i travel sketch live

and use a book as a ticket to journey spiritually

sketched from the main entrance area of laoag church this is all i could sketch of laoag, because we were busy walking around and discovering great places to eat.

tree below kaangrian falls the area around ka-angrian falls is magnificent, beautiful and enchanting, but it is currently very dirty with litter, left over paper plates, junk food container and empty liquor bottles are all over the camp area. i think a community clean up should be done but i fear more people visiting the place would only damage the area more. this tree is located in the burgos town square where we ate lunch at the food stalls, delicious ilocano food at very local price anybody can afford. the kapurpurawan 'white' rock a quick sketch, it was a cloudless day, the sun was above us and the wind blew hard this is what i saw at a distance from the right side of the rock formations drawn from cape bojeador light house, it is a view of a ruined house and the china sea as we waited for the sun to set, i sketched the cape bojeador lighthouse from the roof deck of palaya hotel where we stayed for two nights

wooden wall lamp holder at the malacanang of the north, paoay ilocos norte if the wall lamp i saw and sketched was not reproduction,  it was most probably, ill-gotten wall lamp purchased or acquired through ill-gotten wealth :D

i painted the spoliarium in ten minutes using my android xperia phone in front of the real one while there was an educational tour. my problem with the museum rules was: -i was allowed to take pictures of the artwork but i was not allowed to paint it on your phone (what the? were they thinking that my version of the artwork might be so much better than the original?) -i am not allowed to carry around my sketchbook (what am i going to do with it without a pen or pencil? press the paper on the artwork and pray that it will magically transfer into my sketchbook page?) i get it that bringing pens and pencils are not allowed because (if you are like me) i might cover the artist's signature and sign my name in instead. i think they should update their rules or make it clearer. i asked the museum staff why 'i cant paint it on my phone but it's ok to take a picture of it on the same phone' and she could not give me an answer. but anyway, the girl who was manning th...

salcedo st, vigan, ilocos sur, philippines

claveria lagoon, cagayan, philippines view the prodding child

sighted at burgos town, ilocos norte, philippines

found at teacher's village calinan davao city

stealing ant eggs for breakfast

first impressions last, and butuan surely had a lasting impression

somewhere in ilocos

but you know that already

 do as many takes as you need to

badoc, ilocos norte

these pictures were taken last december 2013 at the davao city ecoland terminal, nobody, government and citizens, should not be too busy to clean up after themselves

would you sleep in a room that looks like this?

salcedo st, vigan

but it's never 'only love'

sentinela, claveria, cagayan

would you stay in a hotel that looks like this?

when we arrived at curimao for the first time, the bus let us off near the seaport so we had to walk all the way to the where the rock formations are. see the map below to get an idea of how long we walked, but arrived just before the sun was setting so we had time to rest and relax. i took out my ukelele and just started playing.  waiting for the sunset   download/listen to recording: waiting for the sunset the Local Fisherfolk coming home from spear fishing download/ listen to recording: the lives of fisherfolk in curimao all you have to do is sit down, slow down, and wait download/ listen to recording: between the road and the sea at curimao the sun has come to set at curimao download/ listen to recording: sunset has come to curimao the sunset lingers at curimao download/ listen to recording: the setting sun lingers in curimao after the ultra long sunset, we wen...