Songdrawing No.16 – Black Hole Sun, Soundgarden

Songdrawing No.15 – Child of the Wind, Bruce Cockburn

Songdrawing No.14 – Goldfish, Roy Harper

I haven’t done a song drawing for ages but this song by Roy Harper has been in my head all week.  The illustration in the Youtube clip isn’t mine in case someone thinks it is.

Songdrawing No.13 -I dreamed a Highway Back to You, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings

‘Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and rest my soul
I dream a highway back to you…’

Songdrawing No.12 – Sprawl II (Mountains beyond Mountains), Arcade Fire

Songdrawing No. 11 – The Speed of Sound of Loneliness, Nanci Griffith & John Prine

Songdrawing No. 10 – Jesus, The Velvet Underground

 

Song Drawing No 9. – Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35, Bob Dylan

song drawing No.8 – Into the Mystic, Van Morrison

Doodled sometime between 8am and 9am in Common Grounds.

‘Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic’

There has been a pattern emerging with these song drawings.
I don’t usually plan to draw or doodle  along to a song, it just seems to grab me and happen. Perhaps I am writing in a coffee shop or taking notes and a certain song comes on the speaker, makes me pick up my pens and draw along.

But looking back on the 8 I have done so far, 5 have involved the sea, boats on the sea or submarines under the sea. There seems to be some nautical thought tide.
Perhaps gnostic badness of wanting to escape everything and everyone on my boat by myself?
Lets hope it doesn’t develop into full blown Enya-Orinocoflow-Syndrome…

Song Drawing No.7 – La Mer, Charles Trenet

(from 13.3omins into the video)