Latest Posts by patrickelvinart - Page 6

Uncomfortably human

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

Self-concious raw desire is uncomfortably human - Anon

Sean, my 8yo son, told me this is the worst drawing I have ever done.

He might be right, but what does that mean̈?

Estas Tonne - Message from the stars

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Zero 7 - Home

I did the pen drawing last night before dinner and the pencil drawing this morning in bed.

Next comes pancakes.

Saturday night

ballpoint pen

Calbayog City 2024

Sunday morning

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

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ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

"If, we become naked* Yoko Ono

ballpoint pen and pencil

Calbayog City 2024

Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions

Lose Me On the Way

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So beautiful

The Blacksmith (Live in Cotopaxi) Lady Moon

Zero 7 - Morning song

ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

"Endings, to be useful, must be inconclusive" - Samual R. Delany

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Life - Frozen Silence

ballpoint pen and watercolor

Calbayog City 2024

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself." - Alan Watts

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black sharpie on bond paper

San Francisco 2003

I spent Christmas 2003 with some friends in San Francisco. They lived in this big two-hundred-year-old house that sat on the prison grounds of San Quentin penitentiary. It's a long story actually but what I remember most was the bed. The guest room of the house had this large old four posted wooden bed frame with the softest thickest most wonderful mattress I have ever slept on in my entire life. I will never forget the moment when I laid down and sank into the loving folds of that luxurious mattress. I felt embraced by softness, and I fell asleep as if floating on a cloud.

When I awoke the next morning I was amazed at the time. I had slept through the entire night without waking up once. I felt wonderfully refreshed.

After breakfast I sat down with my sharpie and drew both of these drawings in a single sitting.

black sharpie on bond paper

San Francisco 2003

Zero 7 - Give it away

ballpoint pen and watercolor

Calbayog City 2024

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to deal with his fools." Ernest Hemingway

But what about the sober man?

The sober man

ballpoint pen and watercolor

Calbayog City 2024

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Bonfires of joy

ballpoint pen

Corvallis OR 1971

The university was about an hour drive from the Oregon coast. On weekends ends we would pile into our friend's van and drive through the mountain forest to the beach. When sunset came we would light huge bonfires of driftwood logs and eat bread and drink red wine and dance with joy.

Hippy days, long gone, but still here.

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Finals week

Bic ballpoint pen

Corvallis OR 1971

Some very old drawings. My freshman year in college. I didn't learn much calculus tbh.

Study?

Bic ballpoint pen

Corvallis OR 1971

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Kitten invasion

watercolor and ballpoint pen

Calbayog City 2024

The kitten invasion continues. My wife set out a box of kitty litter and our new kittens have taken up residence. There's three of them. All greys with blue eyes. Our home is jumping with kitten energy.

Momma cat, a quiet calico I've known for a while, comes by periodically to check up on them.

Momma Cat

Last night I found out that they're all crazy for cooked shrimp. We have tnat in common.

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Newly arrived kittens

watercolor and ballpointpen

Calbayog City 2024

Our neighbor's cat recently had a litter of kittens, and being as our neighbor can't afford to buy cat food, our house has now been invaded by five hungry kittens. The kitten energy is infectious.

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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

Steve's mother

Ballpoint pen and red pencil

Calbayog City 2024

This drawing... I don't know.

But first off, I'm not Steve.

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Lost in time

black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2013

I think this was the last Sierpinski drawings I did. I really enjoyed making these drawings. The sierpinski triangle is a drawing technique that one, or at least that I, can become utterly lost in. Hours can go by with no other thought than "draw."

So lovely.

Like a good drug.

I should do another one.

Chet Baker - Almost blue

This song kills me.

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Tinariwen - Tinwaywen

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City 2024

I have a big soft spot in my heart for North African music. The energy and the simplicity are cogent reminders to all artist.

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e duobus unum

ballpoint pen and pencil

Calbayog City 2024

Sometimes I'm like, fuck it, let's draw.

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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.

Unwanted memories

watercolor and watercolorpencil

Calbayog City 2024

This painting is pretty brutal I know. It's coming from someplace.

The thing about watercolor is that when you apply the paint, magic happens.

Deep in our being we are spirits.

Our spirits follow magic beyond our control.

Cigarettes after sex - John Wayne

watercolor and watercolorpencil

Calbayog City 2024

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Estas Tonne - Internal Flight

pencil and watercolor on paper

Calbayog City 2024

New piece. Today.

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Beautiful things

Black sharpie on beige paper

Rosemead 2012

"Dream pretty dreams of beautiful things,

let all the skies surround you.

Swim with the swans and believe that upon

some glorious dawn love will find you"

Townes van Zandt

This drawing just came out of nowhere. Like a mystical gift, one day it just happened.

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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Time is static

pen and pencil

Hollywood 2019

Bring me home

colored pencil and pen on paper

Los Angeles 2018

colored pencil and ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2018

I must have drawn fifteen variations of this drawing. I don't know why. Most of them I drew during down time at work. I liked the image. I still do. It gives me hope for the future. Again, I don't know why.

Maybe I'll draw another.

colored pencil and sharpie

Hollywood 2018

black sharpie

Hollywood 2018

Bring me home - Sade

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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Time is fractal

black sharpie and colored pencil

Rosemead 2010

Sometime around 2009 I learned how to draw a Sierpinski triangle. And then I spent the next couple of years obsessed. I mean days on end obsessed.

Chatress Seba - Om Shanti Om

black sharpie on board

Rosemead 2011

Self portrait 1979

pencil drawing on paper

Santa Barbara, USA

Self portraits. 1979 and 2024

So it goes.

Self portrait 2024

pencil drawing on paper

Calbayog City, Philippines

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Flowers for Jasmine

black sharpie and crayon

Westwood 1988

I started out long before I began...

The thing about this particular pattern is that I never really figured out what I was doing. I just drew, and the pieces just fit.

... actually, I never really even began...

This one I added color. I had some old crayons lying around and, it turned out nicely.

... things just somehow fit together.

Amber Leigh Irish - Yellow

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Eye candy

black sharpie

Culver City 1989

When I realized that I could draw nothing and have it be something, my world changed.

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Nature & Humanity

pencil on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

In the Philippines, the real law of the land is the law of nature. With no safty net.

In the Philippines, everywhere women are suckling babies. The streets are filled with children laughing and dancing in play. But there are no old people.

Smiles and machetes.

I exist here as if in a dream. As if in a bubble. Looking out but never touching.

Calbayog City 2024

Cigarettes after sex

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Lather - Jefferson Airplane

Black sharpie on paper

Hollywood 2018

I have this idea for a science fiction story.

In the story during an unborn child's nine months in the womb, the child's entire life is slowly played out for them like in a movie so that by the time they are born they know everything that is going happen to them in their life.

In the story then when the mother is about to give birth, the unborn child faces the opening cervix and looks out to their inevitable future with dread.

Being born then wipes away all memory of this.

But each person then leads their lives with the uneasy feeling that everything is a forgone conclusion.

Second thoughts

Black sharpie on paper

Hollywood 2018

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I just want to say thank you. Your art offers a different perspective. I haven't had very much energy lately, but scrolling through tumblr and seeing your latest piece. I don't know what to say. Just a small glimpse and I was obsessed. It reminded me of the fact that everything large achievement is composed of a multitude of small goals. Art can change the direction of the world, and yours shifted my course a little.

Wow, thank you anonymous, you just made my day. - Patrick

Imaginary can

Ballpointpen & alcohol in my moleskine

Los Angeles 2018