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Greedy Babylon

Vernon Maytone feat. Prince Jazzbo

pencil drawings, calbayog city, 2025

Dateline 2025: War in Babylon.

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

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to dust we return

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2024

By the sweat of your brow

will you have food to eat

until you return to the ground.

from which you were made.

For you were made from dust,

and to dust you shall return.

-- Genisis 3:19

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2024

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Greedy Jones

VERNON MAYTONE

Vernon Maytone

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Pride of man

QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE

watercolor and ballpoint pen, calbayog city, 2024

For those who place their faith in fire,

In fire their faith shall be repaid.

Oh God, pride of man,

Broken into dust again.

-- Hamilton Camp

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black sharpie, Monrovia 1998

Another swirl drawing. I put those gaps in the lines just because I thought it would look cool but then the drawing took on a completely unexpected life. I was surprised.

Drawing those big swirls was a challenge. I remember feeling neurotic about them not being perfect. A couple of them still bug me. I'm a nut. :))

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Today

colored pencil & pen, monrovia 1996

I started drawing these swirls. And then I went nuts drawing swirls. I must have drawn 50 of these swirl drawings. I drew them at work and at home. On my napkin at the restaurant. It was all I wanted to do. One day a friend came to my place. When she saw I was drawing another swirl drawing she made this sound of exacerbation and said, "Pat! what's going on?"

Tbh I felt a little embarassed. So I moved on to drawing squares...

I still have a bunch of those swirl drawings.

I really like this one.

detail

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Just between you and me

colored pencil watercolor and pen

Monrovia, CA, 1995

In 1995 I was living in Monrovia, CA, and, on the advice of a judge, I stopped drinking alcohol.

Not being drunk all the time came as a shock to me. I suddenly had all this time to kill. I decided to work on large, time cosuming projects. The drawing above was my first. It took a couple of weeks to complete. And then I did another.

I drew. I drew in the middle of a life completely shattered. I drew, and I dreamed of a future. A future far away where I could be new.

Years later, in 2011, when I first landed in the Philippines, the first thing I noticed was the smell. Manila smells like an overwhelming mixture of cooked pork, motorcycle exhaust and BO.

As I walked down the tarmac I was still in Monrovia and I was still dreaming.

Calbayog City, Philippines, 2025

Akae Beka - Rebellion Running

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I don't know anything

MAD SEASON

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

Lèt me ask you something. What are you going to do in the future when every transaction we make is done on line and someone who you can't even talk to decides you can't do something?

Wondering outloud for a friend.

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Entropic eddies

Mystery of mysteries

colored pencil, los angeles, 2015

Life is so...

Life can best be seen as a river flowing through time.

Haploid diploid haploid diploid.

Entropic eddies swirled by stars.

And we're a piece of it.

Mystery of mysteries.

Don't even ask.

Mitosis - when the nuclear membrane reformed I about cheered.

Midnite - Envision

Can't seem to make you mine

THE SEEDS

Back before the Sex Pistols, before the Ramones, before the New York Dolls, back before all of them, The Seeds were Punk.

The Seeds were Punk not so much because of their music but because The Seeds were... Punks.

In 1966 The Seeds owned Sunset Blvd.

"Come back baby, cuz I'm all alone"

OMG my father hated these guys hahaha

The Seeds

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Johnny

pencil drawing, glendale, 1977

I used to drink entirely too much. Not something I'm particularly proud of but it's just the truth.

I used to go out carousing with my friends on weekend nights terrorizing the Los Angeles metropolis in drunken drugged out all night insanities.

It was fun, actually. Later in life, it stopped being fun. But when we were young, going out at night and being crazy was great fun.

I made the above drawing after one such night with my comrade Johnny. We had left a string of terror down Sunset Blvd. that night, and after we got back to my place, in the wee small hours of the morning, Johnny passed out on my couch. There he sat like an angel, but trust me, behind that gentle face slept a maniac.

And me? I was never too drunk to draw.

A few minutes after I drew the above drawing I felt a bit looser so I drew another one that better captured the spirit.

pencil drawing, glendale, 1977

Oh, for the record, I stopped drinking in 1995.

I had an appointment one morning with a judge who gave me a chilling ultimatum that scared the shit out of me and that I wisely heeded.

Cold turkey.

Thirty years now.

Sometimes I can't believe I survived my youth.

Thank you Judge Sawyer.

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Come to me

OTIS REDDING

pencil drawing, calbayog, philippines, 2024

I haven't been drawing for a couple of weeks. I don't know why.

Shit happens. Sometimes shit doesn't happen.

This morning I went through some old drawings looking for inspiration and I found this drawing from last year.

I like this drawing. I probably shouldn't like it because it's half done, but who among us can claim to be complete?

And she talks to me. She has attitude. She's like a character from some hard boiled novel.

She exudes plot.

Magic that I will never fathom.

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self portrait

ballpoint pen, los angeles, 2018

I drew this one day looking at the mirror.

My wife said it looks just like me.

Not certain what to make of that.

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Purify Your Heart

JOHNNY OSBOURNE

You're going to church on Sunday

There's no love in your heart on Monday

You're trying to show me that you know yourself

You'd better purify your heart

Then you'll know yourself.

Johnny Osbourne

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The Circle Game

TOM RUSH / JONI MITCHELL

pencil drawing, calbayog city, philippines 2023

My only regret in life is that I didn't come to the Philippines sooner. I love it here.

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This is amazing

Cover of 'fable' by Gigi Perez.

Non-thinking

Alan Watts - Non-thinking

black pen, monrovia, 1996

Alan Watts

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Flowers

colored pencil, los angeles, 2018

Going through some old notebooks and I found this.

Tom Rush - No Regrets

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Anne's hand

Tom Rush/Joni Mitchell - Urge for Going

Your hand is always in everything. Do you know that?

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

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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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RIP Roberta Flack

Thank you for your beautiful music.

The First Time

The first time ever I saw your face

Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack

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Frozen Silence

LIFE

watercolor & ballpoint pen, calbayog city, 2024

Eternity can never be earned. It must be accepted.

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Apocalypse

Cigarettes after sex - Apocalypse,

pencil drawing, calbayog city, 2025

Once upon a time we were alive,

and for just that moment,

we looked around, in awe.

Calbayog City, 2025

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Life

pencil drawing in my moleskine, calbayog, 2024

The Philippines is a young nation. Literally.

The median age in the Philippines is 25. The street where I live is filled with children playing. And everywhere I look there are young women with babies.

It's really so beautiful.

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colored pencil, los angeles, 2021

After a painting by Jan Bogaerts

Inside of me there's an impressionist lying in wait.

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black pen & colored pencils, los angeles, 2013

Lines go where they want to. That's life.

There is no such thing as an incorrect line until another line is drawn next to it.

Colors, on the other hand, are like flavors.

Alpha Blonde - Jerusalem

black pen & colored pencils, los angeles, 2015

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going home

colored pencil and pen on paper

Los Angeles 2018

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everyone rushes around in a great panic as if it is necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

-- Alan Watts

colored pencil and ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2018

black sharpie

Hollywood 2018

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some random old drawings

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Niney I soon know - One foot Sammy

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Unicorns and Jellyfish

colored pencil, Monrovia, 1997

This morning Sean, my nine year old son asked me,

"Dad, what's more believable, a unicorn or a jellyfish?"

My son's gone to school now but I'm still mulling that one over.

Here's a couple of older drawings.

Happy Friday.

still life

pencil drawing, Hollywood, 2017

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Kiss the night air

pencil drawing, Calbayog City, 2025

"May I kiss you then. On this miserable paper. I may as well open the window and kiss the night air." - Franz Kafka

Portishead - Roads

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