Cast Your Fate To The Wind

Cast your fate to the wind

Cast your fate to the wind - Shelby Flint

"The empty sky is my best friend."

Occationally in this dear life there comes a moment when we can either sit tight and watch, or stand up and throw ourselves head long into the chaos.

Daily drawing

4B pencil on watercolor paper

Calbayog City, Philippines, 2024

Daydream

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

From my morning drawing. I tried posting this on Instagram and I got an immediate full screen message telling me to delete it or else!

Community guidelines..

Kind of funny.

She come in colors

Colored pencil on paper

Calbayog City 2024

"Dad, what do you call a solar system without a sun?" Sean, my seven year old son asked me.

It was evening time and we were walking into town to get a snack.

I thought about it for a moment and couldn't think of a fast comeback so I said, "I don't know, what do you call it?" and braced myself.

"A system!" he said and looked up at me grinning. "Ya get it?" He asked and laughed.

Got to admit that made me smile.

It's about four blocks from our home to our town's downtown area. Along the way I stopped off at an ATM machine to get some cash.

When I got the money my son said to me,

"You mean you can just get money from a machine?!?!"

"Yah," I said not really thinking about it.

"Then why don't homeless people do that!!!" he asked in astonishment.

I started to answer him and then I remembered that thats basically what the government does....

I stopped walking and looked up into the sky.

Waiting for an answer that didn't come.

Calbayog City 2024

She comes in colors - Love

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

Who are we? What are we? Why are we?

Pencil drawing after Paul Gauguin

Calbayog City 2024

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal!" - Pablo Picasso

Paul Gauguin was a force of nature. I can spend entire days reading about his life. And his art... I feed off his art.

And being that I am only a good artist I copy his drawings.

Well, now wait a second.. In my defense I don't copy so much as I "interpret."

There's a difference. 🤣

I based the above drawing on this piece by the master.

Mother and Daughter

Paul Gauguin 1891

And...

I got the title for the drawing from Gauguin's imortal questions:

"Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?" - Paul Gauguin

Love you Paul

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