Nuff Respect For Donovan

not only by words

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

A man can live for a hundred years or more

A hundred years and he's scored

Not only by the words of his mouth

But the meditations of his heart

-- The Gatherers

The Gatherers - Words of your mouth

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Sleep

watercolor, los angeles, 2016

When I can't sleep I close my eyes and visualize drawing. Sometimes I visualize drawing with the pencil. Other times I see the brush laying down pigments. At some point my mind becomes interested in the drawing and I begin to dream...

watercolor, los angeles, 2016

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Human behavior

Human Behavior - Bjork

pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2024

"There's definitely definitely definitely no logic"

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Wicked game - Chris Isaak

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

Today's drawing.

When I finished this drawing I had ink all over my hands and rubbing alcohol all over my lap... and a new face staring at me.

Art is magic.

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Mountain woman

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

I've settled into a routine of drawing every morning. When I start a new drawing, I'm always fearful of failure, but usually something comes out of it. My wife says this drawing looks like one of the tribal women who live up in the mountains here in the Philippines. I wasn't trying to draw that, but I'll take it. Actually, I'm just trying to learn how to draw faces. And play with composition. This drawing looks a bit cartoonish, but I like where we're going.

pencil and watercolor

Calbayog City 2024

Daily drawing.

The masters make it all look so easy. Drives me nuts. 🤣

6B pencil in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024

A young woman with bangs

8B pencil and finger rubbing

Calbayog City 2024

Bangs make me weak at the knees.

I keep tinkering with this drawing. This is where its at now.

Here's the initial sketch

Moi DTLA

If I remember right, this photo was taken sometime around 2013. I was in the CR at a gas station near downtown Los Angeles and decided to take a quick selfie..

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Carrickfergus

pen and watercolor

Los Angeles 2016

Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus,

If only for the night in Ballygrand,

I would swim over the deepest ocean,

The deepest ocean for my love to find.

But the sea is wide and I can not swim over

And neither have I wings to fly.

If I could find me a handsome boatman

To ferry me over to my love and die.

Irish folk song

Carrickfergus - Headland

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Beautiful thing

Black sharpie on beige paper

Rosemead 2012

This drawing came out of nowhere. Like a mystical gift, one day it just happened.

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