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I know how the Moon must feelby ~steamby51

Digital Art / Drawings / Illustrations / Storybook

Was listening to the Dayna Manning song "I know how the moon must feel", and this just popped into my head, needed to draw it as soon as possible before it escaped. This is an MS paint picture, almost all entirely freehand save some straight lines and some mirror-image pasing on the steam engine to maker her completely front-end symmetrical.

I must say I am pleased with it, the semi-destroyed telephone pole and building were the only afterthoughts.

Basically a man who lost his wife long ago to an illness after a happy marriage, still loved her like the first day all throughout. Also fighting to preserve steam engines, he sold the quilting business he and his wife ran together after she died and retired, using the substantial sum from the sale to finally restore an old wreck he had acquired long ago, 4-10-0 number 73. An old engine from 1905, he had found half-sunk in the harbor out by the jetty when he and his wife were leaving port for britain years earlier. Upon his return, he hired out the town derrick to lift out the locomotive and tender and had them placed in his yard, doing installments of work as time permitted.
Now, with his wife having been missing for six years, and 73 having been in running condition for five, he has fallen into a routine. The town's streetcar system had long since shut down, and it cost a measely five-hundred dollars to buy the tracks and rights to run on them. Every day he takes 73 winding through the town and the next town, taking it upon himself to deliver the mail and some groceries, and then at twilight, rolls the engine down the branch which goes towards the harbor and out onto the bleak old rock jetty, near the old telegraph station and the lighthouse. Here, he fishes, and wonders if his wife is up there in that wonderous lavender sky. 73 sits nearby and watches over him, a steady heartbeat ticking from her two duplex air-pumps.
Somewhere up in that sky, his wife drifts in the clouds, and watches him.

~0144 Feb 17, 2012 Student Photographer

this was ms paint
no
wha

*CRIES FOREVER*
THIS IS AMAZING

FEEL PROUD OF YURSELF

~steamby51 Feb 17, 2012

dahaha, thanks

~RontheHedgehog Feb 8, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow, man. Nobody should be this good with MS Paint. You've got talent!

Hey, if you're interested, I did a piano rendition of the song a while back: [link]

~steamby51 Feb 8, 2012

Thank you, and in my opinion it really didn't need the drums

~RontheHedgehog Feb 8, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

eh. I've been meaning to post a piano-only version. Never got around to it. (I think I've used that excuse more times than I can count)

~Joel-Swedish-Dragon Aug 7, 2011

Such an awesome pic, man!.. :]

~steamby51 Aug 7, 2011

thanks mate

~Joel-Swedish-Dragon Aug 7, 2011

Welcomes, mate. (Sorry for haven't been around.. >.<; )

~Dunrobin Mar 18, 2011

Very nice! Wonderful art! I like the blue hues and lavender. Good story too!

~steamby51 Mar 18, 2011

many thanks!

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