This picture was done in gouache on 18x24 watercolour paper. I made it for a contest that Kalamte is having. To view the work of the other contestants just click here : [link] : Unfortunately my camera doesn't seem to capture the shades of grey that well, and the lighting effect I was going for didn't quite come out the way I wanted it too, but that's life. And now onto the description.

Oh God I remember the city. I remember the daily grind, the traffic jams, the smog, the countless strangers trying to go about their day with as little human interaction as posible. That was my life, that rat race; trying to get ahead at the expense of others. The office gossip, who did what with whom. The office politics, who to stab in the back to get a promotion. The souless, joyless work and living from paycheque to paycheque because no matter how many raises I got, no matter how much I made I had to present a certain face to the world so I could fit the profile of what my 'superiors' thought a company man should be. Lord forgive the man who showed up in anything less than a $2000.00 Armani suit; didn't matter how well he did his job, he was going nowhere. This life was killing me, hell it did kill me, killed my soul, but then a miracle happened and I was reborn. Reborn in the country.

The lush fields and meadows, the wonderful forests, they were a balm to my soul! I would wake up every morning and smell the dew on the grass and think that nothing ever smelled so sweet. No more hustle and bustle for me. No more rat race, no more stress, no more smog. I was happier than I had ever been and the world was more fabulous than I had ever imagined. There was one problem though, wolves, and now I'm surrounded. I feel my heart race as I stare around me at the pack that is slowly closing in. I feel panick at my iminent demise and think that somehow it was unfair to be reborn... a deer.