Feet wet

 Sometimes people ask me why I'm always drawing mostly women... like the Carlos Gardel song says: "Si soy así ¿qué voy a hacer? pa' mí la vida tiene forma de mujer..."

"Feet wet (soon to be feet dry): Cuba loses another daughter" Charcoal and conte on paper 1990s In a private collection in Boston

This is "Feet wet (soon to be feet dry): Cuba loses another daughter" circa late 1990s, done after President Clinton imposed the "feet dry/feet wet" policy which condemned to jail thousands of Cubans trying to escape from Castro's Workers' Paradise and who were caught "feet wet" and returned to the prison island. It is in a private collection in Boston. 18x24 inches, charcoal on paper.

The Johnson Twins

 

The Johnson Twins - USS Saratoga Port Visit Taranto, Italy, 1976
By F. Lennox Campello

The Lilith Creating Darkness

 

The Lilith Creating Darkness
2009 by F. Lennox Campello

Isla Torturada

"Isla Torturada"
Hand-colored monoprint with embedded pins
5x7 inches

 

Isla del Ciervo Herido

 

Isla Golpeada
Hand-colored monoprint, c. 1980 by F. Lennox Campello
(Verse by Jose Marti)

A sailor and his date

A Sailor and his date
1986 vintage US Navy cartoon by F. Lennox Campello

 

You think that's hard?

 When I was in the Navy I did dozens of illustrations for newspapers (such as The Stars & Stripes), and sketches of his shipmates and other US Navy sailors in ports in the US and European ports.  Most of these drawings and paintings were given away to his shipmates, but I also kept many of them - this one has been in storage for over 40 years and was recently found!