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Light And Letters Winter Roughby *soulburn3d

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Another speed painting based on a short story by Don Campbell.

Winter by Don Campbell

Only they could understand how desperate a time it was. The cold winters had pushed too far. And we all had to make a desperate gamble. We could see it from our apartment building. The dirty grey and yellow fuselage broke free from the mountains of snow, silhouetted in the deep blue night under the light of two full moons, the dark black and glass buildings surrounded it, the smaller ones buried under the fifty feet of snow that had fallen.

The hallways were empty, it went without saying, everyone had come to watch the launch, as soon as the howl of the engine started up there was a rush to see the take off. And it had to be through the windows, the roof was blocked by snow and if it wasn’t the wind would have swept any one off for their bodies to be lost among the snow drifts. The underground was safer from the cold, but more dangerous, people were more territorial, up here near the sky we at least worked together.

The ship crested the snow when a gust came in from the west making the ship lurch to the right, the snow on the right side sloughed off from the heat of engine systems putting the ship off balance once more and the snow on the left side fell away, breaking apart in the winds. The propulsion glowed yellow, melting the ice and snow below and behind it. The howl grew into a roar as the engines revved up preparing for launch into the sky. To the stars. To our last hope. We were dying of the winter. It had been too long without the sun and only the moons.

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*tonare May 9, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

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Great work.

*soulburn3d May 12, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks tonare, always happy to be included.

~JoePingleton Jan 22, 2013 Filmographer

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*soulburn3d Jan 22, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks Joe!

*Colourbrand Jan 2, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Good choice of story and like the simplicity of the scene - love the moons especially. How long did it take you to do?

*soulburn3d Jan 2, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Glad you like it. It didn't take me too long, maybe 2-3 hours, although I started painting a different painting and then decided to scrap it and do this one, it was a little simpler but I felt it was more powerful. Glad the simple worked for you

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