Illustrating David Bowie’s Song Lyrics

Trinity Auditorium
Sep 27, 2017
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Yesterday, in my Alfred Hitchcock paintings post I mentionned that I had also made some David Bowie’s paintings. Yes, you might have seen some of them if you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, but I thought I would also share them on my blog for more people to enjoy them. These are not David Bowie’s portraits, but little paintings illustrating some of my favourite song lyrics. These are made in the same style as my Hitchcock’s paintings. I did those paintings this summer and was just passionated about it. And it’s also a very relaxing activity. For once in my life, I enjoyed doing visual art or, should I say, actually LIKED what I was doing. Perhaps because I find my own style, my own personal touch. My mother told me it made her thing of Keith Harring paintings. I think I know what she means. I’ll let you be the judge of that!

Yes, this is not directly connected to movies, but, appart from classic films, David Bowie is another thing (person) I am crazy about. And, after all, the man did star in some films!

At the end of this post, I’ve included a list of the songs I’ve illustrated and linked them to youtube. If you are not too familiar with Bowie, this is maybe a way for you to discover him! 🙂

Ok, here we go!

bowie par virginie 1 — “And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear” (David Bowie, Space Oddity) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 2 — “With the man who sold the world” (David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World)- Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 3 — “And the rumour spread that I was aging fast” (David Bowie, The Width of a Circle)- Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 4 — “If our love song could fly over mountains” (David Bowie, Absolute Beginners)- Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 5 — “I’ve made some breakfast and coffee” (David Bowie, Oh! You Pretty Thing) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 6 — “If you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower” (David Bowie, Let’s Dance) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 7 — “As long as you’re still smiling, there’s nothing more I need” (David Bowie, Absolute Beginners) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 8 — “As long as we’re together, the rest can go to hell” (David Bowie, Absolute Beginners) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 9 — “I, I will be king and you, you will be queen” (David Bowie, Heroes) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 10 — “Yes we’re lovers” (David Bowie, Heroes) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 11 — “You are not a victim. You just scream with boredom” (David Bowie, Time) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 13 — “Time. He’s waiting in the wings” (David Bowie, Time) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 14 — “Burning up each others’ love” (David Bowie, Miracle Goodnight) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 15 — “I laughed and shook his hand” (David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 16 — “I wish I was a sailor, a thousand miles from here” (David Bowie, Miracle Goodnight) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 17 — “And your prayers they break the sky in two” (David Bowie, Loving the Alien) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 18-1 — “Loving the alien” (David Bowie, Loving the Alien) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 19 — “But the film is a saddening bore” (David Bowie, Life On Mars?) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 20 — “Sailors fighting in the dancehall” (David Bowie, Life On Mars?) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 21 — “Watch that man!” (David Bowie, Watch That Man) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 22 — “We met upon a hill” (David Bowie, She Shook Me Cold) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 23 — “The Halloween Jack is a real cool cat” (David Bowie, Diamond Dogs) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 24 — “Make me jump into the air” (David Bowie, Moonage Daydream) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 25 — “I’m an alligator” (David Bowie, Moonage Daydream) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 26 — “Blue blue, electric blue” (David Bowie, Sound and Vision) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 27 — “We want you Big Brother” (David Bowie, Big Brother) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 28 — “Something in the night, something in the day” (David Bowie, Beauty and the Beast) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 29 — “We know Major Tom’s a junky” (David Bowie, Ashes to Ashes) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 30 — “I’m lying in the rain” (David Bowie, Modern Love) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 31 — “Need an axe to break the ice” (David Bowie, Ashes to Ashes) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 32 — “Give me some good old lobotomy” (David Bowie, All the Madmen) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 33 — ” The virgin king” (David Bowie, We Are the Dead) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 34 — “I will break my arm. I will do me harm” (David Bowie, All the Madmen) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 35 — “Just to touch the flaming dove” (David Bowie, Soul Love) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 36 — “Fashion! Turn to the left! Fashion! Turn to the right! Ouuuuuu! Fashion!” (David Bowie, Fashion) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie 37 — “There’s a brand new talk but it’s not very clear” (David Bowie, Fashion) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie par virginie — “Take your proteine pills and put your helmet on” (David Bowie, Space Oddity) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 1 — “Talking ’bout Monroe” (David Bowie, The Jean Genie) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 2 — “In 1910 I was so handsome and strong. My mustache was stiffly waxed and one foot long” (David Bowie, Rubber Band) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 3 — “Looks a lot like Che Guevara” (David Bowie, Panic in Detroit) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 4 — “Some people are marching together and some on their own” (David Bowie, After All) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 5 — “Is it nice in your snowstorm” (David Bowie, Sweet Thing (Reprise) ) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 6 — “The jump in the river holding hands” (David Bowie, Candidate) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 7 — “I was stone and he was was” (David Bowie, Bewlay Brothers) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 8 — “It’s not the side effects of the cocaine. I’m thinking that it must be love” (David Bowie, Station to Station)

Bowie virginie 9 — “She got a ticket to nowhere” (David Bowie, Day-In, Day-Out) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 10 — “My heart’s a flame” (David Bowie, Love You ‘Till Tuesday) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 11 — “You read it in the tea leaves” (David Bowie, 1984) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 12 — “Johnny’s an American” (David Bowie, I’m Affraid of Americans) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 13 — “I am a DJ, I am what I play” (David Bowie, DJ) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 14 — “So I run across a monster who is sleeping by a three” (David Bowie, The Width of a Circle) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 15 — “We’re the spiders from Mars” (David Bowie, Hang on to Yourself) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 16 — “I’m a blackstar” (David Bowie, Blackstar) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 17 — “Just the beer light to guide us” (David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie 18 — “Day after day, they send my friends away to mansions cold and grey” (David Bowie, All the Madmen) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Bowie virginie — “I drew something awful on him” (David Bowie, Breaking Glass) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 1 — “Well, it ain’t that Barbie doll. Her hearts have been broken just like you” (David Bowie, Young Americans) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 2 — “When your a boy, you can wear an uniform” (David Bowie, Boys Keep Swinging) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 3 — “From station to station” (David Bowie, Station to Station) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 4 — “Uncle Arthur and his new bride” (David Bowie, Uncle Arthur) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 5 — “Don’t want to be a richer man” (David Bowie, Changes) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 6 — “The world will overpopulate” (David Bowie, We Are Hungry Men) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 7 — “I just met a girl named Blue Jean” (David Bowie, Blue Jean) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 8 - copie — “Give me your hands ’cause you’re wonderful” (David Bowie, Rock ‘n Roll Suicide) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 9 — “Your minds are too green” (David Bowie, Saviour Machine) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 10 — “You’re a porcupine” (David Bowie, Cracked Actor) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 11 — “Baby, I’ve been breaking glass in your room again” (David Bowie, Breaking Glass) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie 12 — “The return of the Thin White Duke throwing darts in lovers’ eyes” (David Bowie, Station to Station) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peinture Bowie — “Well, well, well, would you carry a razor just in case of depression?” (David Bowie, Young Americans) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peintures chanson bowie 1 — “We had five years left to cry in” (David Bowie, Five Years) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peintures chanson bowie 2 — “Put on your red shoes and dance the blues” (David Bowie, Let’s Dance) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peintures chanson bowie 3 — “Under the moonlight, the serious moonlight” (David Bowie, Let’s Dance) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peintures chanson bowie 4 — “Morning star you’re beautiful” (David Bowie, Miracle Goodnight) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peintures chanson bowie 5 — “I saw my baby, she was turning blue” (David Bowie, Goodnight) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peintures chanson bowie 6 — “Cold fire, you’ve got everything but cold fire” (David Bowie, The Prettiest Star) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peintures chanson bowie 7 — “There’s a starman waiting in the sky” (David Bowie, Starman) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

Peintures chanson bowie — “Cried so much his face was wet” (David Bowie, Five Years) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie paintings 1 — “I’ll give you television, I’ll give you eyes of blue” (David Bowie, China Girl) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie paintings 2 — “Will you see that I’m scared and I’m lonely” (David Bowie, Sweet Thing) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie paintings 3 — “My word on a wing” (David Bowie, Word on a Wing) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

bowie paintings — “She’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl” (David Bowie, Rebel Rebel) – Artwork by ©Virginie Pronovost

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Here a list of the songs I illustrated 🙂

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Do I intend to do more? Of course! There are some lyrics I’ve noted that I still haven’t illustrated and I’ve recently discovered more of his songs. So, these artistic activities aren’t about to be over!

You know, David himself was an artist and did some paintings. Before becoming a famous singer, he studied art!

Please don’t hesitate to tell me wich paintings are your favourite! 🙂 I would love that!

Hope you enjoyed!

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