Que Vida?

Que Vida?

Colored pencil on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Que Vida?

What life?

I drew this this morning, and all the while, I kept checking the terrible news. The Middle East is plunging into war.

And that, my friends, is why I and my family are on the other side of the planet.

Hiding.

Jeesh...

Que Vida - Love

I once knew a girl named Bambi

Pencil drawing on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

Lather - The Jefferson Airplane

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.

Darkness blackens even the night

8B pencil on paper

Calbayog City 2024

Daily drawing.

I am happiest when my fingers and eraser become black with pencil lead.

Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

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

Those thoughts followed him

pencil on newsprint

West Los Angeles 1977

In 1977 I was renting an apartment in West Los Angeles with a surfer friend of mine. Every morning we would wake up before dawn and drive up to Malibu to go surfing. When we would get to the beach it was usually still dark but never once did I see the waves empty. No matter how early we got there, there was always somebody already out there in the dark surfing.

Surfers...

I can remember so clearly hitting the surf in the pre-dawn darkness. We would dive headlong into the waves with our boards.

What a way to start the day.

I was doing a lot of pencil drawing back then. I drew on newsprint so most of the drawings have disintegrated with time. I did however manage to save this drawing. It was one of my favorites so I put it away in a folder and forgot about it for thirty odd years until I found it again. I just took this picture.

Brings back fond memories.

Dawn Patrol - The Eiminators