Blaze Foley - If I Could Only Fly

The First Time

The first time ever I saw your face

Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack

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drawing

pencil drawings, Calbayog City, 2024/25

I try to draw a little bit every day. It's good for the soul. And it's free.

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Angel from Montgomery

JOHN PRINE

I am an old woman

Named after my mother

My old man is another

Child who's grown old.

If dreams were lighting

And thunder were desire

This old house would have burnt down

A long time ago.

Make me an angel

To fly from Montgomery

Make me a poster

Of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing

That I can hold on to

To believe in this living

Is just a hard way to go.

-- John Prine

John Prine

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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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This one

black sharpie on poster board

Rosemead 2012

This drawing exists, somewhere.

I did this drawing a few years back. After I finished the drawing I took this picture of it with my cell phone and then I gave the drawing to my brother. Never a good idea but I love him and he liked it so why not. He actually had it framed and he put it up in his office at work. Prominently displayed. For a few years and then he left that job and had to clear out his office so he took it home. My brother owns a big house with a lot of piles of stuff in the attic and in the basement and in the garage and in closets and last year when I asked him if I could borrow the drawing so I could get a better picture of it he said he'd look for it and then after a day or so he told me he couldn't find it. It's buried in one of the piles somewhere he said and well, he can't find it.

So it goes my friends.

I know it's there somewhere.

Drives me nutz.

I'm glad I took the picture.

Carrickfergus

pen and watercolor

Los Angeles 2016

Carrickfergus

I wish I was in Carrickfergus,

If only for the night in Ballygrand,

I would swim over the deepest ocean,

The deepest ocean for my love to find.

But the sea is wide and I can not swim over

And neither have I wings to fly.

If I could find me a handsome boatman

To ferry me over to my love and die.

Irish folk song

Carrickfergus - Headland

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These are more calm, but so was I.

watercolor, los angeles, 2015

felt tip pen on cardboard

Alhambra 1988

I drew this at a party one night in 1988. There was a pen and a piece of cardboard on a table so I sat down and drew this, with everyone partying around me. It's filled with nervous energy because I was.

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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.

Nuff respect for Donovan

Donovan - Season of the Witch (Official Audio)

T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Nougbo Vehou

This really blows me away. Going back I'm finding that I like my colored pieces better in black & white than in the original color. SMH

This really bothers me.

Next day...

It's not that I don't like the drawing's color. It's more that the drawing becomes lost in the colors and it becomes flat

Back when I did this drawing I wanted my drawings to have no there there. Nothing to suggest a shape other than the image in its entirely.

But now looking at it I want something to define something.

I'm going to do another one of these to show you what I mean.

Kind of Pink

Colored pencil

Los Angeles 2015