THE VILLAGE

Esparanza

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

A new one. This time red, lavender and pink.

The pink bleeds off yellow when I rub it with alcohol. Strange. Another mystery for me to ponder.

I wake up early each morning and draw to the sounds of roosters crowing.

I draw, in solitude, drunk on colors and black coffee.

It's summertime here so the kids are on break. After everyone wakes up we go down to the beach and hang out.

Hermanos Gutierez - Esparanza

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Time is something

Black sharpie on board

Monrovia 1996

Time is something that happens on the outside but not on the inside. On the inside we are always.. always.

Eternity is not something we earn.

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The curious snail

ball point pen on paper

Los Angeles 2014

I like this drawing. If I was the snail I would like this drawing too.

Lavender Pink Tangerine

colored pencil & ballpoint pen, calbayog city, 2025

You see Doc, I tell myself that I'm not going to draw another one, and then, I just... do it.

Red, lavender, pink and tangerine.

C0l03 - Tezeta

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doodle edition

My art, really, arose from my doodlings during class as a boy. I mean seriously, what else are you supposed to do during those lectures. And you have a pen in your hand..

Later I doodled at work. Same game, different decade.

So here are some doodles I made at work. They were all drawn with whatever pen I was using that day on whatever paper I had in front of me.

I might have more lying around. I'll look in the closets..

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Doodle edition

My art arose from my doodling during class. I mean seriously, what else are you supposed to do during lectures? And you have a pen in your hand...

I later doodled at work. Same game different time zone.

So here are some doodles. I drew these particuar doodles at work. They were drawn with whatever pen I had at the moment on whatever paper was handy.

My ever present coffee cup staring at me on my office desk.

As a side note I have many things to be thankful for and coffee is high up o the list.

"Time to save time" God help us.

I like this one.

I like some of my doodles as much as my larger pieces. I drew this one on a Japanese post card. Not really sure why I had a Japanese post card.

I'll post more doodles later.

Cheers.

I don't know anything

MAD SEASON

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

Lèt me ask you something. What are you going to do in the future when every transaction we make is done on line and someone who you can't even talk to decides you can't do something?

Wondering outloud for a friend.

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Coral reef

colored pencil (inverse colors)

Los Angeles 2015

For years I worked pretty much exclusively in black and white using a black sharpie. Then one day, around 2011, I showed a bunch of my pieces to my brother who looked at them and simply said,

"Your work needs more color."

Pissed. Me. Off...

In anger I went out and bought a bunch of colored pencils and had at it.

I'm really glad he said that to me.

Arizona

colored pencil (inverse colors)

Los Angeles 2016

Cans

watercolor and pen, los angeles, 2015

These will look nice here.

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Snails

pen drawings

Los Angeles 2017-2018

Do snails dream? And if snails dream, of what do they dream?

Do snails dream of wet clover and fresh lettuce?

Do adolescent snails have wet dreams and leave little snail nuts on the morning grass?

So cute.

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