Lost In Time

pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

For the past two days I've been playing with the zygomatic process. It gives some drama to a drawing. And I've always thought it had the coolest name in all of human anatomy.

This morning as I lay with my wife she thought I was massaging her head. And I was. But I was also appreciating her zygomatic process.

pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

Nothing else matters

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Nothing else matters - Metallica

This song...

I have to speak vaguely about this one but there was a morning in 2002 in Chicago when I finally got to do something that I had been dreaming about doing for my entire like. It was a lovely fall morning. For the entire rest of the world it was just another morning but for me..

When I got in the car and started driving into town, this song came on the radio.

As I drove I turned up the volume, and tears ran down my face.

Never give up my friends.

By the way, I based this drawing on a photo of the lovely Jing Yu. Instagram @yuki_injo

Utah Desert

colored pencil on paper

Los Angeles 2014

When I was a young boy in the 1950s we lived in Utah for a while. I was maybe six or seven. We, my friends and I, would go for long walks through the beautiful high plains desert. In the distance we would here the deep booms of atomic bombs being tested across the mountains in Nevada. No shit. What a memory.

Even with the bombs though, the American Southwest was so beautiful. I miss it dearly.

Fast forward sixty five years. I now live on a small island in the Philippines. On the other side of the earth. Hiding.

In the distance I can hear roosters crowing and dogs barking.

So strange.

Philippine Sea

colored pencil on paper

Los Angeles 2014

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the mind's eye

The river and the moon

colored pencil and pen, Los Angeles, 2018

If I could only show you my dreams. Listen to me, I dream in deep blue. Deep deep blue.

Visceral, almost violet blue.

And reds.

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Simple life

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Everywhere I look in the Philippines there are women holding young children. It's so beautiful.

Some thoughts:

I had an art teacher once who told me to work fast. So I work fast. When I draw it's a battle between the pencil and the eraser. I draw and erase and draw and erase. What's left on the page is "the drawing." I had another art teacher once who said "I like to draw a lot of lines because I know at least one of them will be right." I think about that when I draw.

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Mommy outside the store yesterday

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Day to day living

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

pencil drawing Calbayog City 2024

Pencil drawing Calbayog City 2024

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I just want to say thank you. Your art offers a different perspective. I haven't had very much energy lately, but scrolling through tumblr and seeing your latest piece. I don't know what to say. Just a small glimpse and I was obsessed. It reminded me of the fact that everything large achievement is composed of a multitude of small goals. Art can change the direction of the world, and yours shifted my course a little.

Wow, thank you anonymous, you just made my day. - Patrick

Imaginary can

Ballpointpen & alcohol in my moleskine

Los Angeles 2018

HAPPY NEW YEARS !!!

Fasten your seat belts, here comes 2025.

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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

final layer

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I added another layer to this drawing, and I'm thinking it's done. Not gonna lie, I like it.

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Waiting for tomorrow

(Perfect day - Lou Reed)

Pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2024

This morning's drawing.

One advantage to being an unknown artist is that whenever I sit down to draw I can draw whatever the hell I want.

Young woman with a hair barrette

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Is this a shameless plug for my Instagram?

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