this painting years ago when I was living in Santa Barbara on the California coast. We'd go on long road trips up the coast highway. Have you ever spent the night on the beach at Big Sur? Put it on your bucket list.

I now live on the other side of the ocean on a small island in the Philippines. We go on road trips up through the coconut jungle mountains to this little beach town we know. The northern coast of the island faces the Pacific Ocean. The deep blues of the tropical sea are literally intoxicating.

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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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