Estas Tonne - Internal Flight

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

remember to forget

Dr Dre feat Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E.

When my drawings aren't talking to me I draw a face and meet someone new.

Jasmine, my five year old daughter, says it looks like Kermit the Frog.

Maybe...

ballpoint pen & pencil, calbayog city, 2025

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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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Little Boxes - Pete Seeger

Colored pencil & black sharpie

Los Angeles 2019

One day, a couple of years ago, I was looking around the apartment for something to draw when my eyes landed on three boxes, stacked upon one another, in the corner of our dining area.

So I quickly sketched them in pencil.

It was an OK drawing and I still have it lying around here somewhere but after I had drawn the boxes in pencil I got out my sharpie and redrew them in ink.

The result was nice..

Three Boxes

Black sharpie

Los Angeles 2019

This got me stared drawing boxes. I drew boxes at home. I drew boxes at work. I drew boxes in my moleskine. I drew boxes.

I soon cut the stack down to two boxes because it looked better.

Two Boxes

Black Sharpie

Hollywood 2019

I drew these boxes over and over. Like about thirty times.

More Boxes

black sharpie

Los Angeles 2019

Why did I keep draw these boxes?

Here's why.

When I look at these boxes I always get this erie feeling of...

Time is standing still.

I don't know why, but it gives me tickle.

Time is standing still

Black sharpie

Los Angeles 2019

Cigarettes after sex - Apocalypse

colored pencil and sharpie

Calbayog City 2024

The Tao is an image that has no form - Lao Tsu

There is danger on either side of pink - Anon

My 5 yo daughter asked for a drawing with pink in it so I drew this. She says she likes it but I think she likes her Legos more which is reasonable.

My brother, on the other hand, said he liked it more when it was unfinished and still had some white areas.

Maybe..

Luckily I took an in progress photo.

Time for coffee.

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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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Only with spring

Watercolor & coloredpencil

Monrovia 1996

Oh sweet spontaneous earth...

How often have religions taken

thee upon their scraggy knees

squeezing and buffeting thee

that thou mightest conceive

gods.

But true

to the incomparable couch of death

thy rythmic lover

thou answerest them

only with

Spring

e. e. cummings

E. E. Cummings

A curious snail

watercolor on paper

black and white photo

Los Angeles 2018

It's easy, at least for me, to imagine that snails have characters.

Maybe it's those eyes, poking out on their stocks, looking....

I wonder, do snails dream?

And if so, of what do they dream?

Do snails dream of wet concrete and fresh clover?

Do juvenile snails have wet dreams?

I've never thought of that before but why not?

Little snail nuts messing up the grass where they sleep...

So cute.

watercolor

Los Angeles 2018

Flowers

colored pencil, los angeles, 2018

Going through some old notebooks and I found this.

Tom Rush - No Regrets

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