patrickelvinart
We fall astray when we deny nature. 74. Living on a small island in the Philippines.
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Besame Mucho
colored pencil & pen, calbayog city, 2025
Not gonna lie, I really like this one. It has a deeply blue, blue, and the red.. the red was an accident. I love accidents.
Lisa Ono - Besame Mucho
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remember to forget
Dr Dre feat Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E.
When my drawings aren't talking to me I draw a face and meet someone new.
Jasmine, my five year old daughter, says it looks like Kermit the Frog.
Maybe...
ballpoint pen & pencil, calbayog city, 2025
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ex moleskines
pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2023
Drawings from my molskines.
pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2022
pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025
Me, hanging out in Calbayog City, Philippines, 2023
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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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Relax
PEDRO UK
In the 1980's I played bass guitar in a reggae band. That was a trip let me tell you. To this day I still have dreams that I'm back in the studio with those guys.
Pedro, our riddim guitarist, and I are still in close contact. He continues to put out music from his home studio in Birmingham, England. He uses some of my art for his videos. This one looks nice.
More of Pedro's music here:
black sharpie, los angeles, 2022
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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Lavender
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
Ok, its done. I added one more layer of lavender just because lavender is lovely.
Even Sean, my nine year old son, and harshest critic, likes it. So.. it's done.
Leila Pinneiro - Chega de Saudada
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Don't Let Babylon Use You
FRED LOCKS & the CREATION STEPPERS
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
I've got five layers on this drawing. Im amazed the paper is holding up.
Thank you Arches paper & Prisma pencils.
Don't let Babylon use you
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Tropical diving
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
I added more to this one. I love playing with these colored pencil pigments.
I brought heavy duty art paper from America that can put up with some abuse. I draw with the pencils and then rub them with alcohol. The colors smear around and blend together. When the alcohol dries I draw more and then smear again. It's so satisfying.
Lately I'm inspired by the blue of the Philippine sea near my home. I went diving a few days ago. The colors of the tropical waters were just like this drawing. As I dove around in a pastel coral forest I actually met a tropical sea snake. It calmly swam about ten feet from me. The snake, the coral forest and the tropical blue ocean were breathtaking.
Hermanos Gutierez - Esperanza
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colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
A new one. I'm waiting for the first layer to dry but it's pretty now. More later.
Jacob Miller - Please Mr Officer
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Neil Young: Fireplace
Youth and innocence
pencil drawing
Culver City 1977
This is an old one. 1977.
I can still remember drawing it. I was living at the time, with someone special, in an apartment in Culver City, with a big double bed. When she came home that night she loved it.
I stlll have this drawing tucked away in one of my drawers.
And I still have my memories tucked away in my mind.
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Only Love Can Break Your Heart
CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG
I was a freshman in college when this song came out and, 55 years later, it still kills me.
Recorded live at the Capital Center, Landover, MD. August 20, 1974.
CSN&Y
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once ago
black sharpie in my moleskine
Hollywood, 2017
I drew this at work between clients.
Kendrick Lamar - LOVE (feat. Zacari)
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love hate
colored pencil & pen, calbayog, 2025
I gave up on this drawing, and then I liked it.
Well, I liked the blue part. To me, the entire drawing is there just to make the blue part look good.
And it does.
Then again, the red and yellow parts are nice too..
Everything in life comes down to red, yellow and blue. And browns.
It was my brother who pointed out to me that browns bring out color.
Which is true, on several levels.
I love this song by the way.
Manenberg Revisited - David Williams
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if you look
black sharpie
Miami 2010
If you look closely at the edge of a black hole it becomes obvious that the entire universe is made of little tiny things.
black sharpie on manila paper
Miami 2010
Meanwhile, far away
Checking out the piggery
Mano Chao - Minha Galera
My life has been a random path governed by a combination of occational planning, frequent accidents, and unexpected surprise parties.
My life has been a random path that has ultimately lead me to the deep provinces of the Philippines. Here I live, with my family, an unknown artist, gone native.
pen & colored pencil, calbayog, 2024
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And then I remembered
black sharpie on paper, rosemead, 2011
As I've been working on my latest drawings, I've been having this strange sense of having been here before. Not exactly deja vu but there was something. And then I remembered this drawing.
This drawing used to be my favorite drawing. I spent some time on it and looking at it now it still looks pretty cool. I hate to explain my art so I won't. It just, to me, looks cool.
When I drew it I was living in this cute little back house in Rosemead California surrounded by avacado trees. Not that that has anything to do with the drawing, but the avacados were great.
With my new drawings, if you look at them, it seems I have been unwitingly redrawing this older drawing, over again. Same thing only different.
Like I said it used to be my favorite drawing. Maybe deep down it still is..
Same thing only different
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
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ballpoint pen and alcohol
Calbayog City 2024
I drew this this morning.
It's ugly and it's beautiful.
Sufjan Stevens - The Transfiguration
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Urge for going
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
I really enjoyed making these drawings, and I think they're beautiful, but I'm feeling that urge to move on. Or maybe it's just that I want to do more but I'm not certain how.
Let me think.
In any case these were fun.
Budos Band - T.I.B.W.F
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T.I.B.W.F.
The BUDOS BAND
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
I was doing this one all in reds and yellows, and it was on fire!
So, I decided to give the fire a bit of definition with dark blue lines, and, I might have gotten a bit carried away with the blue, but then, and I'm not sure why I didn't expect this but, I got these lovely browns.
We call that serendipity.
As a side note, Sean, my nine year old son says this is the worst drawing I've ever made..
He's a harsh critic.
before the blue
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Sean wanted blue
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
Sean, my nine year old son, told me he wanted a drawing that was just blue, so I'm drawing this. I've used four different blue pencils so far, but hear me out. As I worked the pigments with alcohol, I could see that the darker blue was bleeding off some purple, which was lovely. So I went back to my pencil box and found a lavender pencil, which is not exactly blue, but it made the drawing look just like the ocean off the coast here which is way cool.
Sean likes it, so far, so..
I'm going to add more. I think. But I seriously love these colors.
Brian Wilson - The Lonely Sea
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The Sari Sari store
One of the more lovely aspects of Filipino culture are the Sari Sari stores. Small family businesses that operate out of a home window. The streets are lined with them. Little window shops selling snacks, drinks, canned goods and what not. In my early trips to the Philippines the colorful item filled windows reminded me of the repetitive motifs of my own art. I thought about this for the entire trip once back in 2016, and then when I got home I sat down drew this.
Sari Sari, watercolor and sharpie, los angeles, 2016
Sari Sari store
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pigments
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
A few days ago I had a thought. These pigments are so great, FTW, let's just have fun with color for a while.
Midnite - Musi to honor my King
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It was a good week
Chezidek - Beat Them
colored pencil drawings, calbayog city, 2025
Making these drawings, this past week, has been all together liberating. I am taking a short break while I consider what colors to explore next.
That photo is me in 2014.
full sun photo
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final layer
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
I added another layer to this drawing, and I'm thinking it's done. Not gonna lie, I like it.
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Next
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
These drawing are like playing with finger paints but with maybe a little more intectual input.
I work in layers. The above drawings is made of five layers. Below is the drawing after three layers. Really fun to watch them grow.
black and white
Massive Attack/Horace Andy - Man Next Door
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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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being that
colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025
Being that my kids were busy building a pillow and blanket fortress this morning, I had unfettered access to the colored pencils.
No other reason.
I drew this in layers. This was the first layer.
black and white
Midnite - Music to honor I king
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Sending out some love
FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Embrionic Journey - Jefferson Airplane
A student once asked Martin Heidegger how we should spend our lives. Heidegger replied, "We should spend more time in grave yards."
I, myself, would have answered, "We should spend more time bathing in waterfalls."
Calbayog City, Philippines, 2025
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