Latest Posts by patrickelvinart - Page 7

"Space is where you let go, not where you hold on" - Alan Watts

Yesterday, Sean, my 8 yo son, asked me:

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

I love it when he asks me things like that.

Space time and jellyfish

Pen drawing

Chicago 2004

One / One

Black sharpie on paper

Monrovia 1996

I drew this in 1996. I spent a few days on it and when it was done I didn't like it so I immediately put it in a drawer and forgot about.

Twenty-two years later, in 2018, I was going though old piles and I found it. I had completely forgotten about it. It was an amazing find. I had not seen or even thought about this drawing since the moment I had finshed it.

And, I'll be honest with you, I fell in love with it.

I fell in love with it as I would somone wonderful, someone who I had thoughtlessly lost, but who had then, by some miracle, come back into my life.

And forgiven me.

1/1 - Brian Eno

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Child of snow

pencil & watercolor

Calbayog City 2024

"I'm just a station on your way"

Winter song - Leonard Cohen

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Femme Fatale - Nico and the Velvet Underground

pencildrawing

Calbayog City 2024

I never liked The Velvet Underground until I listened to them.

Sometime around 2010 I downloaded their first album and,

I loved it.

Highly recomended.

I think back when they first came out I was just put off by the whole seedy Andy Warhol scene so I really never listened to them.

Lesson learned:

"Don't dislike a band until you have at least listened to them."

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I found you - Mizo version

Ruth Tochhawng vocals

Black & Red Sharpie

Los Angeles 2020

Dear Tumblr,

Please Po, fix our Tumblr connection here in the Philippines.

Update:

Our Tumblr connection has been repaired. All is good here in the Philippines.

Thank you Po ❤️

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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. :))

Orange Skies - Love

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i hope I'm this cool when I'm your age

Thank you, Anonymous. Life is a mysterious journey. Just enjoy it and whatever you do, don't let go.

Mysterious nature

Ballpoint pen on a post card

Los Angeles 2014

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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Thank you so much for posting all your art on here. I have just found you for the first time and your art is simply beautiful to me. I first saw the beautiful pink and blue piece that looks like stained glass and it made me feel so peaceful and serene that I came to your page and looked at everything else you have made as well. I will buy one as soon as I can afford art on top of rent. You have an absolute gift, and I hope I keep seeing your pieces :)

Thank you, Anonymous. That means a lot to me. ❤️

Midnights after getting home

Watercolor and sharpie

Westwood 1985

Dream river and moon

Colored pencil and pen

Los Angeles 2018

When the mind dreams it is at play.

There is an appeal to illustration that transcends subject. My art is a reflection of nature. My art is my dream.

Somewhere, even in deconstruction, there is a promise of reconstruction. My art is my reminder.

My art is my ouija board.

Dream river blue moon

colored pencil

Los Angeles 2019

Dream river no moon

Colored pencil and pen

Los Angeles 2018

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Coral reef

colored pencil (inverse colors)

Los Angeles 2015

For years I worked pretty much exclusively in black and white using a black sharpie. Then one day, around 2011, I showed a bunch of my pieces to my brother who looked at them and simply said,

"Your work needs more color."

Pissed. Me. Off...

In anger I went out and bought a bunch of colored pencils and had at it.

I'm really glad he said that to me.

Arizona

colored pencil (inverse colors)

Los Angeles 2016

Waiting for tomorrow

(Perfect day - Lou Reed)

Pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2024

This morning's drawing.

One advantage to being an unknown artist is that whenever I sit down to draw I can draw whatever the hell I want.

Young woman with a hair barrette

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Is this a shameless plug for my Instagram?

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Time - Toshiki Soejima

My drawings

Los Angeles and Calbayog City

I think the oldest drawing in this montage was done sometime around 2017. I did the newest one two days ago.

That last face, btw, is pretty much me.

I'm thinking of drawing more snails. Snails are fun to draw.

A Snail

Ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2018

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All this love

pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2024

I was sitting in the car waiting for my family and I didn't have anything to draw with so I reached in my son's book bag and grabbed one of his standard issue school pencils. And hey... looks not bad actually.

Kind of funny.

All this love - El Debarge

Each time you fall in love

Coloredpencil and Watercolor

Monrovia 1996

I made this drawing in 1996.

When I drew it, by the grace of God, I had been free form alcohol for one incredible year and I remember, so clearly, that as I drew, I was feeling a deep new creative surge born of hope.

Life is an epic journey my friends.

Each time you fall in love - Cigarettes after sex

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After Munch

(Augustus Pablo - Dub Organizer)

pencil drawing in my moleskine

Calbayog City 2023

I absolutely adore Edvard Munch but here's the deal.. If you search for Munch's art you're going to get like a million copies of "The Scream" which is a great painting sure, but there is so much more to Edvard Munch than "The Scream."

Anyway, IMHO, Edvard Munch is a wonderful artist and if you like drawing he is certainly someone well worth studying.

Study for Madonna

Edvard Munch. 1894

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License to kill

Life is so important

pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Let's talk.

My 8 year old son asks me why we're living in the Philippines, and I really don't know what to tell him.

How do I make sense to him out of a world that no longer makes sense?

Richie Havens - License to Kill by Bob Dylan

Malajoh bay, Samar, Philippines

I dreamed last night that the world had been taken over by blood thirsty aliens.

How silly of me.

Pencil drawing

Calbayog City 2024

Moi DTLA

If I remember right, this photo was taken sometime around 2013. I was in the CR at a gas station near downtown Los Angeles and decided to take a quick selfie..

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Coral reef

colored pencil (inverse colors)

Los Angeles 2015

For years I worked pretty much exclusively in black and white using a black sharpie. Then one day, around 2011, I showed a bunch of my pieces to my brother who looked at them and simply said,

"Your work needs more color."

Pissed. Me. Off...

In anger I went out and bought a bunch of colored pencils and had at it.

I'm really glad he said that to me.

Arizona

colored pencil (inverse colors)

Los Angeles 2016

This is a longshot, would you be willing to help me get my insulin? I'm down to my last pen and its pretty much close to being empty.Nt asking for much only need $370 rn to save my blood sugar. please help me with a small donation or share, reblog any help can save my life.Please help & Blessings ❤

Go to your local county hospital. If your glucose level is high they will adjust it and admit you if necessary. Once they learn of your financial situation they will set you up with a social worker who will arrange for your insulin. I've worked in many county hospitals and I've never seen anyone in need of insulin turned down.

Natural progression

watercolor on paper

Los Angeles 2019

When I become artistically lost, I draw circles.

There is something deeply satisfying about a circle. It conveys, at least to me, the completeness of life, the circadian rhythms of nature, the endless hope of rebirth.

I draw and I feel the metaphysical ambiance.

But I know its all an illusion.

Hailu Mergia - Endegena

Yesterday we went on a road trip up to the north coast of our island. We traveled through the Philippine outback and along the way we stopped and bought road side foods, which were delicious.

We traveled as a group. My wife and myself with our kids. Some friends came along as well with their kids.

It was so beautiful.

We drove for several hours through the countryside and all the while, even though I knew it was all an illusion...

I had to admit that it was a beautiful illusion.

It's an illusion

watercolor on paper

Los Angeles 2019

Message to Michael - Dionne Warwick

Just because I love this song.

We're going on a road trip today. Up to the north coast of the Island. We'll pack the van with my kids and ten or so cousins. And lots of food. And have fun 🤣

Let me tell you about blue...

The Pacific ocean is so beautiful.

Blue, just blue

Watercolor on paper

Los Angeles 2017

Akae Beka - The Earth is the Lord

The island we live on has so many waterfalls. This one is near our home. The cold mountain water is a delight to bath in.

I like to stand under the raging falls and scream.

In the evenings we eat Filipino foods. Chicken cooked in coconut milk. Locally grown rice. Fresh fruits.

We have internet connection otherwise it would be easy to forget there is an outside world. I read all the news and I thank God I'm here.

Am I hiding?

You know it.

These are some watercolor paintings I made a few years ago. I was deep into ancient megaliths at the time. And blue.

The Earth is the Lord

Watercolor on paper

Los Angeles 2017

A curious snail

Ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2017

Do snails yearn?

Message to Michael by Dionne Warwick.

Love that song.

Do snails yearn?

Ballpoint pen

Los Angeles 2017

Little Boxes - Pete Seeger

Colored pencil & black sharpie

Los Angeles 2019

One day, a couple of years ago, I was looking around the apartment for something to draw when my eyes landed on three boxes, stacked upon one another, in the corner of our dining area.

So I quickly sketched them in pencil.

It was an OK drawing and I still have it lying around here somewhere but after I had drawn the boxes in pencil I got out my sharpie and redrew them in ink.

The result was nice..

Three Boxes

Black sharpie

Los Angeles 2019

This got me stared drawing boxes. I drew boxes at home. I drew boxes at work. I drew boxes in my moleskine. I drew boxes.

I soon cut the stack down to two boxes because it looked better.

Two Boxes

Black Sharpie

Hollywood 2019

I drew these boxes over and over. Like about thirty times.

More Boxes

black sharpie

Los Angeles 2019

Why did I keep draw these boxes?

Here's why.

When I look at these boxes I always get this erie feeling of...

Time is standing still.

I don't know why, but it gives me tickle.

Time is standing still

Black sharpie

Los Angeles 2019

Sunday mornings

Ballpoint pen on an envelope

Los Angeles 2015

Today is our 10th wedding anniversary.

What a trip.

I drew this about a year after we got married.

I still love hanging out in bed on Sunday mornings cept now we have two little kids sleeping with us.

Filipino style.

Mystery and manifestation

Black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2022

Mystery and manifestation

arise from the same source.

This source is called darkness.

- Lao Tsu

Zero 7 - Warm Sound

colored pencil & pen, calbayog city, 2024

My 5 yo daughter asked for a drawing with pink in it so I drew this. She says she likes it.

My brother, on the other hand, said he liked it more when it was unfinished and still had some white areas.

Maybe..

Luckily I took an in progress photo.

Time for coffee.

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Black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2015

I like this drawing.

I know the signature is upside down.

But so is the drawing.

Destiny - Zero 7

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