Sunday, June 25, 2006

Kristina

Pre-digital. Old school!!! :) Oil and 24k German goldleaf on wood. 16"x20". This is my cousin Kristina. She is half-Pilipino, half American. She says that makes a her a "FLIP". The initial painting was suppose to have her hair out but when she came by wearing a doo-rag (sp?), I couldn't resist.

More drawings...

Here are a couple of more pages from my sketchbook.



These two are ballpoint and sumi-ink drawings. I drew them inside a coffee shop I found in some small town in the Florida panhandle. There was an annoying man that spoke loudly about how much money he made. I remember thinking that my coffee was quite hot. It would have made a great projectile. But ultimately, a cooler head prevailed and I went off to look for a good Rilke book.

I like this movie quite a bit, although I find many people are turned off by it. Watercolor and gouache over a xylene transfer…

Red ballpoint, watercolor and gouache over a xylene transfer…

Drawings from my book

These are a couple of pages of my current sketchbook. It is comprised of doodles, ideas and notes; including various things I encountered during my road trip a couple of months back.


I went sky diving a couple of times this last year. It was and continues to be a wonderful experience. This page was created 20 minutes before my first jump. Two characters I met, one a 70-year-old man who is addicted to jumping (has over 800 jumps under him) and the other; an older black woman, a 40-year-old mother who jumps every weekend as a hobby. They found their way into my book.

Drawing on the plane, turning unsuspecting passengers into victims for my drawings…

Notes and ideas for a painting…

I like the smile on this one…

Waiting for sushi to arrive… My favorite drawings I find are the most careless ones.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Last night

The Heat won the finals last night. Driving in Miami afterwards was absolutely crazy...

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

June 20, 2006 :)

I need to paint. I have postponed it for so long. I believe it was out of necessity and I am at peace with that; but my gut is slowly crawling up, tugging at my tongue, nagging, reminding me what I have put away.

I guess this blog will be therapy for me. I will sometime soon, be posting miscellaneous drawings and hopefully paintings... both traditional and digital. It is always nice to see a collection of things, no matter what it may be.