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Patrick Elvin

Time is something that happens on the outside but not on the inside. Currently 73. Living on a small island in the Philippines.

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Que Vida?

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

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1 year ago
Pencil Drawing In My Moleskin

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

pencil drawing in my Moleskin

Calbayog City 2024


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10 months ago

Only with spring

Watercolor & coloredpencil

Monrovia 1996

Oh sweet spontaneous earth...

How often have religions taken

thee upon their scraggy knees

squeezing and buffeting thee

that thou mightest conceive

gods.

But true

to the incomparable couch of death

thy rythmic lover

thou answerest them

only with

Spring

e. e. cummings

Only With Spring

E. E. Cummings


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11 months ago
Black Sharpie In My Moleskin

Black sharpie in my moleskin

Earwax cafe Chicago, 2000

Is the Earwax cafe still open? Anyone in Chicago? I used to go there and drink esspresso coffee and doodle in my moleskin. Sipping a warm cup of coffee while just outside the window there'd be a roaring cold midwestern blizzard. I loved Chicago.

Black Sharpie In My Moleskin

Earwax Cafe, Chicago

Black Sharpie In My Moleskin

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11 months ago
Nothing Else Matters

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

Nothing Else Matters

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11 months ago
A Young Woman With Bangs

A young woman with bangs

8B pencil and finger rubbing

Calbayog City 2024

Bangs make me weak at the knees.

A Young Woman With Bangs

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

Here's the initial sketch

A Young Woman With Bangs

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